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

My scepticism was more about the hyperbolerly about the backlash, I just thought it could well be amped up for dramatic effect given the bias of the article.
It's always the end of the world with these people. 😱

I’ll be interested to see what happens with the rally. I imagine there might be a counter protest, as it’s Seattle.

Her team are clearly hoping this will all just blow over. The footage of the press conference is actually quite funny, all three of the women sat at the table looked so thoroughly fed up. Can we just talk about basketball ...

I did bristle though at the predictible framing of the question. Pro women = anti trans.

That’s brilliant! I think that’s probably the only one in the PNW which didn’t kick off and put women in danger.

I'm afraid that in the US, the trans issue seems to be inextricably linked to Trump/rightwing/conservative/fundamentalism.

I heard part of a speech by one of those 'possible Democrat saviours' - I didn't catch the name, it may have been James Talarico,- which was all about turning public anger to where it should be, not against...and the list which started with 'migrants are not the enemy'[big cheer] ended with 'transpeople are not the enemy' [big cheer].

Transpeople are arguably not the enemy, but trans activism IS the enemy - of women's rights, of women's very identity, of scientific fact, of social progress, of legal fairness, of community cohesion...
But any any pushback against trans extremism is being anti-trans, and anti-trans is pro-Trump.

It's frighteningly like McCarthyism, isn't it?
'are you now or have you every been' less than 100% accepting of all trans activists' demands?

Hopefully she'll peak a lot of undecideds, but the pro-trans ultras have made up their mind that because SC does not accept 100% of trans demands, she must be a right-wing MAGA Barbie - that's the way the 'logic' goes...

edited to take out an irrelevant edit!

Yes, absolutely agree, @MarieDeGournay and some people try that trick here, but not as many people buy it due to it not being particularly relevant to our political landscape and sounding American-centric and out of touch.

That’s why the shadowy “anti rights” funding suggestions are needed from the likes of Amnesty etc. And I’m sure the UK anti abortion movement does get a lot of funding by US Christian Right groups. But that gets extrapolated to all groups they don’t approve of based on their biased understanding of what the majority of “gender critical” women think.

I thought the three around the desk ostensibly on the anti-Sophie side looked totally disinterested and uncomfortable.
Sophie has thrown a spanner into the works, and the pro-males in female sports cadre can't handle it.
They're still using the no debate/cancel culture messaging of 2020/21.
It doesn't work anymore, people have had enough, people are fed up of being shut down
The problem for the other side is that their language and tactics are all they know.

Yes. Trans "rights" (inverted commas because what TRActivists mean by that are not reasonable human rights but specifically accomodating cross sex demands especially demands of men who claim to be women that they have unrestricted access to women's spaces and women's resources) has become a shibboleth, a test of faith.

It's very much the same in omnicause circles in the UK as well.

I think it's the batshittery itself that is part of it: what better way to show purity and open mindedness and above all how far away you are from old fashioned ideas than to wholeheartedly believe a d champion something so totally unintuitive and incorporeal and divorced from boring sometimes scary real life as the belief that "being a man or a woman is a state of mind, bodies just aren't relevant"

https://x.com/sophaller/status/2082675804874604615?s=4

good that she is not backing down.

She posted this after two teenaged girls were cursed at by Celeste Keaton the co owner of the Seattle storms team.

“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.

Bravo to those girls for standing up for what they believe. You’ll be hearing from me soon💕 yay for gifts.

Truly embarrassing of the co-owner. Unfortunately shows the type of leader she is.”

And, this also seems to be part of what the girls also experienced at the event

https://x.com/JackThompsonFOX/status/2082599355446374911/video/1?s=46

This must have been very scary for those girls

Picture that man in a dress and lippy and you can see exactly why women want their spaces, sports, prisons etc back.

And while they're at it they can get the F out of our faces as well. 😤

Its getting to the pointy end especially as in the UK you are going towards the same-sex space ban.

I got into an online argurment with a transwomen comedian who - when I explained that women are hypervigilant for males presence when they are removing their clothes i.e. toilets/changing rooms. This dude asked why are your removing your clothes in a changing room- are you flashing people?

I was reading a thread on r/wnba which popped up in my feed, celebrating the Seattle player who wore a “trans rights are human rights” t shirt as if she was Rosa Parks 🙄 it was amusingly RSOH and all dissent was deleted as is typical of Reddit.

However someone did, perhaps genuinely, perhaps mischievously ask the question of whether people would be happy with more “trans women” in the league. They mostly fell back on “but it couldn’t happen” because the evil WCAA rules wouldn’t allow a “trans woman” to train and become a competent “female” basketball player. Which surely completely ignores that they might start as a male one, like Lia Thomas?

“Trans woman comedian”

in the dictionary under “oxymoron”

Edited to say - taken from the article above.

"The girls were wearing shirts from XX-XY Athletics, a company aiming to "protect women's sports,"

It's a company that's been around for a few years and the CEO Jennifer Sey is ready to make Sophie Cunningham the face of XX-XY Athletics

"....revealed that she first opened communication with Cunningham after XX-XY Athletics released its "Dear Nike" in October 2024. The ad challenged the sportswear giant to take a public stand against biological males competing in women’s sports, and generated more than 10 million views."

She is unafraid and honest. I love her - I’ve followed her all year on IG for her loyalty and skill on the basketball court - she’s incredible.

She knocks down a 3 and calls the crowd losers. God I love her.