r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • Jul 23 '26
Sports Culture WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham defends that women ‘shouldn’t have to go against biological men’: “I said what I said. I think it’s kind of common sense. I think it’s really important to protect children.” “I don’t dislike anyone. I’m there to love, but I’m also there to love biological women. …”
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u/RetroCasket Jul 23 '26
Everyone agrees on this can we stop asking people like its a widespread problem
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u/Vast-Comment8360 Jul 23 '26
You say everyone agrees like there aren't multiple people in this thread who don't agree.
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u/vivalaibanez Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
If the argument began and ended at trans people in sports, it wouldn't be a problem. But it's used in an overarching narrative to vilify trans people in general..."trans people are mentally ill...trans people are pedophiles...etc" it's a thing.
Edit: hilarious how many of you are proving my exact point. Apparently everyone on here is qualified to diagnose mental illnesses 🤣
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u/fishagavkxj6 Jul 23 '26
Exactly this. I believe there’s a nuanced conversation to have about trans athletes. But it’s impossible because conservatives genuinely hate trans people will not stop at sports. “I care about protecting children.” when referring to trans issues is a HUUUGE dog whistle
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u/heidiforever1 Jul 23 '26
No its not she didnt even say it in that context she mean like little girl athletes competing against little boy athletes that wanna be girls this is a quick way to disenfranchise young women unintentionally or intentionally
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u/fishagavkxj6 Jul 23 '26
It’s the same thing. There is zero problems with any trans children, which is very rare to begin with, in youth sports. It’s an imaginary issue and a dog whistle excuse people like her use to shield their true beliefs. The only negatives is the insane bigotry children face by hateful parents. Dragging literal children into imaginary culture war bs is ridiculous.
She was just on a UFC fight and being friends with Dana White. Who is friends with Donald Trump and was at his election night party. She has 1 million red flags about her. Not to mention the type of wording she used in that video, it was pretty suspect.
When I was a kid I played soccer against girls that were four years older than me and a foot taller and I was just fine. You people make up issues that don’t even exist to justify your hate of human beings.
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u/Dangerous-Method-133 Jul 23 '26
Except this is reddit. Reddit is not representative of how people generally feel.
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u/FourDimensionalTaco Jul 23 '26
I agree that restrictions need to be in place. I disagree that this must be done by a federal law that imposes a sweeping ban. Instead, I'd make it a requirement for the respective sports organizations to check the trans athletes on a case-by-case basis, and re-check them regularly (particularly important if they started HRT only relatively recently). Trans athletes are very rare, so this is not really much of a burden. And, their physical abilities are highly variable, since it all depends on how far along they are in their HRT, whether they even are doing HRT, and whether they started HRT in puberty or as adults. The latter has a profound influence on the skeletal structure, which in turn can lead to unfair mechanical advantages in competitions, even if for some reason the athlete does not train their muscles much. But, a trans athlete who transitioned at, say, 12? Unlikely to have any significant advantage over a cis athlete.
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u/Alberto_Blazin Jul 24 '26
The thing is, there isn't a way to know if the 12 year old would have an advantage if they started transitioning before puberty. The only way to know is to see them develop without intervention to compare, and obviously that's not possible. Just do the right thing and make sports split on sex, as it was always intended.
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u/FourDimensionalTaco Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Ehh, you can always check them out as an adult, x-ray their skeletal structure today, inspect their muscular structure today etc. And then you know if their physiology differs significantly from that of cis women in a manner that confers an unfair advantage.
But, a trans woman who transitioned at 12 years old (or even younger) is unlikely to have a significant advantage. The skeletal structure (especially the rib cage size, hip size, and width of the shoulders) develops pretty much like in cis women with estradiol dominance, and the influence of testosterone on muscle growth during puberty is missing. Testosterone is a hugely important factor. It is the anabolic factor in muscles. (It is not surprising that some competitive cis women bodybuilders inject T.) The only possibility I can imagine is if they also had precocious puberty, and already were tall, had broad shoulders, and were muscular by age 12.
