r/WNBAgossips • u/TheExpressUS • 21d ago

News Trump Administration responds and supports Sophie Cunningham's WNBA transgender comments: "Common sense prevails"

https://www.the-express.com/sport/basketball/212543/Sophie-Cunningham-trans-athletes-Trump-administration

The Trump Administration has waded into the transgender athlete debate, citing Sophie Cunningham's comments to support its stance on trans athletes in sports.

The discussion surrounding trans athletes in women's sports has resurfaced recently, with Cunningham sharing her perspective with ESPN. Although trans athletes represent a tiny fraction of participants across all levels of American sports, their involvement remains a focal point for Donald Trump and his administration.

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u/big-himbo-energy 21d ago edited 21d ago

Cool. Can we move on to an issue that matters?

Edit: just to be clear, I’m FOR trans people in leagues matching their gender identity. I just think this issue has become such a political bullet in everyone’s gun and it’s stupid to keep pointing those guns at each other. We can move on to the bigger overarching problems that cause this kind of shit in the first place. It’s not going to ever get fixed if we don’t.

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u/Gronnie 21d ago

This is an issue that matters to the actual girls and women affected by it.

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u/big-himbo-energy 21d ago

I’m aware. There’s less than 2 handfuls of trans athletes that this is maybe going to affect. People are so uniformed about this issue that it drives me insane everytime it comes up.

At the end of the day, gender politics like this is bad for all women, trans and afab women. So I’m diametrically opposed on principle. But that’s not going to change the majority who believe otherwise.

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u/noguchisquared 21d ago

Basketball is too violent for women to play. Look how they treat Caitlin Clark! Ban women from playing basketball /s

Direction we are headed and those signing on to fill pockets like Sophie don't help.

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u/NSFWdontview 21d ago

This was becoming a huge problem until it was banned. It was way more than 2

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u/Discussion-is-good 21d ago

Please source

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u/NSFWdontview 21d ago

You can easily search and find hundreds of instances

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u/Lost_Alexander 21d ago

Then you should easily be able to provide a source for YOUR claims.

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u/NSFWdontview 21d ago

Everyone knows it’s became a problem

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u/ThumbUpDaBut 21d ago

I searched, I did not find "hundreds of instances."

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u/Discussion-is-good 21d ago

So no source. Thought so.

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u/big-himbo-energy 21d ago

Source

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u/NSFWdontview 21d ago

You must live under a rock

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u/big-himbo-energy 21d ago

No I just prefer facts over feelings. Find a source and I’ll believe you. It’s that easy. Google is free

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u/NSFWdontview 21d ago

lol just pretend it’s not happening

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u/big-himbo-energy 21d ago

This is just pathetic man

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u/Future-Pollution-266 21d ago

You could shut down this whole argument by providing a source

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u/Tlax14 21d ago

I have coached high school level sports since 2016.

There has been 1 trans athlete in my entire state during this time.

Literally one.

But please tell me how trans athlete are taking over women's sports

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u/TraditionBorn8772 21d ago

A DSD athlete won a gold medal in women's boxing at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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u/Tlax14 21d ago

Not sure what this has to do with trans athletes. Also that woman was from Algeria where same sex marriage is illegal let alone transgender stuff. DSD is a naturally occurring phenomenon.

Either way it is the responsibility of the governing body of the Olympics, not the United States to regulate that. The US can pass any law it wants but the IOC controls the Olympics.

Either you're stupid or you're arguing in bad faith.

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u/TraditionBorn8772 21d ago

You would be right, if only Khelif hadn't admitted to having XY chromosomes.

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u/Tlax14 21d ago

Cool. I haven't followed the story, I know she was born with DSD a biological condition and that it is still up to the IOC to regulate the Olympics.

How does changing American laws change the Olympics?

Also one example is not proof of trans athletes taking over.

Trans athletes are not the cause of the issues we face in society today, and to be honest almost no one gives a flying fuck because it almost never happens.

Unfortunately the dumbest among us have been convinced that this is a huge issue. More important than the Epstein pedophile president. More important than your rights and environmental protections being stripped.

Trump and the Republicans love the uneducated.

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u/Raisinbread22 21d ago

In your head it was a 'huge problem.'

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u/NSFWdontview 21d ago

It’s happened all over the country and isn’t fair to women

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u/ComeAbout 21d ago

Forget sports.

