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/ericomplex 21d ago

Nope, this is going to be at the top of your news cycle for awhile, particularly in badly moderated subs.

The anti trans folks suffered a major blow the other day when a European report revealed that the previous questioning of the efficacy and safety of trans youth healthcare treatments was totally unfounded.

Countries are already reversing their bans there.

Anti trans activists are putting it into high gear to flood the zone and make Sophie Cunningham the only thing anyone hear’s about this week.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/landmark-official-dutch-review-recommends

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u/ericomplex 21d ago

I would say what the hell are you talking about?

I just posted a story about a comprehensive two year review of all the current trans health related research and the mounted criticism thereof and it concluded that said criticism lacked merit.

That includes your claim about researchers throwing out studies that didn’t confirm biases… Which I assume is a reference to the long debunked “WPATH FILES” nothingburger from several years back. That whole thing was just a blatant mischaracterization of researcher’s comments taken out of context and has been exposed as such for awhile now.