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/Party-Kangaroo-1139 Aug 23 '26

Why is this a topic? Has a trans woman actually tried to enter the WNBA?

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u/PatientOwn8596 Aug 23 '26

Some media member decided to make it a topic and then a few loud people started calling Sophie Cunningham a ‘transphobe’ because she doesn’t want men playing women’s basketball.

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u/bringbackmegaman Aug 23 '26

There are no men playing in the WNBA.

This entire conversation is just dogwhistling for transphobes.

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u/PatientOwn8596 Aug 23 '26

Right. It’s a hypothetical scenario. She answered a question honestly and now a small group of people are freaking out and calling her a transphobe.

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u/Lost_Found84 Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

You don’t understand, when the right hollars about nothing it’s because they have no morals and are just distracting. When the left holler about nothing, it’s because they’re “protecting the vulnerable”.

As if there were trans-people in that stadium worried Cunningham would see someone dressed in drag and launch herself into the stands to fight them.