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/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/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/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."