Tennis great Martina Navratilova makes plea to 'keep women's sports female'

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Tennis icon Martina Navratilova has been a major proponent of fairness in women’s sports and on Tuesday spoke out again against transgender athletes competing in the female space.

Navratilova responded to posts about transgender women competing in an Australian soccer league. The Flying Bats FC, the club in question, won the Beryl Ackroyd Cup. The team also received a check for 1,000 Australian dollars for the victory.

"Been angry for years now- the unfairness is off the charts. I will say it again- keep women’s sports female. It is not the place for any (failed) male athletes," Navratilova wrote on X.

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The Flying Bats Football Club form a guard of honor during the A-League Women round 19 match between Sydney FC and Western United at Leichhardt Oval on March 9, 2024 in Sydney. (Jason McCawley/Getty Images)

The Flying Bats calls itself "Sydney’s premier LGBTQIA+ football club for women & non-binary people." However, the pushback was palpable on social media.

"Are you getting angry yet? Sky Australia contributor Katherine Deves Morgan wrote on X. "Five blokes on the winning women’s soccer team. Girls were threatened with fines if they forfeited. What a joke."

Navratilova has long been a supporter of keeping transgender athletes out of women’s sports.

Last March, she applauded World Athletics for developing an open category for transgender athletes. She wrote in an op-ed it was a "step in the right direction."

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Martina Navratilova during a joint press conference with Chris Evert of the USA, on Day 5 of the GNP Seguros WTA