Maria Veri

"The WNBA and its players have reached a level of popularity usually reserved for male athletes and leagues, a level of popularity these man-babies can only dream of."

Transgender athletes in limbo as Olympic sports grapple with USOPC ban With the U.S. Olympic Committee adhering to the Trump administration’s drive to push transgender women out of sports, here’s what that means for athletes and sports organizations.

Thank you to the @sfchronicle.com for letting me report on the USOPC transfeminine athlete ban:

Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.

Shocked, I tell you!

This is footage from today in MacArthur Park.

Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through.

The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW.

Absolutely outrageous.

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Warnock: A budget is not just a fiscal document. A budget is a moral document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who doesn't. And if this awful budget were an EKG, it would suggest that our nation has a heart problem and is in need of moral surgery

Not that the NCAA had too many principles to begin with, but jeez it's shedding them quickly.

This is criminally inhumane.

I don't know how Mabry stayed in the game after that shove.

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.

Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Brundage-level low.

Straight up. No better word for it.

Scenes from Oakland #NoKings

Cal State chancellor spent $17m on chatGPT for student/faculty use last semester. First two discussion forum posts I graded in my summer class? Blatant AI use. 🤔

Teen athlete targeted by Trump’s anti-trans attacks: ‘I know how hard I’ve worked. That’s what matters’ AB Hernandez, 16, and her mom tell the Guardian about her love of track, how her community has stood by her – and why ‘intimidation tactics’ won’t work

AB Hernandez, the teen athlete targeted by Trump's anti-trans attacks: “I know how hard I've worked. That's what matters...Track is everything to me. It's an honor I’m a champion for something I love"

Her mom Nereyda: “They try to intimidate ppl to quit, but I’m not scared of them"

My interviews:

All of you are glorious, and the book is terrific. 🙏🏽

All airport gates should have cool exhibits like this by them. #NASSH2025 bound from SFO.

So awesome.

He just keeps getting worse & worse...

Oh no...

I have no confidence whatsoever that FIFA & IOC will do anything remotely helpful to anything but their respective bottom lines.

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The Rise of Women’s Basketball (Gift Article) Caitlin Clark helped push the sport to new highs. She didn’t do it alone.

The NCAA had nothing to do with the start of women's sport history in the US. If anything it worked at every turn, for decades, to discourage and even eliminate opportunities for women's competitive athletics. If you want to know more about women's athletic leadership - check out the AIAW!

Thank you, Dave.

“I’m Terrified”: Trans-Feminine Athletes in Their Own Words In part two of a series, trans women athletes describe what it’s like to compete in the Trump era.

My latest piece @thenation.com PART II of a Series on Trans-Athletes, this one focusing on the trans-feminine athletes who have been the most demonized. They've been the focus of constant commentary while they themselves have been deliberately unheard. Hear them. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Lia Thomas, 6'1"

Katie Ledecky, 6'0"

Missy Franklin, 6'2"

Allison Schmitt, 6'1"

One thing that really bugs me about so many of the anti-trans arguments about sports is that they'll be like, "Lia Thomas was a giant! Clearly she had an unfair advantage!" when the reality was just that she was pretty much the same size as other elite women swimmers.