{"id":80117,"date":"2026-10-17T10:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/the-right-is-pushing-its-anti-trans-fury-on-the-wnba-players-and-fans-are-loudly-pushing-back\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T10:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:55:51","slug":"the-right-is-pushing-its-anti-trans-fury-on-the-wnba-players-and-fans-are-loudly-pushing-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/the-right-is-pushing-its-anti-trans-fury-on-the-wnba-players-and-fans-are-loudly-pushing-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The right is pushing its anti-trans fury on the WNBA. Players and fans are loudly pushing back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the WNBA finals kick off Saturday in San Francisco, the pro-LGBTQ+ sports fanbase push a message of inclusion in the face of anti-trans attacks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/12\/sign-up-for-wnba-30-a-limited-run-womens-basketball-newsletter\">Sign up for WNBA 30: a free women\u2019s basketball newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Wilka\u2019s Sports Bar in lower Manhattan, a crowd of mostly LGBTQ+ fans was fired up during a WNBA playoff game between the New York Liberty and the Atlanta Dream. When the Liberty\u2019s Jonquel Jones blocked the Dream\u2019s star forward Angel Reese at the basket, then chest-bumped her \u2013 leading teammates to separate them \u2013 the bar erupted in cheers. One fan quietly joked: \u201cNow kiss!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love strong women, and I love supporting strong women,\u201d said August, a trans organizer and Liberty fan who asked to go by their first name for privacy reasons.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/oct\/17\/trans-women-wnba-players-fans-advocacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the WNBA finals kick off Saturday in San Francisco, the pro-LGBTQ+ sports fanbase push a message of inclusion in the face of anti-trans attacks Sign up for WNBA 30: a free women\u2019s basketball newsletter At Wilka\u2019s Sports Bar in lower Manhattan, a crowd of mostly LGBTQ+ fans was fired up during a WNBA playoff &#8230; <a title=\"The right is pushing its anti-trans fury on the WNBA. Players and fans are loudly pushing back\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/the-right-is-pushing-its-anti-trans-fury-on-the-wnba-players-and-fans-are-loudly-pushing-back\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The right is pushing its anti-trans fury on the WNBA. Players and fans are loudly pushing back\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}