Post #4394581

2026-08-05 18:22 UTC

A basketball coach with a roster, a front office, and a job to protect walked into the loudest night of the WNBA's season wearing four words: Trans Kids Belong. Then she stood in a hallway and told reporters flat that the innuendo about trans women being predators is simply not what is happening. She named the framing itself as the problem. #TransRights #TransKids #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #WNBA #Solidarity #Community #Journalism #Resist 1/2

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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social 2026-08-05 19:15

Thank you for posting this, @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org ! :heart_transgender:

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org 2026-08-05 18:22

Hundreds of homemade signs in the stands behind her. Markers from kitchen drawers. Nobody convened them, they just came. Not one of those decisions was cinematic. That is the only kind that has ever moved this country an inch. Who put something on the line this week where you could see it? #TransRights #TransKids #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #WNBA #Solidarity #Community #Journalism #Resist Reeve, the crowd, and the three studies that landed the same week → [article URL] 2/2

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@Gurre@mastodon.nu 2026-08-05 18:51

@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org I didn't have a favourite WNBA team. But now I suddenly do.

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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-08-05 19:27

@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org Reminder that anti-trans fearmongering is a political malign influence campaign. Partisan bigots use it to manipulate elections & enrich billionaires. The lives of people upended as a cheap & cynical ploy by conservatives & foreign despots. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/how-the-gops-trans-panic-has-shades-of-putins-anti-lgbtq-playbook https://19thnews.org/2022/05/white-evangelical-voters-gop-anti-trans-bills/ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/well-known-right-wing-influencers-duped-to-work-for-covert-russian-operation-u-s-prosecutors-say https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/trump-russia-putin-tenet-media-i-told-you-so/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/22/trump-republican-transgender-strategy-advertisements/ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-04-28/republican-party-adopts-russia-authoritarian-playbook https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5100829/russia-election-influencers-youtube https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/opinion/gop-anti-trans-advertising-harris.html https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/lindsey-graham-dead

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@samiamsam@mastodon.social 2026-08-06 00:27

@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org she's a hero

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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org 2026-08-06 00:58

The Pixelfed Cross post. https://thistleandmoss.org/p/wendythedruid/990737207152737294

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@claus@hachyderm.io 2026-08-06 01:41

@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org that's an awesome coach, a true ally! However, I'm a bit confused - you said "wearing four words", and I counted only three in "trans kids belong." Am I missing something?

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