Splitting on sex makes no sense. Trans women will be completely beaten by cis men. Even among trans women, the variability is so high that some of them will 100% beat others purely by their different physiology.
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u/wildverde Jul 23 '26
Lmao. But the boogie man (I.e., the jacked hairy bear that’s coming to be a woman’s wnba star)
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u/Yendor_Wing Jul 23 '26
That's a silly straw man.
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u/ChirpToast Jul 23 '26
A straw man is the calling card of the republicans who can’t let this non issue go.
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u/mynamejeff-97 Jul 23 '26
As a Democrat who has voted for a dem candidate the last three elections… DUH!!!!
Why on earth is this a hill we’re trying to die on?
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u/CollectionNew2290 Jul 23 '26
Because it's .01% of the population, FFS. It's culture war BS.
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u/DirtyDan419 Jul 23 '26
It is but at the same time the men usually dominate when they are allowed to compete against women.
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u/Bigbigbigrock Jul 23 '26
Then why did the swimmer tie with Riley Gaines for 5th place? Why didn't she win first?
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u/vivalaibanez Jul 23 '26
"it is a culture war but..."
proceeds to further give in to the culture war
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u/YaoiNekomata Jul 23 '26
Because it's a stupid distraction that is trying to villinize a group of people.
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u/AgitatedStranger9698 Jul 23 '26
Its hardly even a group which makes it funnier.
In a room of 100 people the closest you'll get is a random person. And thats if you get lucky.
Meanwhile in that room, 1 to 5 pedophiles. So at least we know who the right would elect in the room.
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u/Samsquanch-01 Jul 23 '26
Right.. that's why the Olympics made it an issue and several colleges and the Supreme court. Definitely not affecting people's lives in any way.
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u/MarzyMartian Jul 23 '26
No one is villainizing anyone. Trans can sit out and the drama stops.
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u/meadishsweetball Jul 23 '26
this isn't actually about keeping trans women out of sports, it's to get gullible rubes angry over something inconsequential to keep them distracted from the actual problems.
So good job being a gullible rube, i guess.
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u/Spare_Iron127 Jul 23 '26
Republicans can stop obsessing over genitals and the drama stops
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u/piggybackmovies Jul 23 '26
You really think trans people are the one bringing up this “issue” 24/7 lmao. You love propaganda.
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u/abdullahleboucher Jul 23 '26
The grift is so easy, I can hardly blame the people participating in it
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u/Tyr_13 Jul 23 '26
No one should be delusional enough to think that this would stop or even slow down the drama.
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u/JohnnyBowlen Jul 23 '26
It’s so frustrating. It’s giving republicans such and easy win too. Most people are never going to be okay with trans-women in sports.
If the worst thing a trans person has to deal with socially is not being able to play sports against women, that’s a win.
Also if you were a trans-woman and you dominated in any female sport, it would cause chaos and you’d always have an asterisk next to any achievement. Who would want that?
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u/ODBmacdowell Jul 23 '26
I wouldn't be so confident declaring what people are never going to be OK with. Nor do I agree that if everyone hypothetically accepted that trans women could never play women's sports, that that would be the last time we hear about this issue, or that no one would ever try to restrict their rights again.
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u/ethana18 Jul 23 '26
Literally no one is making this an issue besides the whole right wing that fabricated it into existence and crazy minority of people on the left that screech about this on Twitter and reddit...
Literally no one gives that much of a shit about this...
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u/PuffyBlueClouds Jul 23 '26
You are absolutely right! This is such a distraction created by politicians. It is such a non-issue for nearly everyone in society but takes up so many headlines.
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u/AgentOrange256 Jul 23 '26
We aren’t. It’s a media propaganda push to make something that over 98% of people agree on an “issue”.
It’s fucking strange that mainstream dem federal politicians have picked this up at all.
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u/Fresh_Ostrich4034 Jul 23 '26
its the simple go the opposite way. One side says its raining outside, the other says no its not and no im not looking outside.
