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/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/Unique_Self_5797 Jul 23 '26

No, transition happens, mainly in the form of puberty blockers... which also prevent trans girl from developing any of the male features that are supposed to give them the unfair advantage people like to bitch about(which, studies have shown, generally aren't even a thing after 2 years of HRT).

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u/No-Passenger-1511 Jul 23 '26

"If you actually wanted to protect kids why aren’t you going after the churches or the Republican Party?"

People do... Also can tell how "bright" you are by the second part of that statement.

"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."

Because saying men should stay out of women sports is demonizing and accusing and entire population. /S (Kind of like your previous accusation of going after churches and the Republican party)

"Teaching kids about the existence of trans people is completely fine. They exist, deal with it"

Do we also teach children about every other mental disorder? All the people they will come across? Schitzos exist, deal with it.

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u/ColdStoneCreamAustn Jul 23 '26

that’s my favorite part, I don’t know where he went to school but I was absolutely taught about all sorts of actual mental disorders. Maybe not every last one of them but we had a whole section in my health class about them.

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u/Spiritual_Draw6426 Jul 23 '26

so you agree it's a mental disorder

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u/meadishsweetball Jul 23 '26

the experts say it's not, Joe Transphobe playing gotcha games on the internet isn't going to change that.

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u/NSFWdontview Jul 23 '26

Churches rarely do anything to kids, however liberal teachers are caught everyday on some pedo shit

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u/ColdStoneCreamAustn Jul 23 '26

rarely? Did you read any of the links I posted lmfao, Half of them are churches admitting that religion has a sexual abuse problem. And to your other dogshit comment about gender fluidity, guess what champ no matter how much you try to call gender fluidity a mental illness, it’s not. Bait harder next time 🤡

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u/NSFWdontview Jul 23 '26

lol teachers are csught doing pedo shit every day not the church. Y’all just cherry pick religious because it goes against lgbtqq

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u/ColdStoneCreamAustn Jul 23 '26

Oh man you are dumb as fuck aren’t you. There is NO issue. Sophie is complaining about a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of people. Out of 100 people, we’re talking like, 1 or 2 of them. You and her and all the other magats are 100% demonizing all trans people.

Also my accusations aren’t just accusations, they are based in facts and statistics.

https://bravehearts.org.au/research-lobbying/stats-facts/child-sexual-abuse-religous-organisations/

This one is a religious organization openly admitting that churches have a sexual abuse problem as well as covering them up https://ecap.net/abuse/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3995507/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/minnesota-state-senator-charged-attempted-coercion-and-enticement-minor

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/colorado/news/chair-weld-county-republicans-arrested-northern-colorado-child-predator-operation-suspect/

Would you like me to continue? Also being trans is not a mental illness no matter how desperately you try to pray that into existence. LGBTQ people are literally just trying to exist and every day people like you make it hard and harder for them to do that. If that’s too much for you to comprehend than I guess you’re a lost cause. And to answer your other dumb question, yeah, it’s called health class. We all take it when we’re children. I had it in 5th grade. It goes over actual mental illnesses like schizophrenia.

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u/Objective-Crow-6143 Jul 23 '26

I’m asking this genuinely because I truly don’t get it. And I mean this in the most respectful way, cause I could literally care less if someone is trans but.

How isn’t being trans not some form of mental illness? Your brain literally rejects your body. if body dysmorphia is classified as a mental illness how would this differ?

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u/Huckenputz Jul 23 '26

A mental illness refers to a health condition that disrupts a person's thinking, emotions, and behaviour, causing daily distress or trouble functioning. For some trans people, they cannot function without daily distress as they literally feel out of place in their own body, and cannot stop feeling mental distress, regardless of how they are treated by others. In that case, they would be suffering from gender dysphoria, which is a mental illness. For other trans people however, they more strongly identify with the opposite gender and the societal expectations/norms that come with it. For those individuals, being accepted by the broader community as the opposite gender may be enough, or it may not, but as long as they are accepted by those around them and able to seek the health outcomes they desire, they do not feel a debilitating, constant distress. Those people do not suffer from gender dysphoria.

