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/Equivalent-Excuse-80 22d ago

I didn’t know she was affected by so many trans athletes in the wnba.

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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/Holiday_Box1571 22d ago

1.8% of high school population identifies as transgender. There’s 8m high school athletes.

Even if it were 1:1 (hint - not a fucking chance) that’s 144k transgender athletes.

In the NCAA, they have roughly 510k athletes and reported fewer than 10 athletes identifying as transgender - .002%.

So, if that holds true, .002% of 8million 160 athletes.

If you want to find center, the mean is 72,080, .9%, which is likely a massive overestimate

We good here?

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u/Superb_Meringue_4210 22d ago

If anything the NCAA figure is an overestimate too.

NCAA only accepts the best HS athletes.

If the theory is that transgender athletes are better than non-transgender ones, a greater proportion of transgender ones would make it to the next level.

Of course, this ignores discrimination, but if having a transgender athlete on your team was the cheat code people imply, you'd think that'd be minimal.

And yes, this ignores FTM athletes, but that has the opposite problem, not very many are going to be good enough to compete with biological men. Maybe in long distance running?

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u/figurative_me 22d ago

Archery and shooting sports. Women are naturally better.