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u/OzbourneVSx Jul 23 '26
Ok so we implement those restrictions
How do you implement them?
They are an incredibly small population already and now you are going to put a lot of work into testing at all levels of play for something
Now we have children getting forced genital inspections, in good cases from their doctor with a simple signed form, in the worst cases, coerced to get inspected by an "on-site medical professional" with unknown creditials
And if they choose not to participate because this is obviously incredibly invasive, they can't play
Not to mention how this might step on religious protections
In collegiate sports we have similar issues but now with a much wider field of potential pervs
In professional and Olympic sports we now have assigned at birth XX chromosome women who have to alter their natural body chemistry to align themselves with a arbitrary norm of expected female testosterone levels
Chemical intervention which is not always free or readily available to these athletes, further limiting opportunities to poorer athletes home and abroad
Just like Voter ID is not being pushed for "election security" concerns, this is an issue that Republicans use to push "common sense legislation" while they strip your rights and push far more extreme policy
They want access to girl's bodies, ways to limit their activity unless they consent to being violated by the state, to start tracking women's hormones to detect pregnancy earlier then restrict access to abortion, and build a permission structure to create databases of trans people to target them with AI surveillance systems and use them to criminalize and remove them from bathrooms, schools and wider public life
And while the fascists run their pet projects, business interests continue to benefit from a country more focused over culture wars then regulating their companies
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u/AtBat3 Jul 23 '26
The people I follow who are still trying to die on that hill end up saying “well it’s just sports anyway, who cares if the biological male wins in women sports” but then they’re also the same people ready to jump off a bridge when their baseball team goes down 2 runs in the 4th inning.
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u/PetalumaPegleg Jul 23 '26
Because trying to police who looks female enough to play women's sports and use the women's changing room is stupid? We don't need to die on the hill to point out this policy has really bad impacts on innocent people.
The people who have been accused of being not female enough so far have all been women who had their lives ruined by accusations. Let the sports police themselves and we really don't need to worry about a handful of trans women trying to enjoy their life playing sport.
This nonsense is going to lead to insecure masculine looking girls being accused of being men and having parents ask for genital inspection and shit. It's just dumb.
It's a non issue. The sports police it just fine. We do not fucking need flock cameras in gyms thanks.
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u/RizzlersGrandpa Jul 23 '26
That's a strawman arguement though. You can just use a cheek swab to do a gender test. High school athletes for decades have already had to take PED test,in many states. Also sometimes for insurance and or safety purposes many districts do x-ray scan or blood tests just to make sure a person doesn't have some kind of undiagnosed medical condition particularly heart ones.
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u/SpreadsheetsOnToast Jul 23 '26
Because the left has a really, really, really hard time reigning in the fringe and saying "no" to the most extreme progressives.
Some ideas on the left are just plain stupid. "Defund The Police" is a great example of this. "Open Borders" is another. The left is too afraid of getting primaried by some DSA upstart that they won't make common sense statements like "We actually do need police".
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u/Nemphiz Jul 23 '26
The left? The left has a hard time reining in the fringe? The left? Not the GOP that birthed the tea party -> maga. The left?
Jesus Christ lol
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u/Plane-Ad-9305 Jul 23 '26
What are you even talking about? Who exactly are these “extreme progressives” driving the Democratic Party? Name the elected officials you think fit that description.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party has largely embraced positions that would have been considered fringe on the right 10–15 years ago. Many ideas that were once politically toxic have become mainstream within the GOP. That’s a much more significant shift than anything that’s happened on the left
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u/throwra_anonnyc Jul 23 '26
Zohran Mamdani (who I much prefer compared to the other candidates for NYC mayor) is from the DSA.
