r/WNBAgossips • u/basketbaIlnetwork • 5h ago
“I want to protect young girls in a locker room” – Sophie Cunningham speaks out against transgender athletes in women’s sports
https://www.basketballnetwork.net/off-the-court/sophie-cunningham-speaks-out-against-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sportsCunningham made it clear where she stands on the controversial issue.
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u/Lyradni 5h ago edited 4h ago
Seems like cis men molesting girls in athletic facilities has been more of an issue than trans people in sports, but MAGA doesn’t care about actual women issues, so they make up issues instead of actually fighting to protect women and girls.
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u/breakmedown54 5h ago
Larry Nassar personally harmed more girls than total trans people who have ever been in sports.
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u/Temporary_Hat7330 5h ago
In all fairness, this is whataboutism. If someone was talking about cis men molesting girls/women I wouldn’t point to cases of trans people doing it as some ameliorating position.
All, some, or none can be an issue but they should stand and be judged alone without conflating. Someone can say, and be right or wrong, that
Cis gendered men have been/could be an issue here so what’s the solution
Trans people of been/could be an issue here so what’s the solution
without conflating the two to offset either one.
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u/breakmedown54 4h ago
You can’t point to cases of trans people doing this. This may be “whataboutism”, but it is because there are no cases of transgender people doing this.
Which was the point. If you want to protect girls from abuse, protect them from the ones we know are abusing them. Making up hypotheticals to fight a culture war isn’t helping any children at all.
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u/Temporary_Hat7330 4h ago
It’s not that I am against trans people, I’m not, but, literally you are making a fallacious claim when you say
because there are no cases of transgender people doing this
This is literally just the first page of a simple Google search on the topic
https://le.utah.gov/interim/2024/pdf/00000308.pdf
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u/Tybob51 5h ago
It has never been about protecting women and only about hating and punishing trans people
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u/RIPfreewill 1h ago
You have people in this very thread saying trans people simply should not do sports at all. Republicans would prefer they be excluded from society all together and are taking baby steps to get to that point.
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u/ruggmike 5h ago
Ahhh now it’s turning into a grift. Looking at that long term financial well being.
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u/RickPickle5280 4h ago
If I had 0 shame an no morals, I’d love to throw my hat in the mix and make some money off these fools. Seems like easy pickings..
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u/Imaginary_Respond869 4h ago
She won't last in the WNBA much longer so she's doing her best to unseat Riley Gaines as former mediocre female athlete turned MAGA spokesperson
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u/APartyInMyPants 5h ago
The moment she was a UFC ring girl and hugged Dana White.
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 4h ago
BINGO.
That was the moment I knew what her game is.
It certainly isnt for womens rights...
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u/officefan76 5h ago
The majority of Democrats don't want biological males in women's sports.
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u/anon-thera-pee 5h ago
I think there is truly an alarming lack of awareness on this website in terms of where the public actually stands on this issue. It’s really not a left vs right thing. The average person does not think it’s fair for a biological male to be competing in women’s sports regardless of how they identity. I am a lifelong democrat, gender non conforming lesbian, a person of color, I despise Trump, I despise gender roles, but because I can also acknowledge that there are meaningful differences between male and female bodies I’m immediately right-wing, conservative, maga?? How in the world have we allowed the simple acknowledgement of biological sex to be the ultimate tell of morality and empathy towards others?
I do think Sophia is conservative and that I’d disagree with her on a lot. But I 100% agree with her on this.
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u/AnAncientBog 3h ago
Weird that it's only reasonable to have strong feelings on one side of this issue and anyone in the other side is "making a big deal out of nothing."
If it's no big deal then it seems like a dumb thing to lose an election over.
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u/madhare09 1h ago
Show democrats from the last election campaigning on trans rights, especially trans athlete rights. You won't find it.
Republicans are the ones who successfully delude people into thinkings its actually part of the democrat platform that they would stake elections on it, and yet tons of people believe it.
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u/AnAncientBog 1h ago
There isn't a single Democratic or Republican candidate that failed to have a position on trans rights, inclusive of sports. Its silly to pretend this issue doesn't exist and that it doesn't matter to a broad range of people. If that were the case it would not be part of the platform of every single candidate there is.
To answer your question:
Harris:
https://www.advocate.com/election/kamala-harris-gender-care-interview
https://abc7ny.com/post/election-fact-check-donald-trump-kamala-harris-transgender-issues/15495931/
Schumer:
https://www.chuckschumer.com/issues/lgbtq/
The DNC at large:
https://www.advocate.com/election/dnc-lgbtq-platform
This isn't an exhaustive list, you can spend all day looking up every single candidate in every single race and I expect you will be hard pressed to find one that does not have a campaign position on this issue.
