The Women’s National Basketball Players Association issued a statement supporting diversity and inclusion as debate over transgender participation in women’s sport continued. The intervention matters because the WNBA and its players’ union have become part of a wider public argument about how sporting bodies should balance inclusion with sex-based categories and competitive fairness.

The statement praised the range of players’ “lived experiences, cultures, lifestyles, and opinions”, according to the article. It followed heightened attention around women’s sport, including a rally in Minneapolis supporting WNBA player Sophie Cunningham’s advocacy for sex-protected spaces; the article says transgender activists confronted and harassed some attendees.