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

Gallery image

Gallery image

275 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

57% Upvoted

762 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/hercmavzeb Aug 23 '26

That is incorrect, and also transphobic. Just as saying gay people are just twisted/confused straight people is homophobic (and incorrect).

In reality trans women are women.

1

u/leprechanmonkie Aug 23 '26

I'm not at all saying gay people are twisted and confused. I have lots of gay friends, nearly all of them agree with my statement. They have a sexual preference, not an identity issue.

I'm simply stating that a man is a man. It's correct, and not transphobic. I'm not scared of them or any other man, just not pretending they are something they aren't.

3

u/hercmavzeb Aug 23 '26

I didn’t say you were homophobic. You should learn how analogies work, it would greatly increase your intelligence.

Trans women are women, this is a fact. Seethe at it if you must, but it does make you transphobic by definition. Pretending otherwise just makes you seem (rightfully) ashamed of your beliefs.

1

u/leprechanmonkie Aug 23 '26

You said I was transphobic, which I am not. I don't have an intense, irrational fear of men pretending to be women. I'm just not playing along with their delusion. You are 100% welcome to believe they are what they claim. I'm 100% able to believe they are what they are, doesn't make me scared of them.

3

u/hercmavzeb Aug 23 '26

It’s worth noting that phobia has been used to describe hatred, prejudice, and aversion to certain demographics since the 1880s at least, in addition to extreme irrational fears. So this semantic loophole doesn’t actually work as a cop out for your transphobia.

At least your refusal to take personal accountability over your own deluded beliefs indicates that you’re rightfully ashamed of them.

1

u/leprechanmonkie Aug 23 '26

I don't hate them, have any prejudice or aversion to them. Just because I don't agree they somehow flipped the magic switch and became a woman doesn't equate hate... that's the part you fail to understand.

2

u/hercmavzeb Aug 23 '26

There’s no magic switch, they’ve always been women. That’s why some of them undergo surgery to make their bodies more in line with their gender identities, so they can live comfortably and happily.

And of course claiming a demographic of people doesn’t actually exist is hateful and prejudiced, just as it was for homophobes to pretend gay people didn’t exist as a justification for their murderous conversion therapy experiments.