Oh no she “sparked controversy”

Yes, and?

Martina Navratilova Says Transgender Women Can’t Be Lesbians

Well of course they fucking can’t. Frying pans can’t be owls, cities can’t be paella, we could go on like this forever.

It’s The Advocate whining this whine. Not much of an advocate these days, is it.

Martina Navratilova, the renowned out tennis star, recently sparked controversy with her remarks on a tribute by Stonewall, a leading LGBTQ+ advocacy group in the U.K. Navratilova took to social media on Tuesday to voice her opposition to the inclusion of a transgender woman in Stonewall’s Lesbian Visibility tribute, bluntly writing, “a bloke cannot be a lesbian.”

Oooh how rude of her to be so blunt.

But we have to these days, don’t we. We’re surrounded by mystifications about who is what.

The former athlete continued her troubling commentary, “No matter what they say, no matter how they feel, no matter how much they try to convince us otherwise. A bloke≠ a lesbian.”

Troubling shmoubling. News flash: it’s a million times more troubling that formerly LGB outlets are now scolding people for not pretending that bloke over there is a laydee. What does lesbian or gay or straight even mean if people are not allowed to know which people are which sex?

She made the assertions in response to a video by Stonewall that promoted diversity and inclusion of lesbians from diverse backgrounds, including transgender women who identify as lesbians. 

Yeeah that’s cute but a man claiming to be a lesbian isn’t “from a diverse background”; he’s a man claiming to be a lesbian.

Her remarks, widely perceived as transphobic, have occurred amidst growing tensions and discussions about inclusivity within the LGBTQ+ community.

“Widely perceived” – well that’s easy to say, but how do you know? And how widely perceived as simply the truth are her remarks? And anyway why should we care? Lesbians and gays were once “widely perceived” as scary perverts, so what’s your point?

We know what their point is of course. To denounce and demonize and rebuke a lesbian for knowing that men are not lesbians. Pathetic.

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