WNBA players rpond to ex-player's claims that 98 percent of league is gay

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• CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
• WNBA’S SUE BIRD SAYS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL IS LS POPULAR THAN SOCCER BEE THEY’RE BLACK AND GAY
• THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY
• WNBA PLAYERS RPOND TO EX-PLAYER'S CLAIMS THAT 98 PERCENT OF LEAGUE IS GAY

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.

WNBA’S SUE BIRD SAYS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL IS LS POPULAR THAN SOCCER BEE THEY’RE BLACK AND GAY

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. Women’s Natnal Basketball Associatn (WNBA) player Sue Bird claimed an terview that women’s basketball is ls popular than women’s soccer bee the basketball players are Black and gay, while the soccer players are perceived as “cute ltle whe girls. “It’s 70-80 percent Black women, a lot of gay women.

THE 77 WNBA PLAYERS THAT HAVE COME OUT AS GAY LBIAN, TRANS OR NON-BARY

And soccer, you jt don’t see that jt based on how they look, ” she ntued, addg, “The problem is how society and how the outsi world is willg to accept the cute girl next door, but not willg to accept, or embrace, or not judge the basketball players who are tall, Black, gay. In an article for The Player’s Tribune earlier this month, Rapoe wrote, “This untry has a ep history of racism, and a ep history of homophobia. And if you look at the players the W[NBA]: Most of them are Black, and a lot of them are gay.

WNBA PLAYERS RPOND TO EX-PLAYER'S CLAIMS THAT 98 PERCENT OF LEAGUE IS GAY

And, you know, breakg news … I’m gay. Not only was their birthday a huge tone for women’s profsnal basketball, but the league’s growth has cid wh a growg acceptance of players that intify as gay, lbian, bisexual and trans.