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• CANDICE WIGGS SAYS 98 PERCENT OF WNBA IS GAY, CLAIMS SHE WAS BULLIED FOR BEG STRAIGHT
• IN 2022, NEARLY 30% OF ALL WNBA PLAYERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, TRANS OR QUEER
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

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

Beanna Stewart has had a 2021 for the ag: proposg to girliend and WNBA rival Marta Xargay May, wng her send Olympic gold medal Augt, and welg her first child to the world one day later. (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.

IN 2022, NEARLY 30% OF ALL WNBA PLAYERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN, TRANS OR QUEER

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.

Wh that md, we wanted to look to answerg a somewhat ntroversial qutn that many have regardg the WNBA — that qutn beg what percentage of the players intify as gay or lbian? And bee they’re not able to sexualize them and are threatened by strong, athletic, even mascule women, they react angrily out of disfort and fear and that manifts pretg homophobic, racist and misogynistic jok about WNBA players. What Percentage of WNBA Players Are Gay?

Havg done some exhstive rearch on WNBA players that are public wh their sexualy, we piled a list of dozens of retired and active WNBA players that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans and/or queer. Based off terviews, articl, the player’s public Instagram acunts and other onle rmatn, we found the followg gay and lbian WNBA players that are active as of the 2022 season. The list above nam off 41 active WNBA players that nsir themselv gay, lbian, or queer.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

It’s worth sayg aga that both s, the numbers reprent players that are publicly out meang that the percentage of gay and lbian WNBA players is likely higher bee any attempt at exactg how many gay and lbian players there the WNBA is directly impacted by the negative affects that g out at work n have on that person personally and profsnally. For many of the players g out as gay, lbian, queer, trans or non-bary not only open yourself up to beg discrimated agast off the urt, but may have a direct impact on how many mut you play, whether you make the Olympic team, potential endorsements, post-playg reer opportuni, and a host of other issu. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.