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Women’s basketball champion Brittney Griner returned to the court last week for the first time in nearly a year after being exchanged for a Russian arms dealer by the U.S. government in order to secure her return back home.

Women’s sports advocate and former All-American swimmer Riley Gaines is calling out WNBA champion Brittney Griner over recent remarks equating protecting female athletes from competing with and sharing locker space with biological men to being ‘criminal’ and unfair.

Women’s basketball star Brittney Griner is back in the news again. Months after being swamped in a prisoner exchange with the Russian government for the international criminal Victor Bout, better known infamously as the “Merchant of Death,” Griner is home, free at last, breathing American air and going out of her way to say that it is perfectly fine for biological men to compete in sports against biological women.

U.S. Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens described Brittney Griner as “patriotic” after detailing his role in greeting Griner on a tarmac in the United Arab Emirates and flying back with her to the United States.

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons quickly backtracked his initial reaction to news that Brittney Griner was traded for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout.

NFL analyst for CBS and the host of the Boomer & Gio radio show made pointed comments about the Joe Biden administration and the way the United States is being run following the Brittney Griner swap for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

Four-time NFL Pro Bowler Boomer Esiason suggested Joe Biden and his administration should have arrested Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin in order to swap him for Brittney Griner.

Convicted Russian spy and a current member of the Russian State Duma Maria Butina, who was found guilty in 2018 of “conspiring to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within the United States, gloated the fact that the United States traded Brittney Griner for arms dealer Viktor Bout.

Olympian and WNBA champion Brittney Griner, who was arrested and sentenced to nine-years of hard labor in a Russian penal camp for bringing cannabis vape cartridges into the country, has been exchanged with Russian national and notorious arms dealer Victor Bout as the result of a deal between the United States and Russia in order to secure Griner’s freedom.

WNBA star Brittney Griner was reportedly transferred out of her Moscow jail and into a Russian penal colony on Friday after she plead guilty to drug smuggling and possession charges.