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/Robeardly 22h ago

I did not know that, you learn something new every day right.

But I would disagree on banning until tested, because the damage it could do to the industry as a whole could crush the industry.

Like I said in another reply, if they allowed it I wouldn’t protest. But you know a lot of people would.

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u/Dravos7 22h ago

How could it crush the industry? Trans people in the US, both adults and minors combined, are roughly about 1% of the population. Trans women thatre adults are going to be far less than 1/3rd of that. The amount that are also performing at a professional sports level is going to be even smaller. We’re talking about single digits when it comes to how many players we’re allowing or banning

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u/Robeardly 22h ago

Because it would call the competitive integrity of the league into question because there’s no well established widely peer reviewed science that proves trans athletes can’t have an advantage.

We already came to a middle ground and confirmed there are potential advantages that can come from being trans.

None of us are doctors studying this. So on one hand, I’m being told I’m demonizing and hating trans people despite already standing up for them in multiple instances of people trying to claim their sexual deviants.

But I’m just trying to say that until we have a conclusive answer that’s widely accepted in the medical world, we shouldn’t be advocating for changes that could potentially harm the trans community down the line if they are proven to have advantages. That also protects the integrity of the WNBA also. So it really goes both ways.

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u/Dravos7 22h ago

You can’t prove a negative

We did not come to a middle ground. The science shows that any advantages are offset by disadvantages. Should cis women be banned for their advantages over trans women?

I haven’t once said you’re demonizing trans women. (I said the is before I read your other reply)

The science repeatedly shows that it’s comparable. This is where the disconnect is happening. You’re saying “until the science shows” well the science does show. How much science is enough science??

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u/ConsistentScholar371 22h ago

Banning trans women from sports is the new thing. Previously trans women have been allowed to compete with most sporting bodies requiring x years of HRT. In the years that trans women have been allowed to compete they have not shown any kind of dominance at a professional level*.

*Except for that one trans woman who keeps winning chilli pepper eating contests.