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"Truth doesn't work" says Martina Navratilova, rules out career in poltiics and running for office
ATPWednesday, 06 December 2023 at 22:30
Martina
Navratilova has ruled out the possibility of a political career in the future,
stating that she might have considered running if she were 20 years younger.
The 18-times Grand Slam champion also expressed the belief that her outspoken
honesty might be tolerated in a man but not in a woman.
In an
interview on the podcast "On with Kara Swisher," Navratilova
discussed her interest in politics but acknowledged that, at 67 years old, she
is not inclined to pursue a political office:
"I am.
I’ve been asked many times. But I think truth doesn’t work in politics you know
I speak my mind way too much. I think maybe as a guy you can get away with it
but as a woman, I just don’t know, but I think I am too old for that.”
“20 years
ago, I wish I…, if I was 20 years younger I would run. But I don’t have the
energy for it now, and the skin. Really it’s just too nasty," Navratilova
said on the podcast.
Kara
Swisher inquired about Martina Navratilova's political stance, particularly
given her outspoken opposition to transgender athletes participating in women's
sports categories. Navratilova discussed the athletic advantage she believes
transgender athletes might have due to higher levels of testosterone,
emphasizing that her position on this issue doesn't align with conservative
ideologies.
“When you
are thinking about this — because one of the things you are very clearly is
political on Twitter, especially anti–Donald Trump, anti-GOP, I would say. Is
it strange to you to be in the same political space as this group, which is
obviously using it for cynical purposes? Does that worry you?” Swisher askerd
“You know,
even a stopped clock is right twice a day. But again, the reason why we agree
are two completely different reasons. So, I don’t know what to say other than I
am a bleeding-heart liberal. I admire people that go against the grain. But my
North Star is fairness, and male bodies in women’s sports are not fair, and
that’s my North Star. And I cannot budge from that,” claimed Navratilova.
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