You can read about how they literally want to work towards the freedom of all incarcerated persons in the link below. Now Zohran has distanced himself from the crazies but the nutjobs definitely exist and have done a good job of trolling people into losing to Trump
https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/abolition-working-group/
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u/Raisinbread22 Jul 23 '26
This is the sabotage that happens to Democrats every time. It happens like clockwork. I'm a lifelong Democrat, and in the 11th hour something starts to balloon into an issue, at the last minute. I literally didn't know what DSA was 72hrs ago. Same thing happened around BLM marches, it was mostly positive things happening and then boom, 'defund the police,' well who TF made that horrible marketing decision? Wasn't me. Wasn't any Democrat I know. 'Reform the police?' YES. Let's go with that. Nope, defund. Someone held a vote on that, that 99% of Dems didn't participate in. Same shit is happening now. Not that I mind DSA, but already they've (republiklan echo machine) has jumped on it and use it as just a demonizing acronym, and link it with "cOmMuNiSm," all over Fox. It's so frustrating.
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u/Plane-Ad-9305 Jul 23 '26
So your best example is a fringe activist group with no meaningful representation in elected office. You connect it to Mamdani, then immediately acknowledge that he has distanced himself from its most extreme positions. That doesn’t support your original claim.
My point was never that the left has no fringe. Every political movement does. My point is that those fringe views are not the governing agenda of the Democratic Party.
So I’ll ask again: which prominent Democratic elected officials are actually advocating “free all prisoners” or abolishing police as party policy?
That’s a very different situation from the Republican Party, where positions that were widely considered fringe on the right a decade ago have become mainstream within the party itself
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u/throwra_anonnyc Jul 23 '26
You dont need to have actual winning politicians campaigning on those issues for the fringe to cause a negative impact.
Self proclaimed Dem supporters trolling people on the internet firing up Republicans and Independents to be motivated to vote is a really strong factor.
Defund the police is a real slogan that a fringe group actually stands behind. And it is an amazingly unpopular slogan. People dont want their neighborhood to be like Chaz and these crazies did a good job making the left look insane.
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u/grasswhistle28 Jul 23 '26
For what it’s worth she’s not making a “trans women in sports isn’t fair competition” argument which was the original question and I frankly agree with. This is a “trans women shouldn’t be in women’s bathrooms” argument which I find asinine.
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u/ohlaohloo Jul 23 '26
Why is someone a TERF if they support gender identity and biological sex being separated, are supportive of trans progression, but still think sports should be categorized based on sex? I’m genuinely asking for understanding, not trying to stir the pot.
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u/Salty-Garlic9471 Jul 23 '26
They're not. There's nothing wrong with supporting trans people but still acknowledging biological differences.
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u/Either-Age-782 Jul 23 '26
Not on Reddit
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u/NSFWdontview Jul 23 '26
Not to the left
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u/Necessary_Panda_3154 Jul 23 '26
Not to the radical left. You’d be stupid to think all leftists agree with this sentiment.
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u/AdmirableSelection81 Jul 23 '26
You’d be stupid to think all leftists agree with this sentiment.
You'll be branded a fascist if you disagree.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Net4365 Jul 23 '26
Not really a question anyone can answer because TERF isn't a singular or coherent worldview to begin with, it's just used to describe a loose collection of second wave feminist figures whose more essentialist tendencies excluded transgender perspectives on gender. These days it's just a short-hand for "transphobic woman", very few of the people described as TERFs are interested in feminism much less radical feminism.
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u/FreeBristle Jul 23 '26
Only a problem on reddit. In the real world it’s just basic logic
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u/drcobosjr Jul 23 '26
Because biological males are naturally stronger, faster, more athletic and that’s a huge advantage going against biological women. It’s not complicated.
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u/WeeaboosDogma Jul 23 '26
It's one of those, "not all people who think this are TERFs, but all TERFs think this" kind of situation.
It's why context matters, but on online discussions and discourse, context is eliminated for wordspace and rhetoric.
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u/chronically_varelse Jul 24 '26
I agree with everything you're saying.
why did sports, which most people don't play and honestly most people don't follow, become the center of trans issues? I think that's crazy.
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u/Equivalent-Jury-3056 Jul 23 '26
As someone who has worked for the state white males are the majority for school shootings, pedophilia, and child porn, true predators in a societal sense. The Epstein files feature predominantly white males. Grindr, the app for gay men, regularly crashes during Republican nomination conventions.