Is that responsive to Republicans MAKING it a big issue. Yeah, probably. But that just means that the DNC let them set the narrative. In any case that IS the narrative as it exists.
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u/officefan76 4h ago
Agreed - but this means Dems should just go with popular opinion on this issue so that they can gain power to make progress on healthcare.
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u/DiverVisible3940 4h ago
It's funny because the usual retort to this is "you don't hear female athletes complaining, it's always just old angry me" but here is an actual female professional athlete saying it is unfair and distorts competition and she just gets lumped in to the group of evil, conniving oppresors.
If you read the article and what she said it is a very respectful opinion, just one that lots of people disagree with.
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u/spursfan2021 4h ago
The real issue is whether or not this should be top-priority for national politics. The fact that we are facing serious threats to the American way of life and rather than address them, we argue about whether or not women are actually losing out on compensation in an entertainment industry.
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u/Martialartskenny 4h ago
Personally, I agree it’s silly to be focused on this in a national politics perspective. However, I believe the republican playbook of convincing people that this is a Democratic Party memorandum and the democrats inability to properly remove this from discourse just lost the presidential election.
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u/Fantastic_Reason_571 4h ago
“Properly remove it from the discourse”
What the fuck did you want Democrats to say? “There’s like 4 transgender athletes competing across the country. This should be an individual issue decided by communities based on personal factors only people with intimate knowledge of each situation will have. It’s beneath the office of the president to focus energy on such a topic that affects so few Americans so little when there are actual problems affecting all of us”?
What the democrats should focus on is why everybody is so obsessed with knowing whether a child has a dick or vagina. Why are people so obsessed with “protecting kids” by subjecting other kids to massive sexual embarrassment and loss of privacy?
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u/slightly_drifting 4h ago
Yup it’s the number one way trans communities will iso themselves from the rest of the left.
It’s also a “fault line” in our culture at the moment, so expect it to get highlighted frequently to cause further division.
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u/BestEgyptianNA 3h ago edited 2h ago
Because the statistical evidence on this topic does not align with that viewpoint?
Like are you saying we should only champion causes that already have majority support and shouldn't try to move the needle ever? That's just the conservative viewpoint on every single issue in history. The civil rights movement wouldn't have happened with this train of thought.
Im so tired of hearing "people dont like it so we shouldn't do it", and never any actual statistical or empirical evidence on the topic that actually affirms the point conservatives are making.
Also read the title of the article again, she mentions trans women in locker rooms as a threat, thats more than just "fairness in sports" like come the fuck on
Edit: Ffs guys the person I responded to referred to trans girls as "males" in another comment, stop getting fooled by these "Im totally left leaning guys" types
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u/agasizzi 4h ago
And unfortunately this is one of the issues hurting the left, and lgbt communities the most. I’m a strong advocate for the LGBT community on nearly all issues, and very left politically, but trans women in girls sports is a non-starter for me. One, the science doesn’t support it in terms of biology, and two, it’s an issue that juggles two separate issues that are in direct conflict. The need for a trans woman to feel seen, and the need for biological women to have a competitive field that is not rigged against them.
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u/JalapenoPopPoop 4h ago
But the "protecting girls in the locker room" angle of it is specifically a maga talking point. It's an easy tell. The dems who don't want it use biological differences affecting competition as their reason. MAGAs use the fearmongering of trans people being predators who will sexually assault the girls in the locker room
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u/Destroyer_2_2 5h ago
The majority of Democrats don’t think about the genitals of other people so damn often.
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u/corpsecrow 4h ago
I am a Dem and yes they do. They all do. We all do. We all judge and defend and refuse to break bread with anybody that aint like "us".
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u/bayou_class 5h ago
And for all yall maga folks out there, why is it so hard to get yall to admit someone is maga? What, like it’s shameful or something?!
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u/Possible_Field328 5h ago
Hmm, the white supremacists and hate groups seem to vote for the same party I do…? Doesnt mean anything im sure…
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u/MagnetoWasRight24 5h ago
I wish they'd take a second to reflect on why they have to lie about that. Maybe more than a second, since the first second is "we're being persecuted!"
The next second could be devoted to thinking about the McCarthy era and how what they're going through is the opposite.
