WNBA star Brianna Turner is no fan of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) recently announced testing policies aimed at keeping men out of women’s sports, and she doesn’t want her name being used to exclude “trans women.”
The Chicago Sky star co-wrote a piece in USA Today Sports along with Los Angeles Sparks player Layshia Clarendon, in which the pair took issue with the IOC’s stance against allowing transgender athletes to compete in the female category, saying in part, that “the final hurdle to represent your country should not be proving to a panel of strangers that you are the woman you say you are”.
The pair wrote, “Do not use the names of women athletes to target, shame, or exclude transgender women. Transgender women are women. Women with intersex variations are women. I welcome these women – and all women – onto my teams.”
The article continues, “Policies banning transgender athletes
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