WNBA team reveals snapping turtle mascot with 'she/them' pronouns — and gets hilarious backlash

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Tempo team of the WNBA is facing some ridicule after introducing a new mascot couple — and one with she-them pronouns. The mascots are Dez, a snapping turtle with the non-traditional pronouns, and Dot, an arctic hare with she/her pronouns, according to a release on Wednesday. "Naturally, the internet began wondering whether the mascots were friends, girlfriends, or perhaps simply two fictional animals trapped in the longest queer will-they-won't-they of the WNBA," the queer site mused.

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• The mascots, coincidentally, were introduced at the team's Tuesday game against the Indiana Fever, whose star guard Sophie Cunningham has kicked a gender-confused hornet's nest with her opposition to males...
• The fans of the Canadian team relentlessly booed Cunningham emphatically, but she responded by helping her team defeat the Tempo.
• Pink News added that many believed the Seattle Storm mascot Doppler was the first nonbinary mascot in the WNBA.
• Others on social media were not as enthused about the apparently gender-confused mascots.

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