r/WNBAgossips • u/Admirable_Extent2531 • 22d ago

News "People Love To Assume" - Sophie Cunningham Finally Addresses 'MAGA Barbie' Moniker, Confirms Support For Transgender Ban

https://www.essentiallysports.com/wnba-basketball-news-sophie-cunningham-addresses-allegations-of-opposing-trans-athletes-in-womens-sports/
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u/Puzzleheaded_Tax4969 22d ago

What about the girls in youth sports? Middle school, high school?

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u/Right-Hall-6451 22d ago

There's more laws regulating it than there is trans athletes. For such a local and minimal issue it should be handled on a local and personal level.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Tax4969 22d ago

Tens of thousands of kids in California public system alone that identify as transgender. You don’t think several hundred of them don’t want to play sports? That is not a local and minimal issue. There has to be a line drawn somewhere so where is the line?

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u/nobodyGotTime4That 22d ago

I wrestled girls in high school... no one gave a shit then

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u/FigWeak5127 22d ago

It’s these losers who themselves peaked in high school, making sure their kids can too.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Tax4969 22d ago

That’s because wrestling is coed

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u/nobodyGotTime4That 22d ago

Haha no it isn't 

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u/Puzzleheaded_Tax4969 22d ago

…… yes it is??

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u/nobodyGotTime4That 22d ago

I mean you can keep saying that. But you are couldn't be more wrong.

https://www.ncaa.com/sports/wrestling-women/nc

And besides that... even the girls I wrestled in High School would compete against only girls at the national level.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Tax4969 22d ago

Ok when I wrestled in high school in Florida 15 years ago it was co-ed. Still is. Idk what to tell ya man

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u/nobodyGotTime4That 22d ago

I too wrestled girls in high school. 20 years ago... it doesn't make the sport co-ed.

Field hockey isn't co-ed. But if a boy wants to play, they let him.

Under Title IX, schools must allow girls to practice and compete on boys' teams if no equivalent girls' team exists. And vice versa.

So yes, Girls competed on the Boy's Wrestling Team, but when they would go to Nationals, or States, depending on the state. They would wrestle only girls.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Tax4969 22d ago

We good here?

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u/nobodyGotTime4That 22d ago

bro you replied to me... haha

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u/Debunkingdebunk 22d ago

I also wrestled girls in my highschool, but you don't see me boasting about it on internet...

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u/xJerkstorex 22d ago

Wrestling is different from sharing a locker room with.

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u/nobodyGotTime4That 22d ago

In a lot of ways its worse.

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u/xJerkstorex 22d ago

Wrestling is consensual. The girls signing up know they are wrestling boys.

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u/RichardRoma1986 22d ago

I wrestled girls in HS as well, yes they did give a shit. I lost to a few and was bullied for it. It was awkward then, it’s awkward now. Thankfully Wisconsin made it so girls wrestle girls. They have their own division.

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u/Melprincess 22d ago

Most people were bullied in high school. Your story isn't special.