{"id":339339,"date":"2025-12-10T11:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339339\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:57:07","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-says-its-not-fair-to-face-transgender-women-in-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/339339\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka says it&#8217;s not fair to face transgender women in tennis &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WTA World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka will face Nick Kyrgios in an exhibition match in Dubai on December 28, labelled as the fourth edition of the &#8220;Battle of the Sexes&#8221;, a series of exhibition matches between a male and female elite tennis player that previously featured Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, Margaret Court, Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Piers Morgan, Sabalenka was asked about her opinion on the participation of transgender women in the women&#8217;s sport, which is something allowed by the WTA as long as have lowered their testosterone levels, submit to testing procedures and have declared themselves as female for at least four years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a tricky question. I have nothing against them. But I feel like they still got a huge advantage over the women and I think it&#8217;s not fair on women to face basically biological men&#8221;, said the Belarusian player, adding that &#8220;it&#8217;s not fair to a woman who has been working her whole life to reach her limit and then she has to face a man, who is biologically much stronger, so for me I don&#8217;t agree with this kind of stuff in sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiersUncensored\/status\/1998437888996888645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<p>Her views were echoed by Nick Kyrgios, who agreed with Sabalenka in the interview. This topic has led to different policies regarding the inclusion or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/the-us-olympic-committee-will-press-ioc-to-ban-transgenger-women-from-the-los-angeles-2028-olympic-games-1577143\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exclusion of transgender athletes<\/a> and has also divided players in the sport. Billie Jean King, winner of 12 singles Grand Slam who won the original &#8220;battle of the sexes&#8221; in 1973, claim that excluding transgender from women&#8217;s sport is discriminating.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Martina Navratilova, winner of 18 singles Grand Slams and a combined 59 majors including doubles and mixed doubles, and famous for her advocacy for women&#8217;s rights and LGBTQ+ rights, has said that trans women in women&#8217;s sports is &#8220;cheating&#8221; due to physical advantages that the transition process does not fully remove.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think on the debate on the inclusion of trans athletes in women&#8217;s sports?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1646723-4720243\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/02\/_4720243b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/02\/_4720243_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1646723','4720243',false,'30fad467b7363d55fa24b3398fdef557');\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Aryna Sabalenka says it's not fair to face transgender women in tennis\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-7ce43e0a5e353443192db4cc-=\"\"\/>Leonard Zhukovsky \/ Shutterstock.com<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WTA World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka will face Nick Kyrgios in an exhibition match in Dubai on December&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-339339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}