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Stephanie White Admits She’s Not “Educated From a Scientific Standpoint” to Comment on “Biological Males” Playing in Women’s Sports
College Sports Network ^ | August 1, 2026

Posted on 08/01/2026 9:21:49 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Whether Stephanie White likes it or not, she has to deal with the issues that her players have gotten involved in.

One such issue is the backlash towards Sophie Cunningham, who commented in an ESPN profile that female athletes should be protected in sports where they “shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”

Prior to the Indiana-Portland game on Friday, White was asked about her stance on this matter. The Fever head coach offered a disclaimer for her response.

“I don’t know that I would say that I’m educated enough from a scientific standpoint. I don’t ever believe that exclusion is the answer.”

When asked if there was “frustration” that off-court issues are dominating the discourse surrounding the Fever, White admitted that her team would have to learn how to deal with such narratives on the regular.

“There are some frustrations, of course, because we want to talk about basketball. We want to continue to work on our game…But I also understand that this is part of our growth edge as a league. We have to be able to manage. We have to be able to insulate as much as we can.”

It will be difficult for the Fever to insulate itself, however, if the fans’ energy remains at a high level.

Three days ago, the Fever-Fire game on Friday was preceded by a rally in support of Cunningham. The participants in this rally echoed their support for her stance on transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports.

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To: MinorityRepublican

Obviously nobody ever wanted to play Post Office or Spin The Bottle with her as a kid.


41 posted on 08/01/2026 10:57:43 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

She’ll be educated the day the Fever loses to a mostly male team, with her girls in the ER.

She’d have been better off to have Fauci’d the question.


42 posted on 08/01/2026 11:05:00 AM PDT by DPMD (u)
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To: Texas Eagle

She often played Spin the Answer.


43 posted on 08/01/2026 11:09:15 AM PDT by DPMD (u)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Stephanie White Admits She’s Not “Educated From a Scientific Standpoint” to Comment on “Biological Males” Playing in Women’s Sports

Fixed it.

44 posted on 08/01/2026 11:20:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel First. America... who cares?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What a F’n idiot. I bet if a guy whipped his schlong out in front her she would have enough science knowledge to know that it belongs to a male.


45 posted on 08/01/2026 11:22:57 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Not a fan of much)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A cattle farmer can catch her up on the science part, in a paragraph.


46 posted on 08/01/2026 11:30:11 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Stephanie White Admits She’s Not “Educated From a Scientific Standpoint” to Comment on “Biological Males” Playing in Women’s Sports

So she flunked high school biology?

I don’t ever believe that exclusion is the answer

We already have an NBA that only excludes players who weren't good enough. The W in WNBA is 100% about exclusion.

47 posted on 08/01/2026 11:39:46 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Mark17
Something along those lines happened to my oldest when she wanted to play bball years ago. They only had enough girls for one team. They played boys and got whipped every single game.

I will say they didn't quit.

But the physical dominance at that age was very apparent.

48 posted on 08/01/2026 11:45:27 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MinorityRepublican

One does not need very much education to know that biological males do NOT belong in women’s basketball!


49 posted on 08/01/2026 12:12:30 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: fireman15

The first requirement to be a good scientist is that you can observe the real world, reflect upon it, offer some hypothesis purporting to be of general validity and then collect evidence for and against the hypothesis to reach a conclusion. You know like people seem to fall into two classes based upon differentiating common characteristics which we call by convention male and female. We then observe a number of other differentiating traits. You can observe that jumping off of a cliff leads to being dead. Such mental acuity leads to survival and further propagation of the species.


50 posted on 08/01/2026 2:30:07 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s easy coach. Watch your team prepare for a game. Any woman who puts on a jock strap and cup gets benched.

See? Easy.


51 posted on 08/01/2026 3:49:52 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (You choose; a world without dogs or a world without muslims.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Lisa Salters, of ESPN, Stephanie White’s long term lesbian partner.


52 posted on 08/01/2026 3:51:32 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: ealgeone

I will admit, the US women’s Olympic hockey team is much better than they were 50 years ago, but I suspect the boys high school hockey team in northern Minnesota is too. That little town in northern Minnesota, is Warroad, population 1,830. I met Bill and Roger Christian, the 1960 Olympic gold medal winners. I got to hold their gold medals in my hot little hands. Later, they made a ton of money, making hockey sticks. 🤪


53 posted on 08/01/2026 5:22:14 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. 🎤 Father of USAF pilot. ✈️ Aviation is in our DNA)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

54 posted on 08/01/2026 6:19:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: Mark17

Awesome story!! Always a thrill to meet Oympians I bet.


55 posted on 08/01/2026 6:57:18 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: MinorityRepublican

An X post from me feed earlier that bears on this question.

https://x.com/proamericapol/status/2083412949931286863?s=20

Pro America Politics
@proamericapol

In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 in the men’s division.

So, little known and 203rd ranked men’s player Karsten Braasch took them up on the challenge.

Braasch after a night of drinking and smoking with zero practice, destroyed Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2 in straight sets.

The Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes of all time. And they barely made Braasch break a sweat.

It wasn’t because Braasch was very good. He wasn’t.

But, as a male, he possesses biological advantages even the best female athletes can’t compete against.

That’s the very reason we established women’s sports to begin with.

To even the playing field.

That shouldn’t be controversial. And you shouldn’t need a biology degree to understand it.


56 posted on 08/01/2026 9:22:48 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ealgeone

I met Christin Cooper of the U.S. women’s ski team, around 1982, in Solden, Austria. Had a nice friendly conversation with her. She was from Idaho, and Idaho, is where I learned to ski. 👍


57 posted on 08/01/2026 11:21:01 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. 🎤 Father of USAF pilot. ✈️ Aviation is in our DNA)
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To: Ahithophel

From what I can tell, the key criterion for being a player in the WNBA is to be a tall, surly lesbian.


58 posted on 08/02/2026 6:04:56 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: GOPJ
If a 30 year old gay man self identifies as a ten year old boy

Let's just stop right there - "self identifies as" is woke euphemism for "suffers from mental illness of believing he is" Carry on.

59 posted on 08/02/2026 10:24:36 AM PDT by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: fireman15

More nonsense from the midwits in the Dump called the WNBA.


60 posted on 08/02/2026 10:33:40 AM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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