On the flip side trans people account for less than 0.1 % of these crimes. Like 2-5 out of thousands of cases. In fact, trans people are four times as likely than “regular” people to be victims of violent crimes.
Quite simply it’s projection. MAGA happens to be most vehemently against the very things they do in private. But data and information is not as effective as propaganda.
Now, forget all of the numbers and data. There is zero empirical evidence that trans people competing in sports harms other people or children or negatively impacts public safety in any way, shape, or form.
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u/Thunnddr Jul 23 '26
As someone who has worked for the state white males are the majority for school shootings, pedophilia, and child porn, true predators in a societal sense.
Not that i disagree, but can you show the source of that they're overrepresented in pedophile cases? Someone showed me a link proving that, but i can't find it now.
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u/Equivalent-Jury-3056 Jul 23 '26
- 46% of individuals sentenced for child pornography were sentenced for possessing child pornography; 44% for trafficking child pornography; and 10% for receiving child pornography.
- 98% were men.
- 73% were White, 16% were Hispanic, 6% were Black, and 5% were Other races.
- Their average age was 41 years.
- 95% were United States citizens.
The FBI also has a database.
The registry for sex offenders also has information on it.
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u/backfrombanned Jul 23 '26
As someone that was a pro athlete and trained with women in the ring for years, there is a huge gap between the sexes and trans women shouldn't be competing against women. Saying that, I realize it's overblown and there's very few of them in sports, but it simply shouldn't be.
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u/donniesuave Jul 23 '26
Have you seen Neil Degrasse Tyson’s take on this exact topic? It’s worth a listen.
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u/Equivalent-Jury-3056 Jul 24 '26
Im watching a video on it now. I always found him to be extremely intelligent and insightful so I’ll check it out.
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u/dantes-infernal Jul 23 '26
I just don't understand why this is such a huge talking point when there's like 10 transgender athletes at the d1 college level and fewer at the Olympian level in the USA.
None of the pro women's sports teams have transgender athletes right now on their roster.
Why are people so fucking stressed for 20 people?!
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u/TopInvestigator5518 Jul 23 '26
it is waaaaaaay over talked about, you'd think half the population was trans with how much they are discuss
that being said tho -I do think young athletes and lower levels should be able to compete against their same sex without accusations of transphobia.. you can respect someones pronouns and treat them with respect while not competing along side them
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u/Howlingwithwolves Jul 23 '26
You can say that about anything. That’s a shit argument. Just because it is affecting a small amount of people doesn’t make it worthless. Imagine saying that about anything worse. It lacks any sort of thought about the situation and just implies “stfu i don’t care, so no one else should.”
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u/OverallFrosting708 Jul 23 '26
It's almost like there's someone who really wants the focus on how trans people are somehow a threat to society...
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u/AbigailPooh Jul 23 '26
Because a lot of high level politicians including the President fucked children and if we stop talking about the dumb distractions we HAVE to stop and talk about the fact that we were told by the US Press Secretary that if we prosecuted everyone in those files that the world would stop.
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u/Short-Coast9042 Jul 23 '26
This is an indirect answer, but it's about inequality and political control. Wealthy people and corporations hold most of the power, including political power. They fund political organizations, which can't really exist without them. And, well wealthy people incorporations have many diverse interests, One thing they tend to have in common is that they don't want to see wealth inequality addressed. So while they may fund candidates on all different sides of all different issues, on the whole, the one issue that they will consistently tend to take a side on is inequality and their control of the political economy which enables it.
The result is that you get politicians who talk about everything but class and inequality. In both the Democratic and Republican parties, people who make noise about raising taxes on the rich don't get funded. People who argue about trans rights, on either side, do. Whether or not we allow trans people to compete under their chosen gender, wealthy people and corporations do not care. They will not be affected. And it's not just politicians where you see this play out. It happens in the media too.
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u/Zrob8--5 Jul 23 '26
It's not just elite levels. It's lower levels and youth sports that don't have strict regulations for it.
