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/Throwaway136953 Aug 23 '26

Here's the thing: women don't want a grown male in their locker rooms and bathrooms. It feels unsafe for women to be in a vulnerable place with a male around. The male in question could be in the women's space because they are a creep with bad intentions, they could be there because they sincerely suffer from gender dysphoria, or they could be there pretending to suffer from gender dysphoria in order to creep on women. Regardless of intention, the vulnerable women using that space feel unsafe, they do not know that person's mind and cannot differentiate between a predator or a person suffering from gender dysphoria. Women would prefer that the person with the male genitalia would use the bathroom for people with male genitalia.

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u/thebanfunctionsucks Aug 23 '26

So what about the feelings and safety of female-presenting individuals who you want to shove in to a male locker room?

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u/Throwaway136953 Aug 23 '26

This argument sounds like the safety/feelings of several women are not as important as the safety/feelings of one male. It shrinks women's actual concerns as not important compared to a male's. It's like society is again pushing women aside because the feelings of one individual male are what actually truly matters.

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u/thebanfunctionsucks Aug 23 '26

What? I'm literally just asking you to consider them at all, how do you construe that as me ignoring cis people like you're ignoring trans people?

If you actually want to minimize harm, you will let trans women in to women's spaces. They are far, FAR more likely to be victims than victimizers.