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Anna Wintour used her keynote speech at the Australian Open in Melbourne today to volley criticism at both Australian tennis great Margaret Court and the country's prime minister Scott Morrison over their conservative positions on LGBT issues She went on to express concerns over the name of the Margaret Court Arena, the second largest venue at the Australian Open A campaign has been launched to rename the arena due to Court's negative commentary in mid-2017 about the LGBT community, notably on the topics of same-sex marriage, which was legalized in Australia in December of that year, and transgender children.
Court has called discussions regarding the latter the work of "The devil." "Intolerance has no place in tennis," said Wintour, echoing sentiments previously expressed about Court, and the arena's name, by athletes including Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova "Margaret Court was a champion on the court, but a meeting point for players of all nations preferences and backgrounds should celebrate somebody who was a champion off the court as well," she added Court, a 24-time Grand Slam singles winner, was ordained as a full-time independent Pentecostal minister in 1991.
Wintour then addressed Morrison and the coalition government's position on religious freedom in Australian schools, a review of which is at the center of a fierce, ongoing debate in Australia. . Source