Sydney Colson, a former WNBA player who now co-hosts a podcast, has made it clear that in her world, free speech is acceptable only when it aligns with her own views on transgender issues.
On the latest episode of *Unsupervised with Syd and TP*, the show she co-hosts with fellow former WNBA player Theresa Plaisance, Colson used her platform to tell white players to shut the f*ck up if they dare to question transgender participation in womens sports. According to Breitbart, Colsons tirade targeted those she claims are failing some vague standard of sisterhood by not endorsing the lefts gender ideology.
Listen, if you never speak up about a damn thing when you know its impacting the people you claim to love and care about, Colson said, you ought to be ashamed to act like youre cool with people, to act like you care about sisterhood, all of these things. She went further, declaring, For the white players in the league, when you dont say sh*t, and even worse, when you say things that are harmful, talking about the trans sh*t, nobody respects you. Shut the f*ck up. Shut the f*ck up. Nobody wants to hear your opinion. Freedom of speech, so you can say it, but just know people are trying to get by when theyre dealing with you.
Colson did not identify any player by name, but her remarks come after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham publicly opposed allowing men to compete in womens sports. Cunningham is notably the only WNBA player, white or otherwise, who has spoken out clearly on this issue, making her the obvious target of Colsons scorn.
The two were teammates on the Fever in 2025, a fact that lends weight to the belief that Colsons lecture about those who merely act like they care about sisterhood was aimed squarely at Cunningham. While Colson demands silence from dissenters, Cunningham has insisted that protecting womens sports is not bigotry but basic fairness.
In a July ESPN interview, Cunningham described the exclusion of men from womens competition as simple common sense. I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldnt have to go against biological men, Cunningham said.
Her comments triggered predictable outrage from activists and led to protests from opposing fans at Fever games, illustrating how radical gender politics now punish even modest calls for fairness. Yet Cunninghams stance reflects a growing concern among parents, athletes, and conservatives who believe womens sports exist to protect female opportunity, not to serve as a social experiment imposed by ideological bullies.
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