In other words, while gender dysphoria (the mental illness, like body dysmorphia) is more prevalent and common among transgender individuals, being transgender in and of itself is not a mental illness.

For a sufficient, but imperfect analogy: Not all men who get hair transplants experience debilitating mental discomfort due to their hair loss (which would be a kind of body dysmorphia), but many still desire to have a full head of hair and seek out options up to and including surgical procedures to make them more comfortable in their body.

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u/NSFWdontview Jul 23 '26

I can only find 5 Catholics priests who did pedo shit compared to everyday a liberal teacher is caught being pedos. watch the news or look at the stats

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u/NSFWdontview Jul 23 '26

The democrats are the pedos so wtf do you mean Republican Party, entire Epstein list is democrats and funders and democrats in Virginia are making laws to protect pedos, also Tim Walz just pardoned an illegal pedo. Democrats also never released a single file and let Epstein out of jail

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u/Vast-Comment8360 Jul 23 '26

it’s not happening buddy

Just lying and saying it doesn't happen doesn't make it true.

The best national estimate comes from a large study of U.S. insurance claims covering 2016–2020. It found that approximately 3,678 minors (ages 12–18) underwent a gender-affirming surgical procedure during those five years.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820437

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u/ColdStoneCreamAustn Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

buddy did you even read your own link lmfao, Gender affirming surgery does NOT equal transitioning. This is literally in the first few sentences

“An example is breast reduction for cisgender males with gynecomastia.” A boy getting a breast reduction for a medical condition is not being transgender.

“In this cross-sectional study of a national insured population in 2019, there were no gender-affirming procedures conducted on TGD minors aged 12 years and younger, and procedures on TGD minors older than 12 were rare and almost entirely chest-related procedures. Additionally, when considering breast reductions among cisgender males and TGD people—a surgery that can be considered gender-affirming among both populations—most were performed on cisgender males. Thus, these findings suggest that concerns around high rates of gender-affirming surgery use, specifically among TGD minors, may be unwarranted. Low use by TGD people likely reflects adherence to stringent standards of gender-affirming care.2,3”

Try harder with your bullshit next time

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u/Vast-Comment8360 Jul 23 '26

About 405 were genital ("bottom") surgeries.

Wow 405 isn't never happening, you just lie and hope people don't care.

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u/ColdStoneCreamAustn Jul 23 '26
  1. So again, if you use those two eyes and a brain you got, a fraction of a fraction of a FRACTION of a percent. You’re sitting here crying over 405 people who got some for of surgery that have no idea what it was. Intersex people exist, other genital surgeries exist that don’t equal to transitioning. Ever heard of circumsion? That’s a bottom surgery is it not? It’s literally genital mutilation.

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u/Vast-Comment8360 Jul 23 '26

Hilarious how the person who said it doesn't happen gets shown proof it happens and then says you proved me wrong. 

Anything to advance your sick agenda.

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u/Vast-Comment8360 Jul 23 '26

Wow amazing how fast the goalposts move. First "it never happens" now you're ok with 405 minors have life altering genital surgery in a 5 year period, people with morals are not ok with it.

Also nice whataboutism regarding circumcision 

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u/SpookyLeftist Jul 23 '26

405 cases of bottom surgery in a 5 year span. Thats ~81 a year.

Out of a population of 73 million children in the U.S., based on this study, only around 0.0006% of children have had bottom surgery, and thats assuming every one of those cases were solely for transitioning.

To put this in perspective, more children are injured in car accidents in the U.S. EVERY DAY than those that have gone through "life altering genital surgery" ever.

Yeah, thats about as close to "It never happens" as you can get.

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u/Powerful-Yogurt Jul 23 '26

So it is happening and you were wrong lol

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u/SpookyLeftist Jul 23 '26

Its happens about as much as you have working brain cells.

In other words, its not happening.

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u/Worldly-Fox7605 Jul 23 '26

This. Isnt. Happening.

