Nine-time Wimbledon singles champion Navratilova has long opposed allowing transgender female competitors to take part in women's sports - calling them 'failed male athletes'.
Barker says she backs Wimbledon and BBC legend Sue Barker has backed calls for a ban on self-identified trans women competing against biological females in sport.
Her comments come following controversies over transgender female participants such as US swimmer Lia Thomas, Welsh cyclist Emily Bridges and Dutch darts player Noa-Lynn van Leuven. When asked by the Telegraph whether she agreed with Navratilova's stance on self-ID in sport, Barker said: 'I just think you take away the young girls' dreams, so I am definitely with Navratilova.'Critics of people who were born biologically male competing compete in women's sports also include British former Olympians Daley Thompson and Sharron Davies.
Last year she sided with World Athletics for pushing for a policy omitting transgender female athletes from internationally-recognised women's competitions, calling it a 'step in the right direction'. Read More Martina Navratilova blasts US Tennis Association after transgender star Alicia Rowley won women's national tournament and claims the sport is 'not for failed male athletes' 'The overriding sporting objective is and remains the guarantee of fair competition. Restrictions on participation are appropriate to the extent that they are necessary and proportionate to the achievement of this objective.
Thomas had become in 2022 became the first trans-athlete to win the women's NCAA college swimming title - the USA's most prestigious college title. Thomas - who swam for Pennsylvania's men's team for three seasons before beginning hormone replacement therapy in early 2019 - asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn the rule change.
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