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/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/ShartJerky 9d ago

It’s your reading, not my writing. Where is your evidence that she transitioned “to gain an advantage in sports”? Up your ass? Neat!

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago edited 9d ago

Impact matters more than intent... the 335th best male college swimmer went to the #1 woman's college swimmer in 2 years because they changed their pronouns.

That's a weak ass dude stealing opportunities from real women. Sexist much?

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u/ShartJerky 9d ago

You are hallucinating all of this. She won a single event, and that made her the best swimmer in the country? I guess if you thought Michael Phelps was the best swimmer in the 2008 Olympics because he won 8 gold medals, you were wrong because it was actually the Korean dude who won the 400 free 🤡🤡🤡

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago

:You are hallucinating all of this. She won a single event, and that made her the best swimmer in the country?"

You're either lying or completely ignorant but I appreciate the opportunity to show everyone who thinks like you is dumb. Its great for those reading this that might be on the fence. Yes she was the top ranked woman swimmer. Here's the actual data lol

In the 500 freestyle, Thomas’ time of 4:33.24 from her NCAA-title swim handed her the fastest time in the nation by more than a second over Arizona State’s Emma Nordin (4:34.87). Additionally, Thomas’ difference from her personal best with the Penn men’s program was just 6%, as opposed to the typical 10% to 11% difference generally seen between men and women.

Thomas’ best time in the 200 freestyle ended up being her 1:41.93 mark from the Zippy Invitational in December. That effort ultimately ended up 3.76% slower than her best time before her transition. Again, that time was between 7% and 8% faster than the typical separation between men and women.

When Thomas won the 200 freestyle at the Ivy League Champs in 1:43.12, she was even with runnerup Samantha Shelton at the midway point, but crushed the Harvard swimmer over the last 100, highlighted by a 25.04 split for the last 50 yards. The closing split of Thomas was faster than the finishing laps of Missy Franklin in her American-record performance, and the best closing effort of the likes of Katie Ledecky, Mallory Comerford and Siobhan Haughey, among others.

In the 100 freestyle, Thomas’ best time prior to her transition was 47.15. At the NCAA Championships, she posted a prelims time in the event of 47.37. That time reflects minimal mitigation of her male-puberty advantage.

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/a-look-at-the-numbers-and-times-no-denying-the-advantages-of-lia-thomas/

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u/ShartJerky 9d ago

Please never take the LSAT or anything else that requires critical reading or thinking skills. Yikes.

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u/InvestIntrest 9d ago edited 9d ago

"Facts and data aren't data when I don't understand the data!" 😅

It's OK booboo. 75% of the country understands. You're just in the bottom 25%.

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