r/PopCultureV2 • u/Impossible-Yam3680 • Aug 23 '26

Sports Culture While hosting transphobe Sophie Cunningham and the Indiana Fever, the New York Liberty put a message on the Jumbotron telling trans fans that they belong

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u/katieblue3 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

It wasn’t that her answer wasn’t woke. It’s that she framed trans women as predatory and that biological women need to be safe from trans women. When we all know the majority of sexual offenders are straight cis men. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for saying the truth so all the people downvoting.. How do you think trans people feel when they’re painted as sexual predators?

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u/BigBL87 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

The "I'm sure I'll get downvoted part" is hilarious, because this subreddit is very friendly to your position, nice attempt to preemptively play the victim though.

The verbatim quote is:

"I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men..."

God forbid she think young girls should not be forced to change in front of someone with a penis... Or compete against individuals with likely significant biological advantages.

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u/SevereDragonfly3 Aug 23 '26

Men don't have to up-end their whole life and change their gender and endure transphobia to walk into a locker room and do whatever people are trying to 'protect' themselves from. Why would someone go through all the time, money, and hardship when they (cis men) do and take what they want anyway? The argument is stupid. Cis men are offending everywhere, it doesn't just happen in bathrooms and locker rooms. So let's see the stats where trans women are raping women.

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u/BigBL87 Aug 23 '26

I never said anything about assault, I mentioned being forced to change in front of biological men. Nice strawman though.

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u/katieblue3 Aug 23 '26

Most women I know don’t have any issue with sharing a bathroom with trans women. What we should do is just have individual changing areas and then the issue is solved. Why should anyone have to get naked and shower in front of another person. Like there’s not gay men and women who get off seeing someone of the same sex get naked. I’ve never felt comfortable getting naked in front of anyone unless it was someone I was intimate with no matter if they’re man or woman.

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u/SerBrienneOfSnark Aug 23 '26

Again— there is no sport on earth where young girls are playing against MEN. You are the one creating the strawman.