Outkick founder Clay Travis is calling the WNBA’s bluff.
In response to the latest kerfuffle within the professional women’s basketball league over Sophie Cunningham’s defense of women’s sports, Travis, who’s also a sports journalist and co-host of “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,” tweeted out a provocative offer this past Tuesday:
“Important announcement: I am upping my offer, $10 million dollars for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boy’s high school state title team of my choice,” he wrote. “If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million.”
The Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham has ignited a firestorm of criticism from leftists for suggesting women’s sports should be reserved for women.
Cunningham’s position is straightforward common-sense that’s been widely accepted forever. It’s only been in recent years with the introduction of the “trans” movement that anyone would have objected to such a position. Sadly, even Cunningham’s coach has been infected by the inanity. Asked recently whether sexually confused men should be permitted to play in the league, the Fever’s Stephanie White refused to answer.
“I don’t know that I would say I’m educated enough from a scientific standpoint,” the coach told the press. “I don’t ever believe that exclusion is the answer. I just don’t. I do think that when we think about various levels of sport, various governing bodies of sport, and things that go into that, like I said, I’m not educated enough at the different levels. I know growing up I played with the boys all the time.”
So Coach White is educated enough to coach a women’s basketball team, but not informed enough to recognize the fundamental and foundational physiological differences between male and female athletes?
It’s been long established that males have between 30% and 40% more upper-body muscle mass and between 20% and 30% more lower-body muscle mass than females. Males generally have larger skeletons, longer limbs, broader shoulders, larger hands and feet, and higher bone density. They also have larger hearts and greater lung capacity. As a result, men run, on average, 8% to 12% faster than women.
Clay Travis is aware of these significant differences, which is why he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is and challenge the absurd premise underlying the “trans” debate, specifically that men and women are interchangeable.
Sophie Cunningham’s famous teammate, Caitlin Clark, has deliberately sidestepped the controversy, a decision that has disappointed many of her fans. Asked about the raging debate this past weekend, Clark deferred.
“I think it’s for leagues and governing bodies to work with their athletes to find solutions,” she told reporters. “Our focus is on basketball. That’s what we talk about and how we can get wins and obviously we didn’t do that tonight. So we need to find an area to improve in that way.”
Cheryl Reeve, head coach of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx, tackled the issue in the exact opposite manner. During a recent game against Cunningham’s and Clark’s Fever, she wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “Trans Kids Belong.” She told reporters, “We need to protect trans kids.”
Never mind that there’s no such thing as a “trans” kid – there are boys and girls, and yes, they should be protected, especially girls from boys who claim to be girls.
As of this writing, the Las Vegas Aces haven’t yet responded to Clay Travis’ offer, nor are they expected to take him up on the $10 million challenge. Critics may not appreciate the theater of such an offer, but the Outkick founder is simply using the tactic to make an irrefutable point: the physiological differences between male and female athletes are real and significant.
In the end, the “trans” delusion is theater itself, and a very bad show where the curtain is falling and whose run is hopefully and prayerfully drawing to a close.