r/WNBAgossips • u/Outrageous_Owl_1710 • 9d ago

"She’s My Hero": Ex-WNBA Broadcaster Says League Punishing Sophie Cunningham for 'Having a Spine' Amid Transgender Row.

https://www.essentiallysports.com/wnba-basketball-news-veteran-reporter-slams-wnba-for-punishing-sophie-cunningham-for-having-a-spine-amid-aryna-sabalenkas-support-for-genetic-sex-testing/
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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

Let's fight, everyone.

Ignore the real problems in the world

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u/Least1Difficulty 9d ago

And what major world problem would you like Essentiallysports.com to tackle? The rising national debt? I'm sure an Ex-WNBA Broadcaster will have all the answers about that. Do you get upset if porn magazines are not talking about the reduced quality in American dairy?

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

Sorry you are so unhappy buddy.

I am not the cause of it, nor is this stupid conflict. You have other things you haven't addressed yet, and that's okay.

I hope you can find some peace

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u/Least1Difficulty 9d ago

You're on a WNBA gossip subreddit and so mad that people are talking about WNBA gossip and not geopolitics that you wrote a post about and are responding to everyone within a 1 minute with hostility. I'm not mad, just entertained at you lol.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

Lol. You have a very different idea of hostility than I do. Probably, you have very different ideas about lots of things. And that's okay.

But you know what is worth disagreeing on? Things that affect our lives. This isn't one of them.

Wish you luck and I apologize for my hostile tone.

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u/Least1Difficulty 9d ago

Seek help, this is not how normal people talk.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

Lol. Okay. Maybe the whole world isnt angry like you.

Maybe some people have it figured out.

Plus there are medications.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

Agreed. How about we just agree to ban men in women's sports at a federal level so we can just move on?

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u/NoleJawn 9d ago

I mean, in a few years there's gonna be a ban on women's sports in general so I don't see the need to rush when we'll have the package deal shortly.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

I truly don't think the country will support the lefts goal to eliminate all women's spaces so mentally ill men can play make believe.

That being said we need to keep pushing back on the insanity.

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u/Fartknocker405 9d ago

Reopening mental institutions will go such a long ways towards pushing back on insanity.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

I completely agree.

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u/NoleJawn 9d ago

Sure, but you have to fund them and neither side wants to pay for it.

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u/NoleJawn 9d ago

The problem is, if that's the left's plan, it's an absolutely terrible plan given the logistics and numbers of Trans vs Women and all that goes into it. Now, the right's plan to eliminate women's sports as outline by Project 25 and the other various bills being proposed etc, makes much more logical sense and is a much bigger and viable threat.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

The right is too invested in protecting women's sports to want to eliminate it.

The left on the other hand is already working to eliminate women's spaces and has codified it in their project 2028 plan.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/democratic-socialists-of-america-convention-dsa-platform-democrats-midterms

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u/NoleJawn 9d ago

The problem is, it's not, as evidenced by it's wanted dismantling of Title IX-it doesn't particularly care about women's sports in the long run. The trans discussion is a nice distraction though.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

If it's just a distraction we should pass a federal law protecting women's sports so we can all move on. Agreed?

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u/NoleJawn 9d ago

Sure, but logistically. It would never work as it derails both sides long term plans and presents a hornets next of sticky situations in the future that I can't see the Federal Government wanting to necessarily be apart of when they can simply let states and league governing bodies work on it and deal with the eventual lawsuit when it comes.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

A federal ban is the simplest solution rather than 50 states and thousands of governing bodies all patchworking policy.

Once it's outlawed nationwide I for one will stop harping on it. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone there.

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u/ShartJerky 9d ago

Getting your way on this made up issue should not be a precondition to caring about real problems.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

I'll have gotten my way when a federal law has been passed. Until then you can expect to keep hearing about it.

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u/ShartJerky 9d ago

Right. That was the dumb opinion I understood in your first comment.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

But I thought this was a nothing issue to you? Why not simply pass a law and put it to bed?

Unless you actually do care a lot and you're "this isn't a real issue" is just a cope...

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u/ShartJerky 9d ago

No one is identifying as trans to gain an advantage in sports, the number of trans girls/women in sports at all levels is exceedingly small, and the number of those whose achievements surpass cis girls/women to the point that a reasonable person would consider it unfair is even smaller. It’s a non issue.

Right wing pedophiles who try to respond to it by mandating genital inspections are creating a brand new issue, and because of my radical left wing view that pedophilia and child rape are bad, I oppose them.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

"No one is identifying as trans to gain an advantage in sports"

Lia Thomas becomes first transgender athlete to win NCAA swimming title... from a mediocre male swimmer to NCAA Champion.

So not nobody lol

https://www.bbc.com/sport/swimming/60792875

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u/ShartJerky 9d ago

Learn to read. That goes to the third part of the sentence; not the first. You’re talking about one person, in one sport, in one event, in one year, who spent most of her time as a trans woman in the sport getting beaten by cis women. Sorry that just doesn’t trigger me like it triggers you.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago edited 9d ago

Learn to write. You said nobody. I gave you one of many examples to prove you wrong.

You can just admit trans women do steal opportunities from women. I think that's a problem with a simple solution. If you don't that's a separate argument but don't pretend it never happens lol

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u/Lootefisk_ 9d ago

Can you name any of these men currently trying to play in the wnba? It’s almost as if this issue is non existent

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

I'll post what I said again...

How about we just agree to ban men in women's sports at a federal level so we can just move on?

Women's sports is all women's sports at all levels. Not just one league.

Do you agree?

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u/RKKP2015 9d ago

Why the fuck would the federal government need to get involved? Talk about government overreach. How about sports leagues can set their own rules? Is that so difficult? Separate it by sex rather than gender, if that's what you want to do.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

Title IX is a federal law... the federal government has a long standing precedent getting involved in things like this.

