Rumors spread to the WNBA “Sexual Testing”, Brittney Griner and Karoline Leavitt. Here is the truth
Claim:
The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed “the truth” about the sex of the WNBA player, Brittney Griner, and the WNBA announced compulsory “sexual tests”.
Notation:
Note: False
A rumor that circulated online in August 2025 said that the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed “the truth” about the sex of the WNBA player, Brittney Griner, who plays for Atlanta’s dream. Users sharing the case also said the WNBA announced compulsory “sexual tests” for the next League basketball season.
For example, on August 1, a user managing the Facebook page Today in America shared the rumor in an article receiving more than 69,000 reactions, 18,000 comments and 3,600 shares. The message presented an article on a blog linked in the comments, as well as other articles sharing the same rumor on Facebook and the threads (archived).
(Today in America / Facebook)
This post was read:
It has just happened: Karoline Leavitt calls Brittney Griner a “S **” after discovering the truth about his sex. In a surprising and controversial decision, the National Basketball αssociation female (WNBα) has announced that it will implement compulsory S3X tests for all players from next season. This decision comes in the midst of discussions concerning gender identity and inclusiveness in women …
However, the research of Bing,, DuckDuckGo,, Google And Yahoo did not find any media of information reporting anything on Leavitt revealing a discovery on the gender or gender of Griner, or on the WNBA announcing “compulsory sexual tests”. Important points of sale would have largely reported the alleged controversy, if it is true.
On the contrary, the one who wrote history made the entire history as one of the hundreds of stories about the question button questions in the world of American politics. These people – including at least some users residing in Vietnam, according to Facebook’s “transparency of pages” tongue – aimed at gaining advertising revenues on the articles hosted on the linked websites of the above -mentioned publications. In addition, some messages, including a videoHas displayed inauthentic supports that users have generated with artificial intelligence tools.
The White House told Snopes by e-mail: “This is obviously false.” We also sent an e-mail to the WNBA to ask if he wanted to share a statement concerning this question, as well as to contact users who managed in America today, and we will update this story if we receive more information.
Searches for aforementioned research websites found users promotion The complaint for at least June 2025.
Griner’s appearance and arrest in Russia
Regarding Griner, in an interview of 2015 with Espn.comShe spoke of growing up with people who are wrongly believing, because of her appearance, that she was a boy. “When I was younger, I was certainly chosen for my size and my voice, which has always been deep.” Griner, now standing 6 feet, 9 inches high, also said that people have confused it with a man in the women’s toilet.
In February 2022, Russian officials decree Griner for taking cannabis vape cartridges in the country. A Russian court sentenced him to nine years in a labor camp. After 10 months, Russia agreed to release it in exchange for the Liberation of the United States of Russian Weapons Viktor.
For more reading, SNOPES previously reported On another false rumor about Griner, saying that it had received $ 62,000 in forgiveness for student housing despite a net value of $ 140 million.
Sources:
“Brittney Griner statistics, size, weight, position, project status and more.” WNBA, https://www.wnba.com/player/brittney-gratiner.
Fagan, Kate and Morty Ain. “Griner:” I don’t know what people think I’m hiding. “” Espn.comJul 6, 2015, https://www.espn.com/espnw/article/13176422/phoenix-mecury-ter-brittney-gratiner-open-bares-all-pn-magazine-body-issue.
Quinn, always “Brittney Griner’s story on Russian detention: I wanted to say it according to my conditions.” Espn.comMay 7, 2024, https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40071460/brittney-gratiner-wnba-phoenix-mercury-russia-tedained-releled-memoir.
