Get MACED - August 04, 2026


Nancy Mace and Sophie Cunningham SLAM WNBA： ＂I said what I said＂


Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

164.59

Word count

683

Sentence count

65


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I want to help the WNBA with something totally free of charge.
00:00:05.000 WNBA. Four letters. Let's take a look at them one by one. W is for women. That's it. You can
00:00:12.180 stop watching now. Except apparently we need to keep going because there are four head coaches
00:00:17.460 in the league who cannot get past the first letter. Four in a four-letter league. One says
00:00:24.180 inclusion includes trans women. One wore a t-shirt about it to a game, which respect because that
00:00:31.280 t-shirt is the most detailed policy statement anybody in the league has ever issued. A t-shirt.
00:00:37.760 One said his focus is on just being a basketball coach, which honestly, most coherent answer of
00:00:43.960 the bunch. The guy knows his lane. And the fourth is Sophie Cunningham's own coach, Stephanie White,
00:00:50.540 who says she's not educated enough on the science to have an opinion on what a woman is.
00:00:57.820 Ma'am, you are one, and you've had a lifetime to study.
00:01:02.800 It's also the first order in the name of the organization that signs their paychecks.
00:01:07.400 They're not being asked to perform surgery here.
00:01:09.820 They're being asked a question on the bathroom door, and they failed.
00:01:13.820 But here's the thing.
00:01:14.880 The league already answered this in writing in March.
00:01:17.400 The WNBA's contract with its players, 409 pages, Article 13, Section 1, and I'll read it exactly as written, quote,
00:01:26.540 only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.
00:01:32.460 Their words, not mine.
00:01:34.840 Now, 409 pages, a room full of lawyers billing by the hour, and some were in there.
00:01:39.780 They found time to define rookie.
00:01:41.760 They found time to define the word veteran, the word team.
00:01:44.380 They even defined, quote, regular season.
00:01:46.600 In case anybody got confused about which season was the, quote, regular one.
00:01:51.600 Nobody had the courage to define woman.
00:01:55.500 The words transgender or gender identity don't appear in there at all.
00:01:59.900 409 pages and the subject never comes up, so that's not an oversight.
00:02:04.080 So reporters went and asked.
00:02:05.500 They asked the league.
00:02:06.400 They asked the players union.
00:02:08.200 Their entire existence is representing women.
00:02:11.580 And one question, what is a woman?
00:02:14.340 Nothing but silence.
00:02:15.480 Hell, Tim Walz answered the question better in an oversight hearing than any of them.
00:02:21.020 So their position is only women can play in the WNBA, but nobody can define what one is.
00:02:26.580 Total oxymoron.
00:02:28.360 That's like saying jumbo and shrimp in the same sentence.
00:02:31.020 And I know a little something about an institution that had to decide whether women counted.
00:02:36.240 The Citadel spent 150 years working that out.
00:02:38.880 And when they finally did, they passed with flying colors because they weren't confused.
00:02:43.740 And they'll tell you in the WNBA this is all hypothetical, it's never happened before, great, even better, it never should.
00:02:50.160 So then writing what a woman down is should cost them nothing.
00:02:54.160 They're telling us it's not a problem, but also can't spare a word to define a real biological woman.
00:03:00.240 One woman did answer, and they came for her.
00:03:03.800 Sophie Cunningham said girls shouldn't have to compete against biological men.
00:03:08.220 She got called a stain on society.
00:03:10.920 She got called a racist because apparently being pro-woman now means you hate black people.
00:03:16.920 Four coaches lined up to explain why she was wrong.
00:03:19.760 And when they asked her to walk it back, Sophie Cunningham's response, I said what I said.
00:03:24.960 I mean, I think I said what I said.
00:03:26.460 I think it's kind of common sense.
00:03:28.780 And I think I'll always believe in that.
00:03:30.960 I think it's really important to protect children.
00:03:33.200 And that's little girls who are also involved in that category.
00:03:36.980 And so I stand on what I said, and I always believe that.
00:03:42.000 Good.
00:03:43.080 Women fought for that W.
00:03:45.040 Title IX put it into law, and 50 years of athletes built it into something worth paying to watch on TV.
00:03:51.480 And every single one of them was a woman.
00:03:54.720 A Waffle House placemat is a better legal document than the WNBA contract.
00:03:59.980 Because a category you can't define is a category you can't defend.
00:04:06.980 You