Payton McNabb, a campaigner for women’s sports protections, praised Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham for speaking up in the debate over transgender participation in women’s sport. The article frames McNabb’s support through her own experience of serious injury in a high-school volleyball match, which it says propelled her into advocacy and congressional testimony.

McNabb said the movement to protect women’s sport has grown rapidly over the past three years, moving from cautious public messaging to more direct discussion of sex-based physical differences. The article also says she reacted to Caitlin Clark, though the supplied text does not include the substance of those comments.