Unapologetic and steadfast, Riley Gaines, the nation’s leading advocate for the preservation of women’s sports for biological women, gets under the skin of woke leftists without even trying.She travels the country, and says that biological men don’t belong.The audacity!THESE FEMALE ATHLETES NEED TO SPEAK UP ABOUT KEEPING WOMEN'S SPORTS FOR WOMEN, LIKE SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM DIDRiley Gaines speaks outside the U.S.
Supreme Court as justices hear arguments in challenges to state bans on transgender athletes in women's sports on Jan.13, 2026, in Washington, D.C.
(Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)In some places in this country, Gaines gets booed for speaking this simple logic and truth.She gets yelled at.
Even spit on for her beliefs.That was the kind of reception Gaines got at her very first WNBA game in Minneapolis earlier this summer, when she dared to take a sign into the arena that praised Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham for bravely speaking up for girls in girls' sports.SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM SUPPORTERS RALLY IN INDIANA WHILE DISPLAYING WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREATFast-forward to her second-ever WNBA game, Friday night in Indianapolis at an Indiana Fever game in which former NBA player Royce White (now sometimes going by "Roysha") made a surprise appearance, and Gaines got a much different reception.Riley Gaines and Royce White talk in Indianapolis during halftime of a WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and the Connecticut Sun about how important it is to keep women's sports for biological women.Hugs, smiles, requests for photographs.ROYCE WHITE SHOWS UP TO INDIANA FEVER GAME IN BLONDE WIG AMID WNBA DRAFT PURSUITBlue state, red state.
Delusional, sensible.Hostile, friendly.Perhaps this is part of the problem with the powder keg that is the WNBA.
There are 15 teams in the league, and only two are located in solid red states: the Indiana Fever and the Dallas Wings.Atlanta, Las Vegas and Phoenix have teams, but those states aren’t reliably red, more purpl...