Originally published at: The Right Has Found Its New Riley Gaines in the WNBA - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The right-wing media machine is salivating over its newest anti-trans storyline, served up by Sophie Cunningham, a guard on the WNBA’s Indiana Fever. Cunningham, long nicknamed “MAGA barbie” by W fans, has 3 million followers on TikTok and a predilection for reposting content starkly to the right of the famously progressive, activist league (she says…
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Shouldn’t she be squirting out white babies full time?
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Remind me again exactly how many males have transitioned just to play sports on a different team? Anyone who’s seen a friend or family member go through transition knows how ridiculous that is. Is it a particularly right-wing American delusion that sports are so important that someone would go through years of chemical and surgical interventions just to play?
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And give us specific examples of where this is actually happening.
This is a solution in search of a problem, but boy, do the minions get hepped up about it.
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If there is one thing that the reich wing can’t resist, it is a loudmouthed idiot who confirms their biases. Sophie Cunningham sure as hell is that. She’s a solidly middling basketball player who has probably never played with or against a trans woman, hell she’s probably never even met a trans woman.
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Riley Gaines was a swimmer before she started ostentatiously squiriting out white babies.
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Sorry. Mixed up the loudmouthed, mediocre athlete white women. I meant to remark on Sophie Cunningham, not Riley Gaines. In my defense, they are fairly fungible.
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What is “The W”?
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Short for WNBA, I think. It made me wonder what George Bush has to do with it…lol
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Who bought the court side seats for them?
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The right has glommed onto the WNBA for its culture war battles
Drag it into politics. The purpose is to tear down a successful, esp financially successful, female activity by cheapening and weaponizing it. Women’s sport more popular than men’s? Can’t be allowed.
having posed for Sports Illustrated and performing as a ring girl
An essential feature for right-wing attention, followed by right-wing support. Girls in skimpy clothing. Forget brains. Keep the guys lookin’.
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“I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”
And that’s why I’m making common cause with a political party and movement infested with pedophiles and violent domestic abusers who see women and girls as possessions and women’s sports as a bunch of lesbians stealing money from men’s sports programs.
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"A rally was planned before the Fever’s game in Seattle on Tuesday to ‘support’ Cunningham and two ballot initiatives that would bar trans girls in Washington state elementary and middle schools from playing on girls’ sports teams. The event reportedly drew only a couple dozen participants. "
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the mostly Black, prominently gay league is considered a safe environment for its many LGBTQ+ fans and each team celebrates pride nights.
And that’s what it will always be. Plus, it will never be profitable on its own w/o Clark and NBA funding. Sophie’s got it right.
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tx, humans have a 9 month pregnancy. Just thought I’d mention that. I guess that’s why you didn’t become a doctor. /s
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Thank goodness we can keep all three of those “women” out of real women’s sports! WTF is wrong with these people? They just can’t abide the thought of someone not meeting society’s “norms” of behavior. And quite frankly, what two people do in the privacy of their bedroom is really none of my business. Nor is telling people what gender they should hew to. Stop interfering with other people’s private concerns!!
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She needs to find a sperm implanter for that. Does not appear to be in a relationship…
Because in the minds of most people, this is not an issue. Cunningham should just stfu. She’s just baiting the haters
(imho)
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There’s always artificial insemination.
Who finished tied for 5th in the race that made her infamous. She should have swum faster.
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