Alongside Davies, the other high-profile sportswoman who has said most is tennis legend Martina Navratilova. She was one of the first lesbian athletes ever to come out, and is obviously not transphobic in any meaningful sense: she is close to Renée Richards, who coached her for years. But even Navratilova is called a bigot for recognising male sporting advantage. She stumbled into the controversy in 2018, when she discovered that sporting federations were switching to self-ID. ‘You can’t just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women,’ she tweeted. ‘There must be some
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