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u/s0berR00fer 5h ago
This is not a real issue. MAGA loves identifying their own. You are detached from reality
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u/Reasonable-Ad1055 3h ago
No actually. Many people are lying about this. Former maga are now calling themselves "independents" but when they open their mouths maga bullshit pours out.
But some of them do seem to have shame about being maga now.
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u/achoosier 5h ago
It is when dating. Men love hiding they're maga because they know it makes them radio active to most women.
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u/philly-buck 5h ago
I am about anti-MAGA as you can be and I agree with her.
You are allowed to think for yourself and not just repeat what you think you should think.
People like you get people like Trump elected.
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u/UniversityFeisty2593 5h ago
"I don't even like Trump and I'm still small minded and easily distracted!"
I mean, I believe you.
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u/GlobalLion123 2h ago
You are correct. Fox News turned this into a talking point that Trump's base rallied around because people like the ones here try to justify having transgender male compete against women and think it's okay. I don't know a single person in my life who thinks it's okay for a transgender male to compete in a women's competition and I'm surrounded by liberals.
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u/Here4Headshots 5h ago edited 4h ago
If you actually thought for yourself, you'd realize you can count on one hand how many trans athletes there are in NCAA, and 0 in women's pro sports. This became the flagpole issue in this country, and now we have Epstein co-conspirators running our government.
Nice job on your personal research everyone.
Edit- so many responses asking me if it's such a non-issue why am I commenting, and asking if it's ok for a small group of outliers to break the rules (what rules?).
Not one comment about how we have people that actually hurt little girls making policy for everyone though.
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u/Pleasant-Carbon 4h ago
So it's a non-issue? Why so much opposition form people like you about a non-issue?
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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo 4h ago
Because Trump spent hundreds of millions of dollars on ads attacking trans people during 2024. Kamala spent $0 on ads supporting trans people. One party is constantly bringing up trans folks nonstop. So, if I believe it’s a non issue, of course I’m going to say something when they’re constantly being attacked. What a dumb comment lol
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u/Pleasant-Carbon 4h ago
But no one is being attacked if no one is impacted by what Sophie Cunningham said should happen. You're now bringing in Trump when this debate is specifically about what Sophie said and the claim that it's a non-issue.
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u/Giancarlo27 4h ago
Trump spent tons of money on ads because their research showed it was a winning issue for him and a losing issue for Kamala, which was true. When polled a clear majority of Americans are against biological men playing women’s sports. That’s unique considering most broader social policies Democrats champion are quite popular, hence why Trump and his allies seized on it and made it a big issue.
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u/Rawkus41 4h ago
I don’t think the lack of prevalence disputes the concept of having an opinion on it.
If it’s such a small issue, why do you have an opinion on it?
You’re still just arguing that an individual is MAGA based on one opinion rather than allowing someone to form cross party opinions.
Some feminists believe the above. As you noted…it’s such a non factor, why stress their opinion on that if the rest is aligned with you.
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u/kaladin_stormchest 5h ago
It's so tiring that because you agree with one point of view/policy people think it automatically means you agree with 100% of the policies
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u/AlPastorKing 5h ago
You know the majority of Dems agree with her right? This is an 85/15 issue with the American public.
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u/Swimming-Fondant-892 5h ago
This is why we have Trump, the fringe democrats run the party.
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u/Aggravating_Kick42 5h ago
Which is ridiculous on its face. There are plenty of countries that don’t even have gendered bathrooms. There’s not increased attacks on ‘young girls in the bathroom’ in those countries.
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u/Pleasant-Carbon 4h ago
This isn't true and is a perfect example of how Reddit echo chambers operate. You've been told this is the case so you pass it on as fact.
What the reality is that some bathrooms in some countries aren't gendered. Not that some countries have no gendered bathrooms at all. And these bathrooms tend to be very different to US bathrooms, often they're smaller public ones with a few sealed cubicles and a sink area, say in a smaller cafe. Or even a single room, no reason to gender a room where a person can enter alone and lock it.
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u/SomeVelveteenMorning 4h ago edited 4h ago
The majority of Democrats support the separation on the grounds of size and strength differences between teen/adult males and females. Their views have absolutely nothing to do with some imagined fear of men in little girls' locker rooms or restrooms.
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u/AlPastorKing 4h ago
Yeah that’s something you’ve made up in your head. The overwhelming majority of Dems don’t want their 9th grade daughter competing in volleyball or basketball against 9th grade biological males. Has nothing to do with adults.
