Sophie Cunningham Reaffirms Ban on Men in Women's Sports as Instagram Post Fuels 4-Minute Backlash
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 24
Sophie Cunningham Reaffirms Ban on Men in Women's Sports as Instagram Post Fuels 4-Minute Backlash
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 24
Summary
Sophie Cunningham used Instagram on Thursday to restate her position with “I said what I said,” a day after repeating before reporters that excluding men from women’s sports was “common sense.”
ESPN comments earlier this week sparked the dispute after Cunningham said she wanted to protect girls in locker rooms and sports from competing against biological men.
A roughly 4-minute media scrum before Wednesday’s game against the Connecticut Sun turned the Indiana Fever guard into a focal point of WNBA debate, with Cunningham saying criticism wrongly cast her as anti-trans.
The flare-up widened attention around the league as Caitlin Clark separately drew headlines by declining the WNBA All-Star 3-Point Contest.