Garbine Muguruza Defends Aryna Sabalenka’s Claims on Transgender Athletes

Aryna Sabalenka threw a bombshell on transgender athletes in the Piers Morgan uncensored show.

Garbine Muguruza Defends Aryna Sabalenka’s Claims on Transgender Athletes

Garbine Muguruza and Aryna Sabalenka (via Tennis.com)

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The former World No. 1 Garbine Muguruza isn’t holding back, joining Aryna Sabalenka in a heated debate about biology, fairness, and the reality of facing opponents who are just built differently. The tennis world is rarely quiet. Between broken rackets, umpire arguments, and the occasional Twitter feud, there’s always something brewing.

But lately, the conversation has shifted from baseline tactics to something much heavier: the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports. It’s a topic that usually makes PR teams sweat, but some players are just deciding to rip the band-aid off.

Just days after current powerhouse Sabalenka dropped her thoughts on the matter (and stirred up the internet in the process), retired Spanish star Muguruza has stepped up to the mic. She said on COPE:

Men’s superiority isn’t just based on power, but also on physical endurance, musculature, many things. I remember never being able to beat my brothers, and then I also had male sparring partners, who weren’t professionals, and I never managed to take a set off them. A guy who’s ranked 1000th in the world or who doesn’t even have a ranking can be far superior to a top 10 WTA player. When I was at my best, as world number 1, I wouldn’t have even beaten a junior.

This is one of the best women to ever hold a racket, admitting that a random guy ranked #987 could likely outplay her. It puts the whole “advantage” argument into a pretty stark perspective.

The Aryna Sabalenka spark that started the fire

Before one gets to Muguruza’s mic-drop moments, one has to look at what kicked this whole hornet’s nest. Aryna Sabalenka, known for hitting the ball harder than most people drive cars, recently sat down with Piers Morgan.

Aryna Sabalenka (4)
Aryna Sabalenka (Image via X/Wimbledon)

When asked about trans women competing in biological women’s categories, Sabalenka didn’t dance around the issue. She admitted it’s a “tricky question” but ultimately landed on the side of biological reality. Her take? It’s just not fair.

Well that’s a tricky question. I have nothing to do against them but I feel like they still got huge advantage over the woman and I think it’s just not fair to a woman to basically face like the biological man. And then it’s, you know, it’s not fair like the woman has been working the whole life to reach her limit and then she has to face like a man (who is) biologically much stronger. So for me, I don’t agree with this kind of stuff in sports.

It was a bold take in today’s climate, but one that clearly resonated with others in the locker room, including a certain two-time Grand Slam champion.

The debate that won’t die

This isn’t just Muguruza and Sabalenka shouting into the void, either. Martina Navratilova, arguably one of the greatest to ever do it, has been beating this drum for years. She’s faced plenty of backlash for it, but she’s never backed down.

Aryna Sabalenka and Martina Navratilova
Aryna Sabalenka and Martina Navratilova (via Tennis365)

Unsurprisingly, when Navratilova saw Sabalenka’s comments, she hit up X (formerly Twitter) with a simple, “Thank you Aryna!” It seems the old guard and the new guard are finding some common ground here.

It’s easy to dismiss these comments as “hateful” or “exclusionary” if one just reads the headlines, but when one listens to the athletes themselves, there is a genuine concern for the integrity of the competition they’ve dedicated their lives to. They aren’t saying trans people shouldn’t play sports; they’re saying that biology doesn’t care about feelings, and in a game of inches and split-second reactions, testosterone and bone density matter.

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