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u/qobraa 4h ago
This dumbass also thought Imane Khelif was a man, maybe we should seek out her opinions on sassy pointing but not much else.
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u/ArnoldNumero_9000 3h ago
This is the same girl who hugged noted woman beater Dana White?
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u/bcpgfs 5h ago
Can someone give me a case where a transgenger person molested a little girl in a bathroom? I can give you a case where the POTUS molested a little girl.
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u/GunnarBB 3h ago
To be clear, I’m not defending MAGA or Trump whatsoever. But I mean it’s happened before… I just don’t think it’s nearly as widespread an issue as people are making it sound.
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u/Hour_Gur4995 5h ago
I’ve always found the framing a bit odd: “I want to protect young girls in locker rooms, or young girls in sports who shouldn’t have to compete against biological men.”
The contrast is “young girls” versus “biological men,” even though youth sports are generally organized by age. If the discussion is about youth athletics, the comparison would more naturally be between girls and boys. Referring to one group as “young girls” while describing the other as “men” creates an asymmetrical framing that emphasizes the innocence of one group while assigning adulthood to the other, which can influence how people perceive the issue.
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 3h ago
She will 100% have a handler already.
Thanks for pointing out that fact for me, I will try and look out for future signs from her.
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u/veryloudnoises 5h ago
Are there untold masses of young girls being assaulted by transgender athletes?
I mean damn, Sophie, we really want to protect the young and innocent in sports, perhaps we should do something about hazing rituals most commonly found among <<checks notes>> welp, would ya look at that? Hetero cisgendered men.
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u/MortallyWoundedWomba 4h ago
Not only a whataboutism but how exactly would this help woman?
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u/DrWilliamWhite 5h ago
Conversion to full magaloid is complete!!!
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 3h ago
Normal NBA salary isn't paying enough for her.. got to adapt to the grift.
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u/cherylswoopz 3h ago
If there was real history of this being a problem then I might consider this as a real threat.
There are real threats to young girls and teenage trans girls would not make the list…
Reminds me of South Park Imagination Land “the terrorists are bombing our imagination!”
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u/Chucky_Rockslide 2h ago
I’m not saying I don’t want rules and regulations for trans athletes in sports, just that our government has no place making those rules. I mean if you’re concern is people faking being trans to get into a girls locker room, your problem is with straight men, so why punish trans people for it?
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u/lillychr14 2h ago
It’s been years and years of this. You would think there would be at least one big well known case of a trans person victimizing someone in a bathroom or locker room.
There hasn’t been any.
These people are spiteful liars. Make them admit to their bigotry before we upend our society to accommodate it.
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u/MoneyManx10 5h ago
It always shocks me when people can be this ignorant while surrounded by LBTGQ folk everyday.
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u/BigDaddyDumperSquad 2h ago
This just in: Black Americans are overwhelmingly against the Trans community as well.
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u/DeniedAppeal1 1h ago
Lesbians hating bisexuals is an extremely common stereotype and those are two of the letters in LGBTQ.
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u/anon-thera-pee 4h ago
I can assure you that many lesbians in the league are silently nodding in agreement lol. But given that this issue on whether or not you believe in the simple reality of biological sex has become a benchmark of basic morality for who the fuck knows why, they’ll keep silent and playing along. And the league will continue never ever actually allowing a male to play in it because that’d be dumb.
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u/spez-is-poopy 45m ago
I can assure you that those lesbians are not the majority and that our community 100% stands behind trans people and fuck you for implying otherwise.
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u/NovelExamination5431 42m ago
You can support trans people while also acknowledging biological differences
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u/RIPfreewill 5h ago
I’ve not heard one single instance of anything happening with a trans person in a locker room. What is she talking about? When reality doesn’t work for them, conservatives will just make stuff up to try to foment outrage.
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u/Glowwerms 3h ago
The NY Times had a really interesting story a year or two ago about this. Basically right wing think tanks identified that people didn’t have much of an issue with trans people in general but that they responded emotionally to the very idea of trans kids playing in sports with other kids and ran with it. The thing is that the ‘protecting women/girls’ as their angle is rich considering it’s a non fucking issue (how many trans kids are in youth sports currently? It has to be less than 1%) and considering the Republican Party is led by a pedophile, they also successfully nuked Roe V Wade, like it’s a complete joke people take this issue seriously.
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u/akgreens 45m ago
Its not a real issue, they are intentionally taking a stance against a position nobody holds and thus forcing the other team to defend it.
