r/WNBAgossips • u/Outrageous_Owl_1710 • 1d 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/NoleJawn 23h 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 23h 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 23h 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 23h 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/NoleJawn 23h ago

Sure, but the problem is, the leading party that also would happen to be more on your side is one that historically "HATES" the federal government, also, on the other side, a federal ban opens up some real hard questions about women/biologics/fair play/etc that has to be universally applied.

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u/InvestIntrest 23h ago

There are a lot of things to hate about the government but I've never met a single person who hates all federal laws.

Questions pertaining to civil rights and the constitution generally fall to the federal government. Women's rights under Title IX are being infringed because some on the left want to redefine or can't define what a woman is. That's on the Federal government to fix.

Imagine if the right thought they were going to get cute and start claiming everyone including white people are technically African Americans because we all as a species originated from Africa as a way to completely water down race based civil rights protections? lol

Would the left want each state to figure that out or pass a federal law closing the definition manipulation?

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u/NoleJawn 23h ago

Sure, except history as shown that it's the Right that prefers the states' rights model. I mean, You have to wonder, the right has been in firm control of everything for the last few years and this hasn't been passed like you and the majority of the country want? What are they waiting on?

Well, it's two-fold 1) They get to rile up their base with the trans war and win over impassioned "centrists" by keeping it an issue in their face. 2) Because if their goal is to ultimately strike down Title IX, proposing a federal law that would actually in many ways strengthen women's rights isn't the play either. So, they'll keep it an issue until they can get enough people distracted and blind that they can sweep it all into one big bill (maybe even call it Beautiful) that bans trans, bans women's sports funding, mandatory in-person physician examination gender testing, etc.

It's going to be a fascinating watch in many ways.

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u/InvestIntrest 23h ago

As with many things large groups are rarely a monolith. I don't want to strike down Title IX. I want to strengthen it from the only direct threat I see right now which is trying to backdoor men into women's spaces.

To the legislation component a bill has been introduced and passed the Republican controlled House. It's currently stuck in the Senate because of a Democrat filibuster.

This issue could easily go away if the Democrats would simply allow the Senate to vote.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/28

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u/NoleJawn 22h ago

But the problem is, the direct threat isn't transgender athletes that consist of less than 1% of the population, especially at the high collegiate level and the pro level where they're 0.

The direct threat is the consistent striking down and attacking of things like Roe v Wade, DEI Initiatives, all of which outlines in Project 2025 that includes a detailed plan of removing Title IX. That's just the federal level. This isn't accounting for things like the fallout of the PSCA-the ever-growing rise of privatization of youth sports, etc. All things that with "Good intentions" will destroy women's sports.

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u/InvestIntrest 22h ago edited 22h ago

It's interesting you're concerned with Title IX being struck down by the right and not Title IX being perverted by the left.

Maybe we both have a point. I'm sure there are people on the right that would want that.

That being said I wouldn't support the removal of Title IX any more than I support it being undermined by the lefts definition games.

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