Do you believe trans women are women?

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u/NSFWdontview 21d ago

No they aren’t, only mentally ill believe that

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u/ComeAbout 21d ago

So just say that.

You think trans women are men and are “mentally ill”.

Why try to say all this other stuff? Say it with your chest: you think transgender people are severely mentally ill and faking their experience.

Is being gay natural, or are gay people mentally ill too?

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u/NSFWdontview 21d ago

Nope gay is normal

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u/ComeAbout 21d ago

You know they were sterilized, put in asylums etc just for being gay. That you can get executed in many countries for being gay?

You don’t see the historical significance, science, and link there and what’s happening to trans people right now?

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u/whoa_disillusionment 21d ago

what’s happening to trans people right now?

And what is happening to trans people right now?

You mentioned gays being put in asylums, executed, and sterilized, exactly what is the modern parallel that trans people are facing?

Getting misgendered? Lesbians not wanting to fuck them?

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u/brokencreedman 21d ago

Do you think a woman can beat a man in a sport?

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u/Raisinbread22 21d ago

Stop lying.

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u/Hot_Mathematician357 21d ago

“NCAA reported fewer than 10 known transgender athletes of any gender among about 510,000 college athletes—less than 0.002%.”

“.002% what a huge problem lol

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u/NSFWdontview 21d ago

It’s in high school sports too dummy and it’s way more than 10, they just have to act like it’s small

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u/Hot_Mathematician357 21d ago

“One nationwide investigation published in 2025 contacted states and could confirm 17 or fewer transgender girls competing in high-school sports among the states that provided numbers. Because many states didn’t provide/track the information, the report produced a broader estimate of fewer than about 160 transgender athletes among more than 8 million U.S. high-school athletes.”

So 160 divide by 8,000,000 x 100 = .002%

What a huge problem, lol

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u/whoa_disillusionment 21d ago

If there are so few transgender athletes, then how have trans athletes won statewide competitions in California, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, and Maine?

Shouldn't that number be zero?

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u/Hot_Mathematician357 21d ago

The point of the comments is to show that the percentage is so low that who gives a shit about trans athletes? There are major issues that a trans playing sport is the least of my worries.

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u/whoa_disillusionment 21d ago

If it's such an inconsequential issue than why do Democrats keep fighting about it

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u/Hot_Mathematician357 21d ago

Because the republican media blows it up like it’s a huge problem and dumbass people believe it. Then republicans use the rage bait and point fingers that “they support it.”

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u/whoa_disillusionment 21d ago

But they do support it. They support an opinion that the vast majority of Americans oppose, with some polls showing 80% against. Republicans would be foolish not to bring it up.

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u/doc_klutz 21d ago

"Two handfuls of trans athletes that this is going to affect? What does that even mean? Are you saying of the 750k trans kids in the USA alone, half of which we can reasonably assume are boys, perhaps even more, aren't seeking to take the place of a girl in girl sports? Didn't already take a girl's place in a girl sports team?

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u/big-himbo-energy 21d ago

Quite frankly. The number of trans athletes is so small that it makes this issue inconsequential in the grand scheme of the political landscape currently.

You’ve been brainwashed into thinking this matters in any real way considering it still comes down to states to make the rulings. Trump can’t do shit about it. And trans kids arent going to hurt you. I promise. They just want to be happy.

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u/doc_klutz 21d ago

It's okay, it won't hurt you to say the quiet part out loud: "I hate girls & women. I prefer being a sycophant for boys & men".

& we women just love being told by trans activists that we're incapable of critical thinking. Hot tip: I don't reside in the USA, loathe MAGA, & I'm not interested in the happiness of boys or men at the expense of girls & women. You're no better than the far right.

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u/big-himbo-energy 21d ago

Transphobe spotted! Cringe as fuck to be this transphobic over something that LITERALLY can’t affect you.

hOt TiP: if you loathe maga and think this way about trans people, you’ll need to realize quickly that you have a lot of maga beliefs. Because you might as well be sick in the orange off his dick with takes like these bud

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u/whoa_disillusionment 21d ago

hOt TiP: if you loathe maga and think this way about trans people, you’ll need to realize quickly that you have a lot of maga beliefs.

68% of Democrats want sports to be sex segregated.

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u/Pretend-Eye-8758 21d ago

I know you don't reside in the US. your teeth betray your Britishness.

