What name and pronouns has Brittney Griner publicly used throughout her career?
Executive summary
Brittney Griner has publicly used the name Brittney Griner (full name Brittney Yvette Griner) in her career as a high‑profile basketball player [1]. Across the reporting provided, Griner is consistently described as using she/her pronouns; several contemporary outlets and biographical summaries state she uses she/her [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7].
1. Public name used in reporting and records
Official and widely cited biographical entries list her as Brittney Yvette Griner and refer to her throughout her career under that name, including sports records and profiles [1]; the sources supplied do not present an alternate public name used professionally at length during her career [1].
2. Pronouns reported consistently as she/her
Multiple independent items in the dataset explicitly state that Griner uses she/her pronouns and frame that usage as longstanding: a podcast-style item that rejects claims she identifies as male notes she “has consistently used she/her pronouns” [2], and several news and explainer pieces repeat that she uses she/her [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]. These sources present she/her as the pronouns most commonly associated with Griner in public discourse [2] [3].
3. Reports about non‑binary identity and the nuance in recent coverage
Some pieces in the sample characterize Griner as non‑binary while still stating she uses she/her pronouns—for example, at least two sources describe Griner as non‑binary but say she uses she/her [8] [9]. Those reports indicate a distinction between gender identity (non‑binary) and pronoun choice (she/her) in the way they describe her, but the supplied snippets do not include direct quotations from Griner explaining that framing, nor do they show a consistent timeline or primary-source statement from Griner confirming a self‑description as non‑binary [8] [9].
4. Claims contradicted or absent in the provided reporting
Several outlets in the set explicitly push back on misreports that Griner has shifted to he/him pronouns or “undergone a gender transition,” asserting there is no evidence of that and reaffirming she/her as her pronouns [2]. The dataset contains no sourced examples of Griner publicly adopting he/him or another set of pronouns; it also lacks primary-source excerpts (interviews, social posts, or team statements) within these snippets that lay out any changes in pronoun preference over time, so conclusions must rely on reporting summaries rather than direct quotes [2] [3] [4] [5].
5. What the evidence in these sources supports and what remains unclear
The preponderance of the supplied reporting identifies Griner by the name Brittney Griner and with she/her pronouns [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]. A minority of items introduce the label “non‑binary” while still ascribing she/her pronouns to her [8] [9], illustrating how identity labels and pronoun usage can be reported separately. However, the provided materials do not include a direct, dated public statement from Griner that outlines any evolution of her self‑identification or pronoun preferences, so reporting beyond “she/her” rests on secondary‑source characterization rather than verifiable primary declarations in this set [8] [9] [1].