In a third post, Navratilova wrote: "It’s outrageous and so wrong. We don’t need to change or re- write history when it comes to anyone’s accomplishments but we do not need to celebrate them. Margaret Court is hiding behind her Bible as many have done before her and will do after her. Let’s not keep elevating it." In November, Court demanded to be formally welcomed to Melbourne Park after Tennis Australia earlier in the year feted Rod Laver for his half-century grand slam anniversary. Tennis Australia was torn over how to commemorate Court, whose opposition to homosexuality and gay marriage has made her a polarising figure among contemporary players and influential women such as Billie Jean King and Navratilova. Navratilova, a vocal activist for LGBT rights for decades who came out in 1981, had previously said that while she was wholeheartedly supportive of "pro-trans people or any part of the spectrum", transgender women competing in women's sport was "insane" and "cheating".

"It's insane and it's cheating. I am happy to address a transgender woman in whatever form she prefers, but I would not be happy to compete against her. It would not be fair," Navratilova wrote in the Sunday Times in an opinion article in February 2019. But after filming the documentary The Trans Women Athlete Dispute With Martina Navratilova for the BBC in the middle of last year, Navratilova said she now had greater sympathy for transgender women athletes, although still believed they had a physical advantage and apologised for her "cheating" comment. "What I have come to realise, the biggest thing for me, is just the level of difficulty trans people go through cannot be underestimated," Navratilova said in the documentary. "The fight for equality and recognition is just huge." She also said: "I hurt people with my comments – that bothers me. I campaigned all my life for LGBT rights.

Loading Later she added in the documentary: "That being said, still for me the most important thing in sports – and we have to remember trans rights and elite sport are two different things, although of course they are connected – what's the right way to set the rules so that everybody feels like they have a fighting chance?" Court again asserted her controversial views on transgender children and how trans women were "problematic" in the sporting arena. "Because we are living in a season ... even that LGBT and the schools – it's of the devil, it's not of God ... And when children are making the decision at seven or eight years of age to change their sex ... no, just read the first two chapters of Genesis, that's all I say. Male and female," Court said. "It's so wrong at that age because a lot of things are planted in this thought realm at that age. And they start to question 'What am I?' and if you are a Christian ... you believe the word of God, this is our TV guide to life.