She told Dan Dakich on "Don't @ Me" that she no longer recognizes the league she once helped broadcast.Tafoya, who called WNBA games during the league's inaugural years, said politics has replaced the celebration of women's basketball she remembers from the league's early days.WNBA SUDDENLY WANTS TO STICK TO BASKETBALL AFTER YEARS OF MAKING POLITICS PART OF THE PRODUCT"I'm losing faith in this league," Tafoya told Dakich."I have talked about this when this league had its inaugural first three, four seasons, I was one of the three play by play voices.
It was Robin Roberts, Hannah Storm and myself and I worked with Reggie Miller and we had a blast.And it was a celebration of these women.
This league has now somehow morphed into something that feels like activism on display."Michele Tafoya and Kevin O’Leary visited "Outnumbered" at Fox News Channel Studios on April 18, 2024, in New York City.(Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)Tafoya pointed to the protest outside a recent Minnesota Lynx game as evidence of how emotionally charged the debate over women's sports has become.She said pro-trans activists used bullhorns and sirens in an effort to drown out women speaking in defense of female-only competition.Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham reacts to game action against the Portland Fire during the first half at Moda Center in Portland, Ore., on July 31, 2026.
(IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect)"They (pro-trans protesters) were loud," Tafoya continued."They had bullhorns.
They would press their little siren button and just blast us so we could never talk.It's just hard to believe that we are still conflating this idea of women having their own sport, but trans women somehow having access to that sport when they aren't biologically female."This is not an anti-choice, transphobic movement at all.
God bless Sophie Cunningham and you know it as well, if not better than I do.She's got a spine.
And she is a hero of mine."TRANS ACTIVISTS HARASS, HURL SLURS AT SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM S...