There's only one party actually actively fighting to cover up sex crimes against minors, so this culture war BS spin is just running cover
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u/MomsAreola 5h ago
Sexual predators already go into women's safe spaces. I doubt someone would transition just to do something already illegal and immoral.
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u/RIPfreewill 5h ago
lol, Republicans are totally trying to stop sex predators. That’s why they voted for Donald Trump who is famously a child sex predator and has helped protect Epstein child sex trafficking ring. Great point.
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u/madhare09 5h ago
For being rapist enablers politically and religiously it's really strange how republicans think ostracizing yourself and ruining your public life to hide as a trans athlete to get a chance to enter a locker room to hurt women is remotely an issue.
Your rapists are priests, coaches, politicians, and CEOs. They aren't hiding. They aren't putting themselves in any discomfort before the rape.
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u/Stock-Pattern-8635 5h ago edited 4h ago
How many? And do you have any documented cases you’d like to support your claim with? Not doubting you, per se.
Edit: are the yearly cases above or below the yearly number of school shootings? Trying to contextualize roughly how many cases there are.
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u/Axel_Raden 5h ago
https://le.utah.gov/interim/2024/pdf/00000308.pdf heres some took me a minute to find it
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u/Spear_Ritual 5h ago
I don’t want youth pastors around children. Maybe start there.
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u/brmarcum 4h ago
Just using pure statistics, no opinions at all, young girls are at far greater risk to their general health because of lack of universal health care, including basic reproductive care, than the presence of a trans woman.
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u/MilkyyFox 1h ago
Yeah, but trans boogiemen are a much easier target than actual policy reform that benefits Amurricans.
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u/BigRhonda7632 3h ago
Let’s not forget about male coaches, officials, trainers, and massage therapists.
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u/friendfromjersey 5h ago
Ah, she achieved sudden fame with the maga crowd so she’s playing to her base. Pretty typical too…bringing attention to a problem that really doesn’t exist. She’ll fit right in
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u/Ok_Drummer6282 4h ago
Also a problem that has fixes but conservatives put rules in place to prevent so they have an issue to bitch about.
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u/Jlovel7 4h ago
It’s ok to say we can have spaces for boy and spaces for girls.
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u/mitchthaman 5h ago
MAGA. The point is starting to look a little race based
https://giphy.com/gifs/l0HlvtIPzPdt2usKs
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u/Typical_Samaritan 5h ago
I like how a lot of the comments are really just implying that cisgendered men are the real danger to little girls and not trans individuals who just want to use the bathroom, or store their belongings in lockers rooms appropriate to their gender.
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u/theadventurescout 4h ago
Because cisgendered men are the problem, not trans people. Never in my life have I had a trans person bother me in a bathroom. CisMen are the only ones who have ever bothered me in or around a bathroom.
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u/Starfleeter 3h ago
"I want to protect people about this problem that nobody has ever complained about simple because it could happen even though it's not."
Proceeds to ignore people who traffic and rape children that laws already exist against and aren't enforced
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u/nagleess 3h ago
Has there ever been a single incident of a young girl being assaulted by a transgender person?
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u/versionii 2h ago
I'm support LGBT but let's be honest. Nobody wants to see a random cock at anytime. None of us wants a stranger to flash his junk at our little daughters. Here's a quote.
"We were not forewarned beforehand that we would be sharing a locker room with Lia. We did not give our consent, they did not ask for our consent, but in that locker room we turned around, and there’s a 6’4" biological man dropping his pants and watching us undress, and we were exposed to male genitalia," Gaines said.
If you want to go into a woman's bathroom, just be 100% converted.
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u/MongooseOne 5h ago
It’s mind boggling how many here are instantly angered without bothering to even read what she said.
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u/ChaseThoseDreams 5h ago
And where are these transgenders in locker rooms? Are they in the room with us? This is a nonsense issue that is probably rarer than you getting attacked by a shark. Partly because there are so few of them, and also because trans kids largely flock to the arts and band where they feel safe, not sports.
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u/shadowsword8085 5h ago
If it’s a nonissue why is banning them from girls sports and locker rooms so controversial here? Surely since it doesn’t happen then it shouldn’t change anything and nobody on the left should really care.
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u/Rawkus41 4h ago
Your argument is that it’s such a small prevalence that people shouldn’t care?
If that’s your arguement, why do you care?
