{"id":1920296,"date":"2023-04-27T16:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-fair-tennis-legend-blows-up-at-lia-thomas\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:44:14","slug":"its-not-fair-tennis-legend-blows-up-at-lia-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-not-fair-tennis-legend-blows-up-at-lia-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Not Fair\u2019: Tennis Legend Blows Up At Lia Thomas"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fits-not-fair-tennis-legend-blows-up-at-lia-thomas%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=1920296&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--><h2>Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Claps Back at Transgender Athlete Lia Thomas<\/h2>\n<p>Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has responded to transgender athlete Lia Thomas after the swimmer accused critics of pushing \u201ctransphobic beliefs\u201d under the \u201cguise of feminism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Navratilova took to Twitter to respond to a TMZ headline that read, \u201cLIA THOMAS Fires Back At Critics \u2026YOU\u2019RE USING \u2018FEMINISM\u2019 TO HIDE TRANSPHOBIA!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lia Thomas Says Her Critics Using &#8216;Feminism&#8217; Claims To Hide Transphobia- NEWSFLASH Lia- it\u2019s not fair. We shouldn\u2019t have to explain it to you over and over. Also- stop explaining feminism to feminists\u2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vZxEva3rm2\">https:\/\/t.co\/vZxEva3rm2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Martina Navratilova (@Martina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Martina\/status\/1651276033994244101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLia Thomas Says Her Critics Using \u2018Feminism\u2019 Claims To Hide Transphobia,\u201d Navratilova wrote. \u201cNEWSFLASH Lia \u2014 it\u2019s not fair. We shouldn\u2019t have to explain it to you over and over. Also \u2014 stop explaining feminism to feminists\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a podcast, Thomas said, \u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, we respect Lia, as a woman, as a trans woman or whatever, we respect her identity, we just don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t really have that sort of half-support where you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, I respect her as a woman here, but not here,&#8217;\u201d the swimmer added. \u201cThey are using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Navratilova\u2019s Stance on Transgender Athletes<\/h3>\n<p>Navratilova has been an outspoken advocate for the LGBT community and has previously spoken out about how unfair it is for women to compete against male athletes in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy op-ed for the Sunday Times of London, Navratilova said that regardless of a male athlete undergoing hormone treatment for a gender transition, they still have a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLetting men compete as women simply if they change their name and take hormones is unfair \u2014 no matter how those athletes may throw their weight around,\u201d Navratilova wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo put the argument at its most basic: a man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organization is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires,\u201d she added. \u201c\u2026 It\u2019s insane and it\u2019s cheating. I am happy to address a transgender woman in whatever form she prefers, but I would not be happy to compete against her. It would not be fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tennis-legend-martina-navratilova-says-allowing-emily-zanotti\">Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Says Allowing Trans Men To Compete Against Women Is \u2018Insane\u2019 And \u2018Cheating\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis legend Martina Navratilova lashed out at biological male transgender athlete Lia Thomas after the swimmer said critics are pushing \u201ctransphobic beliefs\u201d under the \u201cguise of feminism.\u201d The 66-year-old responded on Twitter on Wednesday to a TMZ headline that read, \u201cLIA THOMAS Fires Back At Critics \u2026YOU\u2019RE USING \u2018FEMINISM\u2019 TO HIDE TRANSPHOBIA!!!\u201d \u201cLia Thomas Says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1920297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8234,9595,6550,9610,18195,9609,10215],"class_list":["post-1920296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-blows","tag-fair","tag-its","tag-legend","tag-lia","tag-tennis","tag-thomas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}