US women’s sports star Sophie Cunningham speaking up on defending women's sports

The pointing she became a sensation for was in defense of her teammate, Caitlyn Clark. (Although she has done it before!) It’s so cute, everyone who takes a picture with her wants her to do the point with them. She volunteers with little girl ballers and the team pic was doing the point with her!

Here’s the exact situation that brought about the point seen ‘round the world, hehe:

Caitlyn Clark is by far the best player in the league, many say in their history. She scored 45 points in her last game. Caitlyn is regularly physically targeted by opposing team members and this time she took a forearm/hand to the throat and neck area that should have been called a foul but was not. (The offending player was later suspended by the league for a game.)

The treatment of Caitlyn is a whole other ball of wax that I won’t get into here, but she gets a lot of physical cheap shots that don’t get called and a lot of unfair treatment.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/wnba/2026/06/25/alyssa-thomas-caitlin-clark-punch-throat-wnba-suspended-fined/90694644007/

Look at the journalists mentioned in this article who came for her.
All female.
Not just unconnected hacks, but sports journalists, one of which Sophie's own sport.
Hacks is too good a word for them.
Let's call them regime quislings.
I followed the story of sheer destruction of women's college volleyball on Quillette.
One single TIM player, his teammates and rival players cowed into submission, the team coach happy to throw his own players to the wolves, a media that didn't do its job, and the whole sport was corrupted.
Looks like Sophie Cunningham is here to draw a line in the sand.
A hero in an era that George Orwell would recognise all too well if he were alive today.

The shoes sold out in both women's and men's 🙂

I liked the line from the Newsweek article: 'outrage loses its power - there's just no currency in outrage any more'

So that's two slogans: 'love is truth' and 'I said what I said'

When the most highly paid barristers representing trans IDing clients in court accidentally misgender them, over and over again, then it's no surprise the brain dead activists can't obfuscate the impossible to reconcile confusion at the heart of their ideology.
And thus why Sophie's messaging is as clear as a crystal lake.

What tickles me about this is that she very clearly said 'biological men', and yet the TRAs and their allies have immediately jumped on it, claiming she said 'trans athletes' or 'trans women'.

Which says to me they know EXACTLY what a trans woman is, because how else could they leap to such a conclusion?

Re the pointing- someone on X has done a mock up of an excellent hoodie, with an image of her pointing and the slogan 'I said what I said' on it.

One of the great ironies is that TRA has never been weaker, despite it being so ever present.
Riley Gaines was monstered less than 5 years ago, hell, even JKR a billionaire, nearly went under early on.
Sophie is proving that one can speak up and more than in the past repel the shit coming one's way.
I'm not saying that's easy for any nurse in the NHS finding men in their changing rooms, or my two female friends harrassed by TIMs in their toilets, but the tide feels on the turn.
What makes TRA seem so intractable has been the culture of silence around it, and that the mantra is transmitted vertically (the cult) and horizontally (the virtue signal).
Sophie is not just fighting those that impose the belief, but also those alongside her who transmit the virtue signal to maintain group solidity.
Her speaking out risks her future career prospects and her day to day friendships/cooperation.

My sketchy outline of the context is that she was involved in a 'kerfuffle' during a match and got penalised, and was pointing at another player who should also have been.
So it seems to have been ' I see you, yes you, the ref may have missed it but I didn't, and I'm pointing you out so everybody sees you'.

Open to correction!

It's refreshing to read about someone standing up and being counted, I love the pic with the 0 fucks given top. 😁

The best of luck to her, it could be a pivotal moment when someone this popular takes a stand, count down to the counterfactual movements demise. 🥳

Love is Honesty. (I'm happy to help spread the word) 😂

From what I could find out there was a player on another team who would get frustrated and passive aggressively point at players (or just Sophie?) presumably calling out what they perceived were fouls or whatever, so Sophie started doing it back to wind her up and it drove the other player mad. They’re fun to watch lol.

What was the pointing about? I saw all the videos but didn’t find a reliable explanation of what she was highlighting. Clearly she’s not someone to annoy! She was great- uncompromising, and an excellent communicator.
Go Sophie!

Classic Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/zzdUIBKWCc

I'm sure Sophie Cunningham is pre-armed for the hate coming her way.

She looks well armed to me. Mole at the Counter on X did this -

People could do with seeing what chaos was unleashed with a TIM on a US female college volleyball team. I read all about it on Quillette, and it was worse than anything you could imagine.
Poor Riley Gaines has been an open target for trans bullying since she came out against Lia Thomas, I'm sure Sophie Cunningham is pre-armed for the hate coming her way.

What a bloody amazing woman. If there is one tiny silver lining to this whole shitshow, it’s to highlight just how many fabulously strong and brave women there are.

And that Newsweek article is a cracker, especially the bit where the virtue signallers gallumphed to X with their opinions…only to find that no one backed them up. Cunningham wasn’t cancelled, didn’t lose her job, wasn’t forced into a grovelling retreat.

Delicious.

I imagine these will now be changing hands for megabucks on reselling sites.

Love her...but that color is an acquired taste, lol.
Loving the projecting right back at the so-called endless reserves of love queer crowd.

What a refreshing read that is, @InConniptions !

She’s launched a new pair of trainers today and they have nearly sold out - look at the colours! I imagine there will be some enraged little men on Reddit https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/other/sophie-cunningham-s-adidas-shoes-nearly-sold-out-in-under-24-hours/ar-AA28BAGP?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Fantastic article, thank you!

I stumbled across Sophie Cunningham with those pointing reels ha, then when this all came about I just about fell in love with her! Love her confidence.

She's fantastic, and people are noticing that cancellation is no longer inevitable in these scenarios. Newsweek has this piece regarding her:
https://www.newsweek.com/sophie-cunningham-trans-women-sport-cancel-culture-12239387

https://archive.is/nUax9

Honesty is now a revolutionary concept.

"I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest.

This is clever, because it is hard to argue with 'love is truth' from a #bekind point of view.
It is a great slogan, I can see it catching on.