Heather Heying
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8,492 appearances
15 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Heather Heying’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because uh
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It's not it's not inherently newsworthy.
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Okay.
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What she is talking what she's referring to in part is uh the fact that Sophie Cunningham
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uh has uh emerged as a current player for the WNBA as someone who is critical of the idea that men should be allowed to play in women's sports.
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Uh and then also that a couple of of professional NBA players, I believe both retired recently, um, have suggested they are going to join the WNBA draft.
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Um so I've just you know I've given you sort of the end of the story here, but let's just go through a few of what uh this this story says.
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She says, WNBA Commissioner Kathy Engelbert says, I know many of you have received questions in recent weeks regarding transgender athlete participation in women's basketball, and I expect this topic will continue to receive significant attention.
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I wanted to reach out to share how we are approaching these conversations at the league office and to thank those of you who respond to questions from the media with thoughtfulness and professionalism.
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I read that paragraph because it contains no information, as indeed does nothing in her press conference.
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There was, this is now not her, but the person writing the article um talking about uh Sophie Cunningham voicing support for not having uh boys and men play in girls and women's sports in an ESPN article that was published last month.
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And there of course been um small rallies and protests in Wait for it, Seattle and Portland.
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The fever were on the road last week, of course, because we here in the Pacific Northwest are just like ground central for stupid in this regard.
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It the c the article goes on.
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There was a lone protester at the Fever's home game against Las Vegas on Thursday night.
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Indiana visits Chicago on Saturday.
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Members of two conservative groups are planning a rally in support of Cunningham ahead of that game.
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I do want to read a little bit more from this article, but first I wanna point out that conservative groups in that sentence is strange, right?
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So to me, conservative
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Used to mean, should still mean
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