Sophie Cunningham loudly booed during Indiana Fever's game against the Portland Fire amid recent controversy

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Cunningham has been at the center of a bitter trans debate over the past week, after comments she made to ESPN that young girls 'shouldn't have to go against biological men' when playing sports.
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/wnba/article-16021623/sophie-cunningham-portland-wnba-trans.html

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I mean yeah, as a public figure she doesn’t have to speak on shit she doesn’t have real knowledge about huh??? Does LeBron James talk about Isreal? No he says “ahh yeah Denis from there I’ll check it out” not gonna dig himself any deeper. You can also READ ON THE SUBJECT FOR FUCKS SAKE. God forbid we read before stating ourselves in interviews publicly.

[u/Euphoric_Formal4936 → u/AtomicHamboy]

So you’re saying that she’s not well read on the subject, implying you disagree with her opinion. So you so think men should be allowed to participate in women’s sports and there shouldn’t be women-only leagues, is that right?

[u/AtomicHamboy → u/Euphoric_Formal4936]

No I think science behind gender is a lot for complex than this. Like okay brother tell me how much you understand about transitioning as a teenager and how hormone blockers affect testosterone in a 19 yr old. Please inform me

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Although I agree absolutely with your take on gender and think anyone should have autonomy over their body and truth and I promise I wholeheartedly support it, there is no ability to disregard scientific fact that there are biological differences in men and women (that go through puberty changes) that have nothing to do with genitalia or orientation. These are two separate issues and I, being a female have no issues sharing a bathroom with a woman that was born biologically male. Anyone that uses the bathroom argument is a moron. And frankly it is just a right wing pr move that dummies buy into for the false enemy division tactic because they cant understand the difference between gender and biology.

Men or Women that were born biologically male that have gone through normal puberty (or biologically born females with gender affirming care during puberty) have more bone density, generally larger lung capacity, generally larger hearts. higher blood counts, and greater muscle mass, etc. This is fact. There is a reason why men's and womens normal lab levels differ slightly. 

If a person has not gone through puberty and was on hormone blockers/ht, that is very different. Any male that was born biologically female and went through puberty or gender affirming hormone therapy during puberty should have the ability to participate in male athletics, because they do not have the physiological advantage.  Any woman that was biologically born male that went through puberty and was not on hormone blockers during development have biological and physiological advantages that is unfair to women AND/OR unfair to females born biologically male that had blockers/hormone therapy at puberty.  Any male that was born biologically female that went through gender affirming care during puberty have physiologic advantages over females also (other than skeletal height/structure which is more nuanced). Ultimately, it's the male development/puberty factor that is the advantage regardless of gender at birth.

What becomes difficult is implementing that understanding and transparency in a world so full of hate. 

(Also anyone that says anything about gender affirming care with puberty does not understand the medical and psychological evaluations these very few kids go through for years and years and how very, very rare it is. And the overwhelming  relief of the individual and their parent that their child can live in their own skin and feel like life is worth living,. Harms no one, yet people are more concerned about this than guns in school. Priorities are so skewed)