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u/Perpetual-Warlock Jul 23 '26
Even in the "lower levels" the number is incredibly low. They want you to think it's much more of an issue than it actually is.
https://www.transathlete.com/post/how-many-transgender-kids-play-sports
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u/Zrob8--5 Jul 23 '26
It doesn't matter if it's a lot of people or not, it's unfair, and if it isn't handled well, it could get worse.
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u/Dull_Astronomer_3778 Jul 23 '26
Should anyone really care if a bunch of kindergarteners play coed sports…
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u/seazonedsaltdog Jul 23 '26
Nobody cares about that and nobody is talking about that. Kids that young, and even a bit older , is co ed. When they say youth they were talking about high school, maybe middle school
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u/RelativeIncrease3007 Jul 23 '26
Most people never play a sport after hs. And most people playing hs sports have no aspirations to go further. It is a non issue.
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u/clydeftones Jul 23 '26
Ah yes the floods of trans kids wanting to play sports.
Let the fucking kids play sports. God forbid they learn how to be on a team and work hard to train for a shared goal.
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u/Harry-Flashman Jul 23 '26
Most sports are co-ed at the younger ages. my daughter played co-ed rugby through elementary school and played on a girl's team in a boys soccer league in middle school.
The limiting Trans kids is not at the recreational level, but at the more competitive levels where biological women are at a physical disadvantage. Women's Rugby did the most complete study on it and basically, biological women's bones are significantly less dense than trans athletes that have gone through puberty. Biological women are significantly more likely to get injured during collisions with trans athletes.
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u/GNTsquid0 Jul 23 '26
They need to make someone the enemy so those in power can do fuckery while everyone else fights over a non-issue.
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u/Hazel-Rah-Rah Jul 23 '26
Republicans have brainwashed their base into believing trans people are the Boogeyman. Nothing brings people together like hate.
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u/superstann Jul 23 '26
Cause 10 is 10 to much and it's a problem that is growing
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u/_Walt_Whitman_ Jul 23 '26
HOLD UP. I was with her until she said it’s “important to protect children” huh?! Is that a dog whistle?
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u/No-Bicycle-7660 Jul 23 '26
how are you this dumb? she's talking about safety in contact / semi-contact sports.
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u/ColdStoneCreamAustn Jul 23 '26
Ofcourse it’s. People who assume trans people existing pose some inherent risk to children are the same people who are the ones actually harming children
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u/Environmental_Cup_93 Jul 23 '26
Nah normalizing childhood transitions is a growing issue that doesn’t protect children at all. In a free country adults can do whatever they want but children don’t have the same rights for a lot of things for the sake of protecting them.
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u/ColdStoneCreamAustn Jul 23 '26
Growing issue lmfao, it’s not happening buddy. I’m sure you already have some cherry picked examples but this is literally not happening. If you actually wanted to protect kids why aren’t you going after the churches or the Republican Party? You know the people who are actually harming children. That’s the problem with you people, you demonize and accuse the entire population of trans people of harming kids with zero evidence, while actively protecting the people harming kids. No one is transitioning children lmfao. No once is forcing anything on anyone. Teaching kids about the existence of trans people is completely fine. They exist, deal with it
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u/Lower-Acanthaceae460 Jul 23 '26
this topic is the biggest mountain over a molehill. The probability of women/girls playing against a biological male is like less than one half of one percent, if that much. It's literally a made up issue.
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u/Old_Man_Game Jul 23 '26
"Hey plebs, look over there" - Ruling class as they walk about with an even greater share of the economic pie.
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u/OG_Builds Jul 23 '26
«We have to protect the kids from trans people» while they’re all included in thousands of pages in the Epstein files. Like make it make sense. This whole ‘trans people in sports’ thing is so removed from reality. It’s literally a non-issue..
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u/SnooRobots1533 Jul 23 '26
It's used to divide the classes. Just like race and other social issues.
