The WNBA celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility Monday, and one in all its coaches appeared to take a shot at President Donald Trump.
Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve issued a press release saying there have been “govt and legislative assaults” on transgender individuals.
“On this transgender visibility day, a time of escalating govt and legislative assaults making an attempt to disclaim healthcare, schooling and fundamental freedoms; a time of epidemic violence, notably in opposition to black and brown trans ladies — we have a good time trans and non-binary individuals in all places. You might be seen and liked,” Reeve’s assertion stated
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Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve reacts throughout the second half of Sport 5 of a 2024 WNBA playoff collection in opposition to the Connecticut Solar at Goal Heart. (Matt Krohn/Imagn Photographs)
The group additionally posted a photograph of Reeve carrying a shirt that stated “Shield trans children.”
The league posted on X about its assist for transgender individuals. It coincided with the ultimate day of ladies’s historical past month. The put up sparked reactions from ladies’s sports activities advocates who’ve championed Title IX and the efforts to maintain organic males out of women and girls’s sports activities.
4 years to the day of Reeve’s assertion and the group’s put up, Reeve wrote an op-ed in Sports activities Illustrated, “We All Win When Trans Athletes Are Included.”
Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve watches from the sideline in opposition to the Connecticut Solar throughout Sport 4 of the 2024 WNBA semifinals at Mohegan Solar Enviornment. (David Butler II/Imagn Photographs)
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“After we welcome all lady athletes, together with transgender lady athletes, to deliver their full genuine selves to the sport, we’re stronger as particular person gamers and as a group,” she wrote. “Transgender exclusion pits lady athletes in opposition to each other, reinforces the dangerous notion that there’s just one proper option to be a lady and distracts us from the actual threats to ladies’s sports activities.”
Reeve additionally wrote {that a} transgender powerlifter banned from competing “merely can not stand.”
The WNBA celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility greater than a month after Trump signed the “No Males in Ladies’s Sports activities” govt order in February. The NCAA modified its gender participation coverage, however critics have identified loopholes in it.
The Trump administration has additionally clashed with Maine faculty officers because of the state’s refusal to reverse its coverage on transgender athletes collaborating in women and girls’s sports activities. The Well being and Human Providers Workplace of Civil Rights referred to the state’s “noncompliance with Title IX.”
Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve talks to the media earlier than Sport 4of the 2024 WNBA Finals in opposition to the New York Liberty at Goal Heart. (Matt Krohn/Imagn Photographs)
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There are not any gamers within the WNBA who’ve transitioned from male to feminine. Layshia Clarendon got here out as nonbinary in 2020.
Fox Information’ Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
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