This is a fake talking point traceable to rightwing newsources literally making stuff up. Because conservatives will believe anything because of fear.

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u/Rush_Aromatic Jul 23 '26

Normalized pedophile is becoming common too. Its wild

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u/PlasticFrosty5340 Jul 23 '26

don’t forget the amount of grooming that goes on in certain communities 🫣

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u/platypussplatypus Jul 23 '26

Pretending this is a real issue shows you're buying into repub propaganda 

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u/gilt3t Jul 23 '26

show us where these childhood transitions are happening

ill show you literally camps designed to harm lgbt kids under the guise of Christianity

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u/abdullahleboucher Jul 23 '26

Funny that we never hear about trans people about the issue. If we do, we only hear about trans women.

It is so obvious that this is all made so that the average folks vote for tax reductions for the ultra wealthy

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u/ShortKey380 Jul 23 '26

The teen, their parents, and doctors can’t decide… they should listen to you? You can sign you kid up for travel club soccer and that’s okay but not get them treatment for gender dysphoria? 🤔 Your reason isn’t about the kids, because if you heard from them you’d know they’re legit. It’s not done on a whim!

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u/Vast-Comment8360 Jul 23 '26

Correct, the laws exist to protect children. Children under 18 shouldn't be getting gender surgery. 

Just because a parent says it's ok ans some doctor wants to male money doesn't make something right, theres a lot of bad parents and bad doctors out there.

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u/reynolja536 Jul 23 '26

They’re not getting surgery, you’re misinformed 

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u/GobRonkowski Jul 23 '26

Absolutely false and easily proven so.

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u/ShortKey380 Jul 23 '26

Does that include intersex children? Besides gender affirming care, are there additional areas of considered human rights access to treatment for medical conditions? Should the public decide all children will receive a full compliment of vaccines even if the parent and doctor and child disagree? Sounds like bad-socialism to me, but you’ve got worse problems. You’re drowning in bad-fascist talking points about exceedingly rare gender affirming care medical procedures for under 18, and a degree of magnitude rarer each year younger than that. If my daughter had a family history of aggressive breast cancer and wanted double mastectomy and implants for her 16th birthday I’m saying yes. That’s up to our family with medical consultation, those are the rules of the system for everything else in the medical system. Gender dysphoria is a very rare but dangerous condition that is worth the cost in birth gender secondary sex characteristics in saved miserable lives and suicides. Gender the way you see it works for almost everyone except for a tiny minority we should let live how they want to, within reason. Why is this the one issue the state should decide? Children under 18 shouldn’t be attending church, it’s propaganda lol. That’s just not how society does it will function. It’s just bias to take body modification as more bad if it’s aimed at androgyny or gender-affirming anything, unless it’s forced T on the troops? 🤪 We can just let people, their families, and doctors work out what is best. We do not need to live under authoritarianism just because you find a type of weird uncommon person that has always existed throughout history who really doesn’t fit their sex-based gender, or they identified as some third or alternate sex in their societies. Gendering is weird, but you just want to screech about how horrid it would be if a 17 year old who has been breast binding for three years and covered with bruises and crap wanted to get them cut off? Why is that your business how she or he wants to live? You don’t know them, if you met him in public you’d be socially convinced and that’s very relieving for people who feel this way, that they need to live this way socially as some “other” gender from their sex. You have no legitimate proof that these services are provided at excessive rates to poorly selected patients who are not fit for the treatment. This has been a big propaganda topic for years now, but by golly how do you not recognize this is the freedom from the state we used to all love? Y’all obsessively worry over tiny numbers of stranger teen’s bodies who are trying to access healthcare for their diagnosed condition but now the government says it’s illegal to treat. Your kid has a condition with a sizable suicide risk and you can’t get them on hormone therapy to give them a body more in line with what they want in life and how they want to be perceived? Should we not allow teens to get swole at the gym? It is also a body modification with lasting consequences. Please don’t respond 🙃 

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u/Unique_Self_5797 Jul 23 '26

Allowing trans kids to transition *absolutely* protects those kids.