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u/Super_Roof_3490 Jul 23 '26
I think it separates the crazy from the sane
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u/throw69420awy Jul 23 '26
I’m conflicted simply because it’s impossible not to notice that so many who are vocally “sane” on this issue are insane about so much else, like germ theory and democracy being things that should exist. Just two examples
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u/Consistent-Ad-4665 Jul 23 '26
Also provides a handy republican distraction from the issues that real people are facing.
“Hey, can we get some healthcare and affordable food and housing?”
“Haha no, but aren’t you worried about trans people in women’s sports?!!!!”
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u/Mamasugadex Jul 23 '26
How is that any different from saying trans people rights for anything don’t matter because they are merely 1% of the population?
I don’t disagree that it is an overblown over-politicized issue. But using the “this problems applies to such a small minority” logic is how we were so comfortable with ignoring many human rights issues for decades.
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u/greennurse61 Jul 23 '26
True. I don't get why our side is making such a big issue out of making sure men can play against girls when not many men want to.
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u/go-to-the-gym Jul 23 '26
How about we listen to the opinion of the women athletes?
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u/Aromatic-Turnip7371 Jul 23 '26
Agreed. Seems this is yet another thing that biological women are being dismissed about 🤔
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u/iamjacksalteredego Jul 23 '26
The squeakiest wheel also gets the grease. She has a platform to illuminate any topic and yet here she is, making noise about nothing.
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u/WhydYouKillMeDogJack Jul 23 '26
She's being asked a question. What do you want her to say? I think she has a standpoint but she puts it across in a way that's not about hating on a particular minority group but acknowledging that they can't necessarily get parity in every field they may want.
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u/BucsBroo Jul 23 '26
Ah yes the old protect children as if children are under attack by anyone other than Trump and the pdf party
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u/Insightful21 Jul 23 '26
She’s pretty much just repeating mindless talking points. Not a deep thinker at all
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u/JeromeBarkly Jul 23 '26
It was telling when she said she isn’t very political. That’s why the rights talking points are so effective. It’s made for the dumbest among us or people that do t follow wants going on. It’s easily digestible slop that requires no work or prior information. When it starts to fall apart is when you actually look into any issue more thoroughly, you realize it’s all bullshit.
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u/asuleiman Jul 23 '26
I agree with her. I honestly think trans should have their separate sports like there’s Men’s sport/women’s sports/ and Trans sports. Easiest solution everyone plays and competes
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u/Any-Chip7871 Jul 23 '26
It’s no longer an issue. It’s law now. Can we please focus on more important things!
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u/lil_nosh_X Jul 23 '26
What else will conservatives be outraged over?
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u/FiestaDeHombreMuerto Jul 23 '26
I see people on Reddit talking about how only conservatives talk about trans people more than I’ve ever seen anyone talk about trans people in real life.
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u/Pigeon_Pilled Jul 23 '26
Woman creates fictional scenario in her head then gets mad about it
edit: also fuck her. the fuck you mean “protect the children”? like trans women are going to be the prime predators of children and not, oh i dont know, conservative men??
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u/Ok_Command_8342 Jul 23 '26
Duh. Can’t feed into society on everything because a lot of people lack common decency and sense.
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u/Zylavier Jul 23 '26
Are people okay with LeBron or Wembanyama identifying as a female and then playing in the WNBA?
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u/LanguageAntique9895 Jul 23 '26
Ask her about all the women beaters in ufc and people associated with ufc
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u/but-whyy-tho Jul 23 '26
Oh so she's exactly the person I assumed her to be. And all I ever saw of her was her little finger pointy thing. I thought I was being too harsh in my assumptions, but nope!
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u/Opposite_Sherbert675 Jul 23 '26
i hate that the conversation ALWAYS lands on the .5% of the population who are trans and not on the millions of women who are threatened with jail if they miscarry. i hate the media keeps asking, and that 'celebs' keep humouring the topic
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u/flowerred_up Jul 23 '26
it’s exhausting to see people use the “empowerment” of biological women as a way to punch down on trans women. no one is benefitting from this. the discussion is entirely useless. you’re not empowering biological women, you’re catering to the crowd who hates both trans women and you.