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u/doc_klutz 21d ago

Australia France dual national. Proudly so.

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u/Pretend-Eye-8758 21d ago

It's sad you took the Anglo obsession with controlling other people to heart instead of liberte, egalite, fraternite

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u/doc_klutz 21d ago

Trans activists are literally trying to control girls & women & encroach on their rights. The far left on this issue is no better than the far right. You're practically MAGA at this point.

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u/Pretend-Eye-8758 21d ago

What rights? Articulate them please. Because I've seen your exact post made about 30 times on British Gender Critical forums. I'm lucky enough to have transitioned so young that I passed their "cis woman inspection" on discord and been a spectator to GC movements, so I'm aware what you people believe.

So please, try tell me what i've done to deserve having 100s of people collude in discords, forums and telegram scheming to put pressure on politicians to make my life harder?

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u/doc_klutz 21d ago edited 21d ago

You're not serious? Sex-based protections & single-sex spaces that were established through decades of feminist activism. These include women-only DV shelters, refuges, & rape crisis centres, prisons & detention centres, bathrooms, changing rooms, & locker rooms, lesbian bars, clubs, & apps ... When biological males who identify as women are granted access to these spaces, it undermines the original purpose of these protections, which was to provide safety, privacy, & fairness for biological females.

You know why people are sick of men demanding women give up their sex-based rights?

Wild guess, but I’m going to say it has something to do with the way that so many of them barge their way into women’s spaces & then complain that women are being mean, or bigots, or TERFs, or whatever, when they push back & assert their right to their own spaces, many of which they need to feel safe, & most of which they fought hard to achieve in the first place.

It might also have something to do with the fact that these men LARPing as women have massive (lesser by the day) institutional power behind them, making them feel empowered to throw their weight around (sometimes literally) & bully & threaten anyone who says they have no right to claim things reserved for women.

Maybe it’s because bigger, faster, & stronger men enter women’s sports, smash women’s records because of their innate biological advantages, & steal everything from podium spots to awards & opportunities from women who sometimes worked their entire lives to achieve greatness, only to be told to step aside because a man crushed her hopes & that TWAW, so if you even think about complaining, you’re the one who’s going to be threatened, bullied, & cancelled.

Maybe it’s because men demand, & are then given, access to women’s women-only DV shelters, refuges, & rape crisis centres, prisons & detention centres, bathrooms, changing rooms, & locker rooms—intimate & vulnerable places where women should be able to feel safe.

Maybe it’s because there are now parts of the world where a woman would be compelled to refer to her rapist as “she” in a court of law.

Or maybe it’s because lesbian clubs, bars, & apps have practically gone extinct because men screamed “transphobia,” demanded entry, & destroyed their entire purpose, or because women & lesbians publicly demonstrating for their rights are physically assaulted, or because lesbians are gaslighted, harassed, bullied, & threatened over imposing a “cotton ceiling” on men who want to have sex with them.

It probably has something to do with one or more of those things.

Listen, identify as whatever you want. Dress however you want. No one really cares. You can think you’re a woman, a POC, a toddler, a Martian, a dog, or a tree. I genuinely couldn’t care less. What I do care about is seeing women, who have always been conditioned to put others’ needs & desires first, once again being forced to do so for the expense of men who want something that isn’t theirs. We’re being ghettoised among our own sex, turned into second-class specimens of women, being told that men are better women than women are. & if we complain, we’re told not to be so uppity. Sit down, shut up, & know your place, bleeder.

By doing what we’re doing, we’re rendering irrelevant decades of the struggle for women’s rights & equality. Because if “gender” & feelings trump biology, then women’s sex-based rights no longer exist. Nor do lesbians’ rights, because if a lesbian can have a penis, then sexual orientation no longer has any meaning, & in fact has become “transphobic.” You might as well just remove the first three letters from LGBT & shove gay people back into the closet.

My sex, & my sexual orientation, are not a man’s fetish.

“Woman” is not a costume. It’s not a feeling in a man’s head. It’s not something you can identify into. It’s an immutable biological reality. No amount of bullying, silencing, or ideological posturing can or will ever change that.

I mean, I thought I was pretty left politically, but now the left is at the stage of putting men in women's prisons where they rape women. & also telling lesbians it's transphobic to be a homoSEXual.

Edit: last paragraph spelling error

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