Tennis legend Martina Navratilova came out and defended a coach seen at the 2024 US Open wearing a hat from a pro-women athletic brand that’s faced accusations of being “transphobic.”
In a post on Friday on X, Navratilova wrote that it is not “hate” to show support for only women in female sports, and she shared the headline from Sportskeeda that read, “New controversy at US Open as Aryna Sabalenka’s fitness coach Jason Stacy comes under fire for donning hat from pro-women brand ‘XX-XY Athletics.’”
“Thank you Jason [Stacy] for supporting women’s sports- being pro women is not hate, it’s actually progressive,” the tennis legend wrote.
XX-XY Athletics derives its name from the chromosomes XY for males and XX for females. The brand was founded by former Levi president Jennifer Sey. The mission statement on the company’s website reads, “Introducing the only…
