Martina Navratilova to front BBC1 transgender athletes doc

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I knew she was making a documentary but I didn't know it was for the BBC. Bit wary now of what she'll be allowed to say.

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The tennis star and gay rights campaigner is to front Brook Lapping’s 60-minute doc Trans Athletes: A Fair Playing Field?, which will air next month.

In February, Navratilova was roundly criticised by trans and equality activists for stating that allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sporting tournaments was “insane and cheating”. She subsequently said she would do more research on the matter.

For the doc, Navratilova will speak with the athletes, scientists and sporting officials at the forefront of the debate, including former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies, who said in March that transgender athletes could “ruin women’s sport”.

She will also meet trans medical physicist and former runner Joanna Harper, who will explain how her run times dropped by more than 10% following her transition.

A sociologist. I want to hear from a biologist or a medic! What about women's safety?

So far this is awful. Men deciding what is fair for women.

Oh, I didn't realise this was on now. I'm going to stick to Love Island I think...

Complete with atmospheric poor me music

Women's sports will be full of males in ten years time.

I dont think womens sports will look the same!! 😲 😡

This man's a prat. Go on, Martina! It's not just a case of women needing to try harder. FGS.

I've turned over.

What a load of crap. Men needing their voices to be heard the loudest.

"Women's sports will look different" yes, it will look like men's sports ffs

Great womens sport will basically be mens sport then.

She appears to be the argument against on her own.....not sure that’s a bad thing.....

Ellis fucking Cashmore. Wankhead.

Just watched a couple of mins - the public aren't going to buy this shite are they?

'I don't think women's sports will look the same in 10 years time' - No because it'll be all male bodied people competing with each other. What an arse.

Glad she disagreed with him finally! What a twat

Martina is great. That man though ‘woman’s sport won’t look the same’ and people are just supposed to accept that?! Because the white mans spoken.

I am absolutely fucking sick of white middle class middle aged men telling us what will happen to us.

Women's sport won't look the same, but men's sport will! And women need to just try harder.

Does anyone remember the woman on Woman's Hour who said that? Pretty sure she was at Birmingham Uni.

Can't bear to watch it.

She's been so brave to put her head above the parapet but the BBC are absolute cunts!!

I can't believe women in us are going denied scholarships because of a trans woman winning their place. Shocking.

Yay here comes Sharron.

If the BBC do a number on Martina I will be cancelling my tv license pronto.

Ooh Sharon Davis is great!

Basically Elias Cashmore is going to put an end to women's sport.

Sharon Davis says how it really is...at last some balance.