How the Media Turned the WNBA Into a Culture War (ft. Kate Riga)
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham made her initial comments about “protecting young girls” in women’s sports to an ESPN.com writer in July.
The rest of the summer devolved into a moral panic, the likes of which the WNBA had never seen.
The league doesn’t know what to do with its new transphobia problem—or its old anti-Blackness problem. Doing nothing continues to fuel the right-wing ecosystem in which reactionary media capture every anti-trans or racist remark, gesture, or blatant stunt, notwithstanding there aren’t any trans players in the WNBA.
Fox News and innumerable conservative…
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