{"id":1388042,"date":"2022-03-18T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388042"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:30:07","slug":"martina-navratilova-lia-thomas-should-have-an-asterisk-next-to-his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/martina-navratilova-lia-thomas-should-have-an-asterisk-next-to-his-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Martina Navratilova: Lia Thomas Should Have An &#039;Asterisk&#039; Next to His Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmartina-navratilova-lia-thomas-should-have-an-asterisk-next-to-his-name%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388042&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Tennis icon\u00a0Martina Navratilova said that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological man living as a woman, should have an \u201casterisk\u201d next to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with News Nation,\u00a0Navratilova, an openly lesbian woman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/martina-navratilova-lia-thomas-wins-should-have-an-asterisk\">said<\/a> that the asterisk would be a qualifier if Thomas or others like him suddenly start smashing records and beating women left and right.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lia Thomas goes 4:33:82 in the 500 prelims at the NCAA Championships which is a new top time in the nation this year. <\/p>\n<p>Pat Forde&#8217;s Olympian daughter has her work cut out for her later tonight in the finals. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QLbsHgMDKB\">pic.twitter.com\/QLbsHgMDKB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Kinsey (@JoeKinseyexp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeKinseyexp\/status\/1504470273910665219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about excluding transgender women from winning ever,\u201d said the 59-time Grand Slam champion. \u201cBut it is about not allowing them to win when they were not anywhere near winning as men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou try to keep it as close as possible to what it would had been, were you born in the female biological body in the first place,\u201d Navratilova continued. \u201cAnd even saying that, people take exception to \u2013 biological female. People don\u2019t even want to use those words. I don\u2019t know what else to say. Other than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Navratilova said a solution might be allowing them to compete but not allowing them to take home the gold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the rules are not correct. But right now, the rules are what they are,\u201d she said. \u201cMaybe put an asterisk there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in the future maybe there should be an open category for everyone, and then for biological females,\u201d she added. \u201cSo trans women can compete, but they\u2019ll compete against men.bAnd trans men have a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Transgender UPenn Swimmer Lia Thomas. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Navratilova said this would allow biological men and women to compete against each other in their own category while allowing others to compete in the \u201copen\u201d category.<\/p>\n<p>Navratilova\u2019s suggestions came just as Thomas\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/17\/trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-beats-field-female-swimmers-to-win-national-championship\/\">beat out two<\/a> silver medal Olympians to win the 500 freestyle national championship in Atlanta, Georgia. Thomas concluded\u00a0the race with a season-best of 4:33.24, beating out female Virginia freshman swimmer Emma Weyant\u00a0(4:34.99) and Erica Sullivan, who won a silver medal in the 1500-meter freestyle at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic games. Finishing fourth was\u00a0Brooke Forde, who also won a silver at the Tokyo Games in a 4\u00d7200 freestyle relay race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis icon\u00a0Martina Navratilova said that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological man living as a woman, should have an \u201casterisk\u201d next to his name. 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