The WNBA celebrated the transgender visibility day on Monday, and one of its coaches seemed to shoot President Donald Trump.
Minnesota Lynx chief coach, Cheryl Reeve, issued a statement saying that there have been “executive and legislative attacks” in transgender people.
“On this day of transgender visibility, a moment of growing executive and legislative attacks that try to deny medical attention, education and basic freedoms; a time of epidemic violence, particularly against black and brown trans women: we celebrate trans and non -binary people everywhere. You are seen and loved,” said the Reeve statement.
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Minnesota Lynx chief coach, Cheryl Reeve, reacts during the second half of game 5 of a 2024 WNBA playoff series against the Connecticut Sun in Target Center. (Matt Krohn/Imagn images)
The team also published a photo of Reeve with a shirt that said “protect trans children.”
The League published in X on its support for transgender people. It coincided with the last day of the month of the history of women. The post caused reactions of the defenders of women’s sports who have defended title IX and efforts to keep biological men out of female girls and sports.
Four years for the day of the Reeve statement and the publication of the team, Reeve wrote an opinion article in Sports Illustrated: “We all win when trans athletes are included.”
Minnesota Lynx chief coach, Cheryl Reeve, observes from the lateral line against the Connecticut Sun during game 4 of the 2024 WNBA semifinals in Mohegan Sun Arena. (David Butler II/Imagn images)
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“When we welcome all women athletes, including transgender women athletes, to bring their authentic being to the game, we are stronger as individual players and as a team,” he wrote. “Transgender exclusion faces women athletes with each other, reinforces the harmful notion that there is only one correct way to be a woman and distracts us from real threats to women’s sports.”
Reeve also wrote that a transgender Powerlifter forbade to compete “simply can’t stand.”
The WNBA celebrated the day of transgender visibility more than a month after Trump signed the executive order of “No Men In Women’s Sports” in February. NCAA changed its gender participation policy, but critics have Lagoons pointed out in him.
The Trump administration has also faced Maine school officials Due to the state’s refusal to reverse its transgender athletes policy that participate in sports of girls and women. The Office of Civil Rights of Health and Human Services referred to the “breach of the State with Title IX”.
Minnesota Lynx chief coach, Cheryl Reeve, talks to the media before game 4 of the WNBA of 2024 against the freedom of New York in Target Center. (Matt Krohn/Imagn images)
There are no players in the WNBA who have made the transition from men to women. Layshia Clarendon came out as non -binary in 2020.
