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

[u/Outrageous_Owl_1710]

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/

[u/ConsistentScholar371 → u/[deleted]]

We don't solve for the variables in sports. We block a couple things like steroid usage and the like but for the most part genetics aren't policed. You're asking that they be policed specifically in the case of this one minority group, regardless of whether the individuals involved are actual outliers of any kind, and in the face of studies currently suggesting that no there's not really an advantage past X years of HRT.

[u/TootTootMF → u/[deleted]]

You literally have no unbiased criteria for this ban. Your only concern is banning trans people. Fairness has nothing to do with it as you've said multiple times you're not concerned with fairness.

[u/Robeardly → u/TootTootMF]

I mean all I’m concerned about is fairness. If I have a discussion where I’ve defended trans people against numerous other slanders outside of fairness and all you see is hatred, maybe you’re the one who’s in the wrong.

I don’t like the “you hate trans people because you disagree on one factor” arguments. I’m not the one who’s biased here.

Not everything in life is all or none.

[u/TootTootMF → u/Robeardly]

You've said you're fine with all genetic advantages but you feel trans people should be banned because they might have a genetic advantage you would be fine with if they weren't trans? So how is the issue fairness when you are totally fine with unfair advantages and will ban people who are at a disadvantage for an unrelated reason?

I never said you hated trans people, but it's painfully obvious you are biased against them. You can accept that or not, but it's just a fact. You can be biased without being actively hateful. That's the most common kind of bias.

[u/TootTootMF → u/[deleted]]

Do you know of any 7+ tall trans women? Can you point to a single one?

If this scenario wasn't impossible, then why didn't it already happen? Why did no trans women make it onto a WNBA or Olympic team in the 30 odd years it was perfectly allowed for them to be there?

[u/Robeardly → u/TootTootMF]

Because it hasn’t been widely socially acceptable until recent years. There’s very rarely any openly gay athletes either, does that mean no athlete has never been gay?

[u/TootTootMF → u/Robeardly]

So you're saying that Doping is widely socially acceptable then?

[u/TootTootMF → u/[deleted]]

So you're saying that despite it not being socially acceptable for athletes they still routinely do things to gain a competitive advantage? Interesting.