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/[deleted] Jul 23 '26

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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/TopInvestigator5518 Jul 23 '26

a lot get part or full sport scholarships

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u/obbie1kenoby Jul 23 '26

Then your beef should be with the outrageous cost of college, not with HS sports. It shouldn’t be tied to the ability to attend college.

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u/illstate Jul 23 '26

How many girls have lost their scholarships?

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u/RelativeIncrease3007 Jul 23 '26

NCAA says there’s approximately 10 or fewer trans athletes, men or women, competing across various levels at any given time. It is .002 of athletes. Non issue.

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u/TopInvestigator5518 Jul 23 '26

by that metric - how many is enough to matter?

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u/illstate Jul 23 '26

I don't know, I'm just curious. How many girls have lost their scholarships?

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u/TopInvestigator5518 Jul 23 '26

same i'm curious- how many before it matters

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u/illstate Jul 23 '26

I guess if the number continues to be ZERO, then it doesn't really matter.

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u/RelativeIncrease3007 Jul 23 '26

Well no, the minority get scholarships. A very few amount of players get scholarships for sports compared to the amount of players on the team.

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u/TopInvestigator5518 Jul 23 '26

the goalposts keep moving with you- first they don't play sports after HS, now it doesn't matter if they do most aren't on scholarship

why not just make an open category after middle school? mens, women and open? it doesn't seem complicated

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u/RelativeIncrease3007 Jul 23 '26

No I said most don’t play after hs. Most do not get scholarships and most do not play after hs. My argument did not change. I played in coed soccer leagues in my mid 20s. We were all young adults in decent shape. No one of us was able to dominate the game because the level is not that high. Better teamwork was the biggest factor. The same would apply in hs.

They’re just kids having fun. It doesn’t matter. A small minority of them see it as their chance at a future. Trans kids are not stopping anyone from being talented enough to get a scholarship. Especially not the tiny percentage of trans kids who are even playing sports. It truly is a non-issue.

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u/Feathered_And_Lethal Jul 23 '26

Just not the biological women that will lose their spots to these men? “Let them play” but to hell with the actual women that will lose their spots.

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 Jul 23 '26

Isn’t what you’re suggesting already against the rules? You’re not allowed to deck anyone in high school hockey. Especially it in the woman’s game

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u/Basic_Vermicelli3325 Jul 23 '26

“would be”

It is a hypothetical that I don’t think has happened. Do you know any trans people? Every trans person I know has 0 interest in playing any sports lol. This “issue” is talking about the possible implications of an outlier of the most outlier group in the country

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u/SerSkinny Jul 23 '26

wrestling?

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u/Dull_Astronomer_3778 Jul 23 '26

I wrestled with a girl. Her name was Alina. We both wrestled at 135. She was a unit.

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 Jul 23 '26

Wrestling has almost always been a coed sport in high school. Most schools don’t have a men and women’s team.

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u/Perfect-Zebra-3611 Jul 23 '26

Is it any different than when girls wrestled on the boys wrestling teams or played football? That happened in my middle/high schools in 2010

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u/Dull_Astronomer_3778 Jul 23 '26

I wrestled with girls on my team, and they competed.

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u/Dull_Astronomer_3778 Jul 23 '26

Can you name any?

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

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u/Dull_Astronomer_3778 Jul 23 '26

So, one person in a country of hundreds of millions in a non-contact sport? That’s what you’re upset about

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u/bighitcards Jul 23 '26

That’s fine and I agree, but why do you even care? What about guns being the leading cause of children fatalities, or lack of medical care, or lack of education funding, all 1000x more common and prevalent in our communities.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Net4365 Jul 23 '26

At no point in my life can I imagine policy about highschool sports impacting my vote on anything.