Women’s tennis legend Martina Navratilova weighed in on the sudden trans athletecontroversy in Gavin Newsom’s California, with the girls’ high school track and field championships coming up.
A trans athlete is set tocompete in the girls’ tournamentthis year, afterwinning multiple state finals lastyear. California is continuing to let biological males compete in girls’ sports under Newsom’s leadership, prompting criticism from many activists.
Navratilova cheered on two gold-medal-winning women’s Olympians who spoke out against Newsom on Friday.
The tennis legend shared a Fox News Digital article of women’s Olympic gold medalists Nancy Hogshead and Kaillie Humphries addressing the track and field controversy.
“Right on Nancy!!! We are just built different!!!” Navratilova wrote in an X post sharing the article.
In a response to the post, Navratilova argued to another user that Newsom could take action to protect girls’ sports in California.
“Newsom could overturn this in a second. No excuse,” Navratilova wrote.
In a later post on Saturday, Navratilova re-sharednews that the trans athlete, representing Jurupa Valley High School, is seeded first in the upcoming tournament.
“Cheating… which at the moment the rules allow. Thanks for nothing [Gavin Newsom],” Navratilova wrote.
Navratilova, like Hogshead, is a vocal advocate for protecting women’s sports despite supporting Democrats on other issues.
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