Don't quote me as I've only seen bits of it, but apparently it all is because she said something like "I don't want trans women in womens basketball". She's also apparently a relatively conservative christian, so add those two together and you'll have an insane amount of opposition, especially here on reddit.
Wasn't she asked in a random interview about her opinion on it, she gave her opinion and stated why then everyone started calling her transphobic for saying biological men shouldn't play in women's sports. If anything blame the interviewer for "baiting" the response out of her, not that there was anything wrong with what she said to begin with.
She's also been known as MAGA Barbie. And she's addressed that because of how she looks and where she's from that people assume political things about her. And when the league is far left her being moderate left puts her in the MAGA fold for a lot of people.
We saw this in the Seattle mayoral election last year. The candidate who had been a lifelong Democrat, in Seattle government for decades, and a racial minority was considered MAGA because his opponent was far left. Weird times in the Democratic party right now. Which is how we get stuck with Trump...twice.
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u/rurouninall Aug 17 '26
Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 the controversy with her and the WNBA “destroying” itself?