‘I would welcome a trans athlete on my team’: WNBA All-Star and Olympian says current debate is ‘just another way to attack trans people’

Indiana Fever guard sparked one of the defining controversies of 2026 when her comments on transgender athletes participating in women’s sports were published in an ESPN profile on her on July 21. “I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” Cunningham told ESPN. “I think…