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

I'm really enjoying this turn of events. If the WNBA decides a woman is anyone who says they are, they'll have to let these men join the practices. I won't be surprised if they try to waffle their way out of this. Which will not please the gender people. I'm sure there will be more men joining in.

They're just gonna go around and around in circles until they get permanent vertigo.
TRAs forcing the consensus that men can play in women's sports is the literal rubicon moment for the schism.
Sport depends on absolute adherence to rules, and absolute agreement on reality.
Winning and losing depends on mere microseconds, the slightest advantage or disadvantage.
Male advantage, starting at male puberty, is all that matters here, GCs like us know it, TRAs know it, and the sports authorities and their doctors/physiologists know it.
That's why TRAs are so desperate to crack women's sport, because of a couple of things.
First, it absolutely shatters women's confidence and self worth. Sport is an area women can contend and rise to the top without male entitlement in the way.
Warp the women's category, and women's rights effectively collapse.
Secondly, the TRAs winning this battle effectively win the prize of language and ideas.
Change things so that males can play in women's sports, and effectively nothing means what it means anymore.
Language, science, societal norms and development are all crushed.
Society allows men in women's sports, then everything is up for grabs.

Good work that man!

Basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom, who is 6ft 10in, has announced he's applying to join the WNBA.

"After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I'm officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect. If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA,"

"My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA's eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in April 2027," he said.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/wnba-scrambling-now-fans-react-043255918.html

BlueSky and Wikipedia are always reliable and sound sources to link to when verification is needed for reality denying opinions.

Gosh… imagine a sport with protected categories based on personality traits and behaviours!

The female tennis players have been asked the question over this week about sex screening and are in support.

It is remarkable to see basketball and football in the USA is still not setting policy to follow the same policy as the OIC.

And a sex screening test within a policy that specifically excludes male athletes who have male pubertal advantages along with current anti-doping tests and policies will fully support the prevention of female athletes being wrongly accused of being male.

Isn’t it interesting that there are people who immediately try to distract from the issue which is anyone person who is considered male under the current IOC sex screening tests by limiting the discussion to male people with transgender identities.

No male person who has a body formed around the production of small gametes where that body has ever had the ability to produce testosterone at male levels and the ability to process that testosterone to virilise along a male pathway should be included in female sports categories. This is the OIC policy now and the policy of a growing number of sporting regulators.

The narrowing of the discussion seems to be a rather obvious distraction technique and distortion of the discussion.

Wow, and up is down, rain pours upwards, etc.
You know that Cunningham speaks for the vast vast majority, only your imposed period of silencing dissent kept your flimsy hold on society intact.
Now that "no debate" is over, you have to try and sound confident, because you can't trash women's free speech anymore.
The only person you're fooling is yourself.

So How is it going for you now? I have no idea whether there are none or some TiMs competing in the WNBA but I am pretty damn certain that 'personality traits' should not be used as a qualifier.

This is good. Fair play to Enes Kanter Freedom. Do stunning and brave!

I don't know if the right wing wedgers you refer to, whoever they are, 'care a bit about women in sport'.

But I do know that I care a lot about women in sport, and it's good to have someone high profile like Sophie Cunningham having the courage to speak out in support of women's sports being for biological women, in the face of the kind of smears she's been getting, e.g. calling her MAGA Barbie when she has not made any party-political statements, or accusing her of being 'anti-trans' although she said
“I truly believe there is a safe space and love for EVERYBODY. Biological girls, biological boys, trans women, and trans men. Everyone is welcome at my table! You can disagree and still be kind."

As hate-fuelled transphobia goes, it's a bit crap, isn't it, Mouldemort?
It would have been helpful if she had actually said something nasty about transpeople, it would have made accusations that she is 'anti-trans' less far-fetched.

But no, she unsportingly talks about safety and love and kindness for transpeople - very inconvenient, but the facts often are.

It's a right wing grift. She's following in the footsteps of other women who are acceptable to anti-trans conservatives, and she will be living off this grift for years. There are literally no trans women in the WBNA and their never have been.

Fortunately, there are other women athletes who do support trans rights such as the awesome Gabby Williams.

"“There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime,” Williams said. “I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

Head coach Natalie Nakase also supports transgender people:

“I’m big on that because I have been criticized for my height, for my ethnicity. I’ve been in those ‘you shouldn’t belong here,’ [moments] and for me I don’t want that space, especially Golden State, to ever feel like that. I’m all about women, little girls deserving to play, and that includes trans women. So I’m all about inclusivity.”

