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Angel Reese, nan erstwhile LSU nationalist champion who was a apical action successful the WNBA Draft past week, put retired a elemental station astir women successful sports connected Monday.
The caller Chicago Sky prima urged followers and anyone who publication her posts connected X to "protect young women successful sports!!!"
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Angel Reese smiles during nan 2024 WNBA Draft connected April 14, 2025 astatine nan Brooklyn Academy of Music successful Brooklyn, New York. (Melanie Fidler/NBAE via Getty Images)
Reese did not explicate further, but nan station reached much than 1.4 cardinal impressions by nan afternoon.
The station from Reese came days aft nan Biden management unveiled caller rules aimed astatine safeguarding LGBTQ+ students and changing nan ways successful which intersexual harassment and battle claims are adjudicated connected campus. However, missing from nan caller norm was a argumentation forbidding schools from enacting outright bans connected transgender athletes competing against biologic females.
The White House was wide expected to bring successful specified a argumentation but has alternatively put nan proviso connected hold. The hold is wide seen arsenic a governmental maneuver during an predetermination twelvemonth successful which Republicans person rallied astir bans connected transgender athletes successful girls' sports.
Angel Reese, #10 of nan LSU Tigers, shoots nan shot during nan crippled against nan Iowa Hawkeyes successful nan Final of nan NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament - Albany Regional astatine MVP Arena connected April 1, 2024 successful Albany, New York. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
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South Carolina caput coach Dawn Staley besides admitted earlier nan nationalist title that she would support a transgender jock successful women’s basketball.
Reese’s remarks besides came aft she lamented nan accrued scrutiny she has received since she helped LSU to a nationalist title successful 2023. Since then, she has had lucrative NIL deals and appeared successful Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition.
"I’ve been done truthful much," Reese told reporters aft losing to Iowa successful nan tournament. "I’ve seen truthful much. I’ve been attacked truthful galore times, decease threats. I’ve been sexualized. I’ve been threatened. I’ve been truthful galore things, and I’ve stood beardown each azygous time.
Draftees Angel Reese, left, and Cameron Brink airs for a phot during nan 2024 WNBA Draft connected April 14, 2024 astatine nan Brooklyn Academy of Music successful Brooklyn, New York. (Catalina Fragoso/NBAE via Getty Images)
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"I conscionable effort to guidelines beardown for my teammates because I don’t want them to spot maine down and not beryllium location for them. I’m still a human. All this has happened since I won nan nationalist championship. I haven’t had bid since then."
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