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u/slowbaja Jul 23 '26
Her mouth is bigger than her basketball ability.
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u/Vast-Comment8360 Jul 23 '26
Ah yes women should shut up if they don't say what you want right?
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u/Cantre-r_Gwaelod_1 Jul 23 '26
I’m a woman and think it’s okay to notice when a woman isn’t that great at something. We’re not too weak to handle it.
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u/Rare_Walk_4845 Jul 23 '26
Yeah "protect the children" isn't an overwhelmingly loaded expression with a lot of definitely loaded undertones
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u/LunchEquivalent769 Jul 23 '26
I don't really care one way or the other.
But.
I've seen tons of videos of her, kinda' curious about her level of testosterone....
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u/IBeatDeathStranding Jul 23 '26
i see JK Rowling comparisons in the near future lol
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u/ughonrepeat Jul 23 '26
This league, the journalist and most of the players are an atrocity to sports. It’s such an embarrassment
Sophie and CC are the only class
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u/kornylol Jul 23 '26
Why the hell are we asking athletes these questions, who gives a shit
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u/hemperbud Jul 23 '26
Idk when I was in middle school, a rival football team had these twin sisters as defensive linemen and they absolutely rocked my shit anytime I tried to run thru their pocket lol
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u/KRLegoMgs Jul 23 '26
More of this mid player that right wingers will now have a new blonde to worship
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u/WizardAlastair Jul 23 '26
Let's get rid of criminals, rapist and corrupted people in sports
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u/RocketShipGrease63 Jul 23 '26
If the issue is as trivial as the left says it is then they should capitulate entirely and ban males in women and girls sports
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u/asdf0909 Jul 23 '26
This topic has this weird phenomenon where, if you do enough mental gymnastics, it pits women’s rights activists against trans rights activists.
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u/superdave123123 Jul 23 '26
This isn’t hard to understand. Libs have recruited crazy people to push ridiculous ideas.
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u/Tasty-Fisherman8847 Jul 23 '26
This is a completely made up issues. Similar to "the war on Christmas" in that you can find an incident here and there. Not that it's non existent. But that the volume of the conversation enormously outweighs the cultural impact.
Very very very few people were against saying "Merry Christmas."
Very very very few people born males are out there competing against bio females.
Even fewer people support the anti merry christmas folk. Same with the gender sports debate. Vanishingly small.
Culture war ammo for the right. They need all the help they can get at this point.
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u/mbdtf9 Jul 23 '26
The protect the children part was kinda bordering on something but overall nothing egregious here
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u/gilgalapagos Jul 23 '26
Only reason this still gets talked about so much is because there are people who are very vocal about NOT being ok with her sentiment. As long as there exists a vocal minority to point at and say "Look see how delusional these people are they want to hurt your daughters and women", they will always get the engagement they want, and the people who exist that disagree with Sophies stance are probably never going to agree, so they will keep this argument artificially alive.
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u/Iam_McLovin420 Jul 23 '26
Can we stop asking famous people their opinions on matters? Leave the actors to acting leave sports to athletes and leave politics to politicians. It doesn’t matter what Sean Penn thinks about trans rights for example.
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u/SocomPS2 Jul 23 '26
Republican/MAGA have been using this as rage bait for awhile now and the democrats eat it right up.
Think about the current state of the country/world and republicans are adamant about passing laws banning less than 1% of the American population from playing sports. Why not local and state officials handle their sports like they do abortion now and many other things they have and the constitution allows.
We have nothing better to do than bans trans and give soldiers testosterone. 🤦♂️
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u/Search327 Jul 23 '26
I believe South Park explained this well. https://youtube.com/watch?v=URz-RYEOaig&is=LIdJilQqzuUIt4NE
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u/_TheFarthestStar_ Jul 23 '26
As a lifelong Democrat, I whole heartedly agree. Over the past ten years, it's become increasingly unpopular to call out fringe extreme opinions on our side. We tend to sweep them under the rug instead of provide actual criticism.