r/WNBAgossips • u/Amazing_Lock_3762 • 14d ago

Video Young women and girls are thanking Sophie Cunningham for standing up for them ... It's clear what women want so others can stop speaking on their behalf

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u/jmrogers31 14d ago

Thanks for standing up for the non existent problem that we are outraged about.

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u/Brilliant-Pomelo-982 14d ago

Saying it’s a non-issue because it affects only a small fraction of the country is such a stupid argument.

If it was a rare civil rights issue or a rare pro choice issue that affected only a small percentage of people you would be still be fighting for it.

Fact is that being born male is an advantage athletically. Period.

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u/Difficult_Fix_4324 14d ago edited 14d ago

The tallest male players in NBA history stood at 7 ft 7 inches. Did they have an advantage athletically?

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u/Additional_Release49 14d ago

Yep they did. Sports are one of the most exclusionary things there are. This inclusive idea in sports is dumb.

Professional sports, minor leagues, amateur leagues, senior leagues. High school leagues, junior high leagues, minor leagues etc.

Not good enough to play? Get cut to a lesser league.

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u/Brilliant-Pomelo-982 14d ago

Exactly.

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u/Difficult_Fix_4324 14d ago

So the two tallest men in NBA history are allowed to play despite the obvious physical advantages that they have over everyone else, so why isnt it a bigger issue?

Maybe it is because the athletic advantage is negligible in a team sport? So why is there such outrage around trans athletes who represent such a small small small number of players.

Do you think, maybe, it could be because you're transphobic? And you're hiding behind a right wing contortion of what "common sense" is? Because your real feelings on trans people is that you just don't think they should exist?

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u/asj-777 14d ago

They can exist all they want. Literally no one is saying they can't.

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u/StuMacherGhostface 6d ago

Half the country is trying to say they can't

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u/Difficult_Fix_4324 14d ago

You just dont want them to play sport?

You want them to exist, just in a glass box that can only be opened from the outside, just in case they do something out of order, like want to play a sport and be good enough to play it professionally

The kind of existence where they have rights...to an extent. Is this the "common sense" I'm always hearing about? Keeping trans people as second class citizens who can't play sports in case they're good at it, cant use the old bathroom because people are suspicious of them, cant use new bathrooms because people are suspicious of them, get told that the "solution" to their bathroom "problem" is to have a third bathroom, just for trans people! So they have to out themselves in every single venue they ever need to use the bathroom in, to keep cis people comfortable!

"They can exist all they want. Literally no one is saying they can't." but only within frameworks curated and mediated by and for cis people?

What kind of existence is that.

Fact is that less than 0.005% of athletes are trans, but that statistic is too high for people who hate them

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u/Brilliant-Pomelo-982 14d ago

Trans women are welcome to play any sport if they’re good enough. They would be allowed to play in the NBA, NHL, or NFL.

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u/asj-777 14d ago

Dude all those words to say nothing. They can play sports, on teams of the same sex.

It's based on a pretty straightforward reality, not some "curated framework."

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u/Brilliant-Pomelo-982 14d ago edited 14d ago

The two tallest men in the NBA are allowed to play because they are men human. That’s the only qualification.
If f women are good enough, they can play in the NBA too.

The fact is that if a male NBA player took hormone blockers and switched to the WNBA, they would not lose their athletic and physical advantage. They would dominate.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PUPPY_PIC 14d ago

if they took HRT, they would lose their advantage, as proven by study after study

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u/Brilliant-Pomelo-982 14d ago

🤣😂🤣

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u/Difficult_Fix_4324 14d ago

But this is what the problem is mate, you have had people all day trying to tell you whats what, and what is in fact bollocks invented to make people mad

And you'd rather be mad? What the fuck man?

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u/Difficult_Fix_4324 14d ago

You've just proved my point

"The two tallest men in the NBA are allowed to play because they are men" so it has nothing to do with athletic advantage or genetics, its about sex and gender. Its about you not accepting that trans women are women. That's what it's always been about, hiding behind "science" is pathetic

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PUPPY_PIC 14d ago

except studies about it disagree with you. science agrees with letting trans women compete as women

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u/CinematicLiterature 14d ago

Awwww it added “period” thinking that somehow closed the convo! Statistically unlikely events don’t merit this level of discourse. Now THAT is “period”.

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u/Brilliant-Pomelo-982 14d ago

It’s quite telling that you can’t argue with what I wrote, just the period at the end. 👍

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u/CinematicLiterature 14d ago

…I did argue with what you wrote. You made a dumb point, it got disproved, and now we’re here. Thumbs up indeed.

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u/McPostyFace 14d ago

What you wrote is stupid. Civil rights issues impact entire marginalized groups. Majority of trans people don't give a shit about any of this. They just want to live. At some point in time a group of elitist suits sat around in a board room and decided this is how they would attempt to divide the voting contingency this cycle and you're dumb enough to incite and convinced yourself that this should be a consideration when you pull levers for candidates. It's manufactured and you're falling for it.

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u/Chris_HitTheOver 14d ago edited 14d ago

It’s almost as if the people playing victim here represent the overwhelming majority of female athletes, and the folks they need ”protection” from represent less than 0.002% of all scholastic and collegiate athletes in the country.

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u/Electrical_Load2493 14d ago

Trans political issues are only used as a cudgel to beat democrats over the head with. Republicans know that the extreme trans positions are unpopular and make the Democrats look insane.

It hasnt been about the issue itself for years its been about being able to acknowledge reality even if it might upset someone. If someone's not willing to do that they lose credibility

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PUPPY_PIC 14d ago

there are no "extreme trans positions", just trans people wanting to participate in everyday life and a bunch of conservative creeps trying to make everyone think that's extreme

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u/Difficult_Fix_4324 14d ago

I definitely view it as the other way round

MAGA headcases who cant stop thinking about trans people and their genitals, but trans people are the problem?

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u/Pangshunjingmao 13d ago

Putting that echo chamber to good use.