Tennis: Australian great Court hits out at LGBTI education, trans athletes


  • Tennis
  • Monday, 30 Dec 2019

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian tennis great Margaret Court has launched a tirade against transgender athletes and called the teaching of LGBTI materials at schools the work of the "devil" in a fiery sermon at her Perth church.

Court, a Christian pastor at the Victory Life Church she set up decades ago, made the incendiary comments just weeks before she is to be honoured at the Australian Open on the 50th anniversary of her calendar Grand Slam.

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