The Face of the Anti-Trans Sports Panic

The WNBA is the Reductio ad Absurdum of Trans Ideology

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has perhaps done more to demonstrate the absurdity of transgender ideology than any American public institution. And it has done so through its endorsement of that very ideology. Over the [...]

A trans panic is sweeping the WNBA. Actual trans people are not involved at all.

For the past few weeks, the right has been mounting a crusade against trans women in the WNBA. It started with Sophie Cunningham’s comments in a July 21 interview and has grown into a full moral panic, with a growing list of prominent conservatives expressing their opposition to trans rights. It has gotten so much attention on the right that even Fox hosts are complaining about covering it. Two former NBA players threatened legal action if they …

Creep of the Week: The Anti-Trans Mob

When I was in elementary school, my twin sister and I played in a youth soccer league. We were the only girls on an otherwise all-boys team. Now, I don’t know how or why this happened. I do not know if this was a league where boys and girls played together on the same teams or if our dad talked our way onto a boys’ team (which is something he probably would have done, overstating our talent and abilities, but I can’t ask him because he is dead).…

Leo Varadkar's crusade against the anti-trans "authoritarians"

JASON OSBORNE: The “authoritarians” are opposing men in women’s sports, according to Leo Varadkar. That’s some label for concerned parents.

Sophie Cunningham Is the Anti-Trans Right's New White Woman Mascot

By coming out against transgender athletes, the player has become the far right's new white woman spokesperson—a position with a long legacy.

The face of the anti-trans sports panic

The anti-trans movement in sports needed a face. It found one in the WNBA player