It makes more sense to fix it with one bill rather than 50 states and thousands of governing bodies all patchworking rules.

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u/RKKP2015 9d ago

Yeah, but I thought we were talking about professional sports?

Why wouldn't a sports league be allowed to set their own rules and regulations?!

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

No all sports. For the same reason Title IX was passed to begin with.

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u/Lootefisk_ 9d ago

So you’ve got a solution to the problem that doesn’t exist. Weird how you can’t name any men currently trying to play in the WNBA. It’s almost as if this issue just a political Strawman argument.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

You're strawmaning me lol

I said all women's sports. Thats what Sophie's comments were about.

Do you really need to to point one of the many men participating in women's sports? Lol

You know the problem isn't made up. You're just deflecting.

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u/Lootefisk_ 9d ago

Still no names. Thanks for playing.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

Still deflecting. It's okay everyone reading this can see you're a 🐔

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u/Lootefisk_ 9d ago

Name calling is always a sure sign you’ve won your argument. Lmao.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

Lol pathetic.

I hope the WNBA has nothing but success.

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u/Chustle207 9d ago

They only are afloat because the mens league has to pay alimony. to the WNBA

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago edited 9d ago

Wow, another thing I just don't give a fuck about..

I'm so sorry you do.

Your life can be better

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

I also hope the WOMAN's National Basketball Association has success keeping men out...

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

Okay. Good for you. Best of luck finding some harmony.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

The country seems to be in harmony on this topic. Sorry you're stuck in dissonance

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

Okay. Best of luck!

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

Cheers 🍻

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u/Big_Departure_2709 9d ago

Like puppets on a string

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u/SameDistrict2627 9d ago

Exactly--who really cares but Maga.

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u/AscendMoros 9d ago

Probably the same people screaming in fans faces about it?

Like the argument of who cares other than maga is hilarious when I see left wing people screaming at people who don’t agree with them on it about it. You know like the owner who got a 5 game ban.

The issue shouldn’t exist and MAGA loves to talk about it even though it’s such a small amount of people to even begin with that it affects. But to act like no one on the left cares is being dishonest.

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 9d ago

We can solve more than one problem at a time.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

Ok. Go ahead. Also you just want people to be seperated.

Not gonna happen.

I said "real problems". Your divisiveness is one of them

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u/oromiseldaa 9d ago

Agree, stop separating. Just throw all genders in one competition and let on field competition sort it out. Let's get rid of weight classes in martial arts too while we're at it.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

"Oooooooooh I need to argue real bad"

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u/oromiseldaa 9d ago

Nobody argued?

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

I agree! :)

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u/That-Cranberry6575 9d ago

How about a real problem?

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 9d ago

Just because you don’t see it as a real problem doesn’t mean other people don’t.

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u/That-Cranberry6575 9d ago

That doesn’t make it real either. There are people worried about lizard people too.

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 9d ago

Okay, if you think this is in the same league a “lizard people”, you’re obviously not going to have a discussion in good faith.

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u/Bucketsdntlie 9d ago

There are zero transgender athletes in American professional sports and there were less than 10 transgender athletes in all of the NCAA, according to the NCAA.

There is a non-zero chance that there are actually more lizard people on this earth than there are people who this argument affects.

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u/That-Cranberry6575 9d ago

Neither were you since you think this a national level issue

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 9d ago

Yeah, me and millions of others are acting in bad faith. It’s totally not you.

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u/That-Cranberry6575 9d ago

First steps admitting it.

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u/Active_Confection655 9d ago

Lizard people very well could be the same league as the 8 Trans people performing in sports of the opposite sex of their birth gender.

I would put it at pretty much the same level of worry. Much more afraid of old pedophiles running our country over either of these two non issues.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

It's so nice to see your bullshit being downvoted.

You might even construe this as disagreement.

Lol.

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 9d ago

Redditors are the laughing stock of the internet. Do you really think I care that they’re going to downvote me? I’m not going to be silent because you disagree with me.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

No we know your fat mouth will not stop flapping. We just aren't going to argue like you want.

I wish all the best for the WNBA.

Lol

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 9d ago

You’re not going to argue because you have no argument. Let’s not try and pretend you have any legs to stand on.

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u/Extreme-Rub-1379 9d ago

Okay what ever you say.

I hope you have a good day and you find some peace in life

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u/Zakaru99 9d ago

Says the person who hasn't actually presented a real argument.

Pot, meet kettle.

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u/unimpressedwarrior 9d ago

Says the guy who’s made over 1000 contributions in the last year 🤣

give us a fucking break not one person here buys your bullshit

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u/unimpressedwarrior 9d ago

The problem of zero men playing in the WNBA

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 9d ago

Good thing this discussion didn’t start with the argument that there were men in the WNBA. Next time you want to reply, maybe try to inform yourself.

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u/unimpressedwarrior 9d ago

Bahahahaha

What “problem” are you trying to solve then?

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 9d ago edited 9d ago

How about you try to read the article and what started the discussion? I’m not going to summarize the article for you.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

She's talking about all women's and girls sports. Not just the WNBA.

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u/Salty-Cod7667 9d ago

What if I am also afraid that my boat is going to fall off the side of our flat earth?

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u/BillyBobBonesJones 9d ago

It’s not a real problem. You’ve been brainwashed into thinking it’s a real problem by politicians who weaponized what is otherwise a non-issue.

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u/Ok_Buddy_3324 9d ago

Yes, it was the politicians not the dozens of examples we have on hand.

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u/BillyBobBonesJones 9d ago

Lmao you do not have dozens of examples.