It's the usual right wing wedges issues, supported by useful idiots in the gender critical movement. If you think they care a bit about women in sport you are a fool.

https://bsky.app/profile/twinskippy.bsky.social/post/3mshg5ybxic2v

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/aug/7/enes-kanter-freedom-declares-2027-wnba-prospect-cites-eligibility/

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Enes Kanter Freedom declares himself 2027 WNBA prospect, cites eligibility rules

“Former NBA center Enes Kanter Freedom said Friday he is declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, saying he has examined the league’s eligibility rules and believes they make him eligible — a claim that is not supported by the WNBA’s published rules.

In a video posted to X, Mr. Freedom, wearing an orange WNBA-branded sweatshirt, said his team had “carefully examined the WNBA’s eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion.”

“Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in April 2027,” he said.

The WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement does not contain a self-identification standard. Article XIII, Section 1(a) of the 409-page agreement states only that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA,” and does not define “woman” or address gender identity anywhere in the document, according to an OutKick report. Neither the WNBA nor the players’ union has publicly clarified how eligibility would be determined for a transgender or self-identified player, the outlet reported.

Freedom, an 11-year NBA veteran and the third overall pick of the 2011 draft, said he was not trying to mock anyone.

“I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices,” he said, adding that he wants the WNBA’s rules “applied equally, consistently, and without exception.”

The post is capitalizing on controversy surrounding remarks from Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, who said in a July ESPN profile that she wants to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to compete against biological men, while maintaining she does not “hate trans” people. The remarks have prompted rallies and counter-rallies outside WNBA arenas, and Cunningham addressed the fallout again this week, telling a USA Network broadcast that she wants “love and respect” to remain even amid disagreement, while lamenting that the debate has overshadowed the basketball itself, according to an OutKick report.

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Freedom has previously floated joining the WNBA as a rhetorical device. In 2023, he suggested he could “put on a wig, identify as a woman” to compete in the league, remarks he said at the time were meant to make a point about male athletes in women’s sports rather than a serious bid to play, according to a Sporting News report carried by Yahoo Sports. “

That comparison between Sophie Cunningham and Coco Gauff is fascinating given the article I've just stumbled across, written by a woman who was a Chinese Red Guard in her youth. She writes of having to be extremely careful to say the right things in the right way and to pretend to believe in absurdities, or she might be denounced by the Faithful. Sounds familiar.

www.freespeechbacklash.com/article/cautionary-tale-tyranny-one-maos-little-red-guards

I've pretty much lost all my Democrat friends. All two of them, lol. Not denouncing Trump enough, and boring them to tears on my objections to TRA, were enough to pay to them.

It reminds me of women complaining that their ideas are ignored or talked over and then A Man will say the same thing and the boss saying "oh wow great input Chad, so glad you're in the meeting!"

And it's weird because the liberals/democrats are the good guys, or so they like to think and tell us all the time. (some of my friends are democrats!)

It's why Sophie's interjection is so important. It draws out so called trans ally "middle grounders" to have to face up to the truth of what she's saying.
Gauff then rephrases Sophie's comments into tones that are more acceptable despite as you say pretty much conveying what Sophie was saying all along.
Because in the end, the science is the science and the truth is the truth whatever the Just Be Kinders want to have it.
The narrative is drifting from the groupthinkers and they know they're losing the room.

Coco Gauff is getting a lot of praise on social media for her 'thoughtful and empathetic' response a question the WTA's new genetic testing policy:

"I understand the reasoning behind it. I do think that this kind of conversation has created a lot of animosity towards the trans community, which I'm not really a big fan of, but I also understand the need to [account for] the biological difference and the need to protect that and preserve that. So I think it's a conversation that is very nuanced.

I kind of agree with trying to protect the fairness in women's sports. But I also do not like the attack that it is creating. People who don't really care, but just want to use this as a reason to attack the trans community. So I'm not really a big fan of that either. I don't really know how to answer this question in a way that people aren't going to spin it. But as far as where I stand, I definitely support the trans community, but I also support the need of creating fairness in sport too."

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she's basically said the same thing as Sophie Cunningham. But everyone knows Gauff is liberal, so her position is progressive. Cunningham is coded as MAGA, so she's a bigot.