Candice Wiggs says 98% of the women the WNBA are gay - Outsports

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• CANDICE WIGGS: I WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT '98% GAY' WNBA
• CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
• CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98% OF THE WOMEN THE WNBA ARE GAY
• CANDICE WIGGS: WNBA IS 98 PERCENT GAY, ‘PRSG’
• CANDICE WIGGS: I PAID FOR BEG A STRAIGHT WOMAN A 98-PERCENT-GAY WNBA
• RETIRED WNBA PLAYER CANDICE WIGGS SAYS PLAYERS HATED HER BEE SHE WASN’T GAY

CANDICE WIGGS: I WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT '98% GAY' WNBA

1 pots durg her sophomore mpaign. She suffered a season-endg torn achill’ tendon early the 2010 season and was limed to a ep rerve role helpg the Lynx to the club’s first ever champnship juri were only a part of the problem for the southern California native, who scribed her difficulti assiatg to a league that she says nsists predomately of gay women. “I would say 98% of the women the WNBA are gay women.

CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT

(AP)The WNBA has historilly been the most forward-thkg sports league Ameri when to gay rights. While the WNBA hasn’t always ma the LGBTQ muny proud wh how choos to promote and acmodate s gay players, ’s fair to say that they’ve ma meangful stris. In a new terview wh the San Diego Unn-Tribune, Wiggs says that “98 percent” of the WNBA is gay and that she would have played two more years if not for the “toxic” environment that affected her as a straight woman:“I wanted to play two more seasons of WNBA, but the experience didn’t lend self to my mental state, ” Wiggs said.

“I would say 98 percent of the women the WNBA are gay women. So acrdg to the numbers, I intify as gay now— Deverex Peters (@MsPeters14) Febary 20, 2017It’s tough to asss all of Wiggs’s statements, bee she is ultimately scribg a personal experience that have not yet been refuted. That piece did not feature any explic reference to the prsure of beg straight a very gay ’s difficult to read this piece, then, whout wonrg exactly where Wiggs is g om.

Usg hyperbole to make a pot is not herently wrong, but dog to st a historilly margalized group (gay women, many of whom are also black) as a bullyg force rais ncerns. Other players "were liberately tryg to hurt me all of the time, " said Wiggs, attributg that to her beg straight and "proud to be a woman, " thgs she said weren't accepted a league where she claimed "98 percent" of the players are gay. She played for four anchis her eight-year reer, and the achg staffs for those teams were diverse, a mix of men and women, gay and straight people, and those of different rac.

CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98% OF THE WOMEN THE WNBA ARE GAY

But 'nobody r about the WNBA' and '98 percent of the league is gay' are pletely false statements. But Wiggs' "nobody r" remarks sound almost as if they had been pied and pasted om some snark-filled "The WNBA Is a Joke" msage-board for the assertn that virtually all of the WNBA's players are gay, try to "look and play like men" and are actively hostile to straight players? Wiggs claimed “98 percent of the women the WNBA are gay.

CANDICE WIGGS: WNBA IS 98 PERCENT GAY, ‘PRSG’

”Sce Wiggs terview was published the San Diego Unn Tribune on Monday, several WNBA players and ach have reacted to her gay WNBA player Layshia Clarendon posted a strg of tweets rpondg to the different pots Wiggs ma the article. In a San Diego Unn-Tribune story on Wiggs — who played on four teams over an eight-year reer — she claimed that "98 percent" of WNBA players are gay, many of whom harassed her for beg heterosexual.

"But 'nobody r about the WNBA' and '98 percent of the league is gay' are pletely false statements. Candice Wiggs’ cisn to go public wh accatns that she’d been bullied the WNBA, partly bee she is heterosexual, was guaranteed to create a Wiggs said that “98% of the women the WNBA are gay women” and “people were liberately tryg to hurt me all of the time.

WNBA legend and new Hall of Fame nomee Rebec Lobo got at the issue wh the 98% ment as played the media, referencg this ESPN piece that poted out that “there is no published data on the number of gay players the league. ”"The WNBA do not release the number of gay players the league. Is Candice Wiggs gay?

CANDICE WIGGS: I PAID FOR BEG A STRAIGHT WOMAN A 98-PERCENT-GAY WNBA

She also claimed that “98 percent of the women the WNBA are gay women, ” and that beg a straight woman the league hurt her. 1 llege basketball and soccer, the WNBA and profsnal women’s soccer, hockey and basketball — have talked publicly about the ordate number of gay and bisexual women their sports.

The Unn-Tribune reported at least a dozen current and former WNBA players have e out as gay.

RETIRED WNBA PLAYER CANDICE WIGGS SAYS PLAYERS HATED HER BEE SHE WASN’T GAY

“I would say 98 per cent of the women the WNBA are gay women.

However, Wiggs said her time the league was plagued wh bullyg and attacks om other players bee she wasn’t gay. The publitn sat down wh Wiggs where she shared tails of her time the WNBA and how players reportedly rented her for beg a straight woman a league she claimed was mostly filled wh gay women. | Facebook/Candice WiggsFormer WNBA star Candice Wiggs se herself as a non-tradnal Christian who has walked a rocky years ago, Wiggs says she was forced to retire early part bee she was bullied for beg straight a league she timat is 98% gay.

Wiggs said some people thought she was takg a stance agast homosexualy but she was only talkg about her personal experience and wanted to be hont about her the time she did the terview, Wiggs was beg ducted to the San Diego Hall of Champns Brebard Hall of Fame as the first female basketball player. I felt like I was lyg if I didn’t bee they need to unrstand, and I also was hopg secretly that [the culture] would change, ” she asked if she would rephrase her timate of the number of gay players the WNBA, she said "no" bee was jt an opn, not a scientific fact.