WNBA faces ridicule for celebrating 'Transgender Day of Visibility'

The WNBA connected Monday faced ridicule for celebrating "Transgender Day of Visibility" arsenic the contented of transgender athletes participating successful girls’ and women’s sports became a hot-button issue.

The league posted connected X astir its enactment for transgender people. It coincided with the last time of women’s past month.

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The WNBA logo connected a shot during the 4th fourth of crippled 1 of the WNBA finals betwixt the Seattle Storm and the Washington Mystics astatine KeyArena. (Jennifer Buchanan-USA TODAY Sports)

"Today and each twelvemonth connected March 31, we observe Transgender Day of Visibility," the league said. "We grant the strength, courage, and resilience of transgender radical and the transgender community.

"We spot you, we basal with you, and we volition proceed to enactment you."

The station sparked reactions from women’s sports advocates who person championed Title IX and the efforts to support biologic males retired of girls’ and women’s sports.

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A idiosyncratic waves a transgender pridefulness emblem during the People's March and rally to the Lincoln Memorial successful Washington, D.C., connected Jan. 18, 2025. (Nathan Morris/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The WNBA’s station came much than a period aft President Donald Trump signed the "No Men’s successful Women’s Sports" enforcement bid successful February. The NCAA changed its gender-participation policy, but critics person pointed retired loopholes successful it.

The Trump medication has besides clashed with Maine schoolhouse officials for the state’s refusal to reverse its argumentation connected transgender athletes participating successful girls’ and women’s sports. The Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights referred to the state’s "noncompliance with Title IX."

There are nary players successful the WNBA who person transitioned from antheral to female. Layshia Clarendon came retired arsenic nonbinary successful 2020.

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Massachusetts, California and Washington person had controversies dealing with transgender athletes successful girls' precocious schoolhouse basketball.

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