We know where the ESPN commentators stand on the issue of biological males in female sports after a Sunday broadcast, where the coverage of the game between the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx and the Indiana Fever devolved into a lecture on social justice.
The televised pandering came after Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve spoke to reporters on Saturday where she gave a fawning defense of transgenders and transgender children in sports. Reeve went on to wear a “Trans Kids Belong” T-shirt as her team faced Sophie Cunningham’s Indiana Fever on Sunday.
“What’s bothersome is that there’s a faction of people in our country that are making this a massive issue. We have some issues. Number one, we need to protect trans kids. Every kid, to me, it’s a human rights issue. Every kid has a right to sports, regardless of gender diverse, transgender, every kid has the right to access,” she told reporters on Saturday.
“Now, what gets nuanced is, you know when you’re beyond puberty, when you’re in Olympic sport, when you’re, we have scholarships at stake, that sort of thing. That’s where I say that common-sensee people get together and define common ground to find a way to be inclusive. The answer isn’t no.”
“It is not the case that we have quote biological men in girls’ locker rooms,” she further claimed, arguing that it’s discriminatory to speak about men using female locker rooms and bathrooms. “The way it’s being phrased, the innuendo there that somehow transgender women are predators of some kind in the locker room. There’s a lot of narrative that is problematic that we need to address. That is simply not what’s happening. I think we can take on the issue, there are more and more transgenders in our country as years go by.”
Reeve then suggested that girls protesting at games with “anti-trans signs” don’t truly understand the “real problems” after slamming “cisgender men that have held us down for years in spaces like being able to have access to facilities and uniforms and locker rooms.”
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And ESPN ate it up. During a broadcast of the game, the sports pundits took a moment to applaud Reeve’s disgusting shirt, promoting “trans kids,” and to portray her as the bigger man for speaking to Sophie Cunningham pregame. They appeared to portray Cunningham as the antagonist for standing up against boys and men in girls’ and women’s sports, recently saying she wants to “protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”
“And yesterday Cheryl Reeves spent a lot of time talking at length with the media about this topic,” said one commentator.
Another commentator jumped in, opining on Reeve’s comments, adding, “I would encourage anyone to go and listen to Cheryl Reeve’s comments. Incredibly thoughtful, easy to find online, and just encourage anyone to go and listen.”
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The Gateway Pundit reported on Reeve’s comments, as well as the refusal by Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White and Portland Fire coach Alex Sarama to speak out against the hypothetical question of men competing in the Women’s National Basketball Association.
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