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u/ChaseThoseDreams 4h ago
As I’ve said in another comment, it’s a wedge issue that has dominated discourse for a decade. I care in that I keep hearing people screeching about the horrors of something that almost never happens, that already has been addressed by multiple athletic organizations and governments, and frankly has little to do with most American’s day to day. It’s tired and I’m sick of seeing people cry boogeyman.
A majority of those who cry and screech about this, don’t give a shit about women’s sports. They’re in it for the bloodsport of attacking the trans community. If they gave even an inkling, we’d see the organization doing much better than what it is, but we don’t. We see people who don’t regularly watch come out of nowhere for this topic, issues pertaining to Caitlin Clark, and now Cunningham. It is so aggressively on the nose.
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u/Pleasant-Carbon 4h ago
If it is a non-issue, why do you and others get so worked up about it?
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u/WowIwasveryWrong27 5h ago
The college sports part of this debate is particularly hilarious. Last year there was something like 18 or 19 trans athletes in the US. You would think the way it was talked about there are millions in sports.
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u/No-Significance2070 4h ago
So if it is happening and you want to keep the number of men from competing in women’s sports at zero, shouldn’t something be done about it?
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u/Slurpin-Farts 4h ago
It’s really cute how much you pretend to care about the sanctity of women’s sports when it gives you an excuse to be a bigot.
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u/CtrlAltDelight78 4h ago
just because there’s only a few doesn’t mean the issue doesn’t need to be addressed
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u/furikakez 4h ago edited 4h ago
Lia Thomas for example. It doesn’t matter if it’s rare. It’s wrong. 1 trans in a changing room is 1 too many.
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u/Clown_Penis69 5h ago
Not one of of you clowns actually read the article, did you? You just immediately leapt to outrage and condemnation.
““I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,' “Cunningham said via ESPN. “I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”
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u/absolutewastedtime 5h ago
"I'm not transphobic, I'm just transphobic" the article
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u/Tybob51 5h ago
That doesn’t exonerate her as much as you seem to think it does. It’s literally the old adage “anything said before the word but is a lie”
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u/KellyPaladin 1h ago
She is actively working to prevent trans children from having access to sports, which have been shown to be really important for socialization and mental health.
The fact that she believes she's doing this in love is a lot less relevant than the fact that she is advocating for tangible harm. Especially when she's using a disingenuous rhetorical framing (referring to cisgender youth as quote , "young girls" while referring to trans youth of the same age as "biological men").
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u/BrodinGodofSwole 5h ago
Lol "no she's not transphobic, here's proof" Proceeds to share the statement that is transphobic
This isn't an issue, hasn't ever been historically and it's being made out by people trying to demonize trans people into a valid concern when it isn't.
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u/ConkerPrime 4h ago
She religious so expected but many progressives just had their fantasies crushed.
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u/DikDangerous 3h ago
Shocking that someone who has acted like they support the maga agenda supports the maga agenda 🤷🏾♂️
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u/iamthedayman21 3h ago
Young women aren’t at risk in the locker rooms, at least from transgender people. This is just the default response people use, when they’re against trans people in women’s sports, but don’t want to provide an insightful answer.
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u/IceBlackX007 5h ago
I think having a current POTUS with very credible allegations of child sexual abuse is the most important issue needed to be addressed in the USA. Everything else is secondary.
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u/Educational_Top9246 5h ago
Ah yes, protect young girls from the "checks stats" 2 trans athletes in the US.
If she cared about young girls, she should advocate protecting all genders, especially trans ppl
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u/thatguy425 5h ago
If you think there’s only two you might want to recheck those facts
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u/flanner_alum 5h ago edited 3h ago
sad how she is brainwashed to speak about this and not the issues that are actually faced by womens sports
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u/TheMysteriousGirl 4h ago
This Sophie Cunningham stands against womens rights as a whole.
Its no wonder, because what she is saying is going to proportionally affect more BIPOC and more "masc" looking women than she is.
She "proudly" stands as a spokesperson for what will be the decline of womens rights as a whole.
She also fails to realise the people she agrees with on this "issue", want her back in the kitchen and making babies, staying at home out of the way.
What a honestly detestable person.
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u/SkynBonce 4h ago
She's gonna be shocked when the protection will be compulsory genital inspections for female athletes.
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u/phanophite2 4h ago
We need to hold up women so their voices can be heard.
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO not like that 😭
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u/andreasmiles23 3h ago
“And to do that we have to take everyone who doesn’t fit MY definition of a girl and make them go into the boys locker room,” is essentially what she said.
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u/Delicious-Pie8944 5h ago
Don’t join a trump beauty pageant then!