Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham unknowingly sparked a nationwide controversy with her comments on transgender athletes participating in women’s sports earlier this summer.
“I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,'” she told ESPN for a profile published in July. “I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”
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Cunningham’s stance, which she doubled down on days later, has led to rallies and counter-rallies outside Fever games, opposing coaches weighing in, and even the White House addressing the issue. Two former NBA players, Enes Kanter and Royce White, neither of whom was remarkable during their playing days, joined the conversation by saying they now identified as women and were “declaring” for the 2027 WNBA draft.
Kanter attended a Fever-Chicago Sky game wearing a “woman” shirt and had to be removed from the arena after a verbal altercation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. On Friday, White attended a Fever-Connecticut Sun game in a wig.
Following White apperance at the game, he took things even further on social media.
“I am the Rosa Parks of Black Trans Lesbians. CLOCK IT!” he posted on X.
“Failed candidate and MAGA grifter.”
Fans on X let White hear it for his grifting antics.
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“I hate how society just lets these creeps do stupid sh*t like this can’t we just jail them,” one fan posted.
“Failed candidate and MAGA grifter. Royce White beat his wife and kid so badly a judge gave him a 50-year restraining order, someone else added.
“Yeah he definitely cares about women thats why hes making fun of one of the most important women in history,” another fan wrote.
It’d be nice to say White can’t go any lower than this, but his legal history would indicate otherwise.
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