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.

Wow what a pathetic spineless whitewash that was. Really disappointed in Martina...

On the Mark Lawson drama on R4 someone said that no transman in their right mind would dream of competing against men - absolutely true.

Charlie feels that transitioning has improved Charlie’s performance... and the Le Mans circuit drivers consist of Charlie and lots of men. No females. How exactly does this help with women’s progress in the sport?

I had to rewrite that about four times to get it to make sense without breaking the rules.

That's disappointing littlbrowndog

Just thinking about Charlie and the motor-racing - that would only be interesting if Charlie was originally female and transitioned to male.

They didn't ask any female athletes that compete in sport at the moment what they thought. It was so bloody one sided.

Another woman made to publicly disavow her heresy and genuflect to males.

Very disappointing.

On the whole a lot stronger than I was expecting, given the limitations of the BBC.

I think the only fair way for trans women to compete in sport is against other trans women. There should be male, female, trans and para.

Also if I was a trans woman, I wouldn't want to compete against women as I would know I would have such an advantage, it's cheating, pure and simple. I wouldn't feel I would have won fair and square.

It's the BBC. Frankly I'm amazed they let it go out at all. I think it may have opened a few eyes. I didn't hope for more than that.

I can't watch as I don't pay for a TV license, but it sounds typical of the BBC from what I've read here.

I was outraged at that man (who didn't look like he could win an egg & spoon race) lecturing MARTINA NAVRATILOVA on sporting competition. Women's sport will be different in 10 years - yeah it will with no born women in it. I wonder why she didn't wipe the floor with the smug twat.

No Martina you don't need to evolve. She looked so sad, too.

It's like that bit in the stepford wives when the rebellious woman gets lobotomised.

Predictably, ever so BBC 'balanced.'

Best wishes for the academics at Loughborough collecting a proper sample spread of data.

could have done without 'assigned at birth.'

8/10

V disappointed in the lame conclusion at the end, I expected Martina to stick it to 'em - nope, let's all play nicely and 'evolve'.

It was crap mostly.

Some dudes whining about sport and inclusivity

To be balanced we need more women talking about women in sport

So
My thoughts were it was crap.

And my take from this was as a bystander with no skin in this why are all these men so desperate to get in women’s sport

Shit ending

Glad I didn’t watch it. The BBC has lost the plot.

I'm surprised some people were expecting anything else from the BBC.

Are there actually any men (born women) who have transitioned competing in male sport?

Nothing at all was mentioned about self identifying transwomen who have no intention of taking hormones or having surgery. Missing the point of self ID completely.

I agree the ending was a complete cop out.

On the plus side it will probably shock the demographic that don't do social media but do tend to watch the BBC on an evening. I'm picturing a lot of WTF faces.

I was so hoping that this wasn't going to go that way. I don't know why I expected better.

Martina thinks transwoman are women
Caster Semenya is not trans
Engines and cars are not people
Psychologists are not endocrinologists
Testosterone is a red herring

So sick of this shit.