Freedom responded to Reeve in a social media post Saturday, rejecting her characterization of those advocating to keep biological males out of women’s sports."Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve should step down immediately.You can’t lead women’s basketball while refusing to stand up for women’s sports.
Can someone, for the love of God, please explain to her that: Protecting women’s sports is not an attack on anyone’s existence, nor does it erase a community.Coach, if you truly mean what you just said, then put your hypocrisy aside and prove it by drafting me in the 2027 WNBA Draft," Freedom wrote.LYNX COACH CHERYL REEVE VOICES SUPPORT FOR THE TRANS COMMUNITY AGAIN AFTER REGULAR SEASON FINALE VS FEVERMinnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve wore a ‘Trans Kids Belong’ shirt as the Lynx faced Sophie Cunningham’s Fever, adding new fuel to the WNBA’s trans-athlete debate.
(IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect)Reeve made the remarks after the Lynx closed the regular season with an 86-66 victory over the Indiana Fever at Target Center Thursday.The game was accompanied by competing demonstrations outside the arena over transgender participation in women’s sports."I think that’s probably one of the more meaningful things that would mark the season for me," Reeve said.
"It’s that the transgender community is one that deserves our support, and what is happening in the name of some issues of transgender in sports — it’s really an attack on all transgender community.They don’t want transgender people to exist."Reeve said the reaction she received after wearing a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt during a nationally televised Aug.
2 game against Indiana made the gesture one of the most meaningful moments of her season."The amount of communication of people who were affected by something as simple as wearing a T-shirt in support of them and helping them be seen — with the platform that we have in professional sports, it was a small gesture by me," Reeve...