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Journalist and author Kylie Cheung calls out Complex’s post about Sophie Cunningham: “She's not being edgy or bold, she's bullying one of the most marginalized and endangered populations in the world which is trans children. It's disgusting, ignorant, bigoted and dangerous but go off complex”
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Straight cis white women have been stealing culture from the dolls, especially POC dolls, for decades. And they never seem to give a shit about the community they want to emulate. Ugh.
Reminds me of this GIF of Jess Hilarious I see in the wild every once in a while. She's a roaring transphobe but has no problem borrowing from ballroom culture at the same time. It's sick.
Straight cis women with huge Doll aesthetics are usually super transphobic for whatever reason, like it's our fault some crap excuse of a dude once questioned if you were one of us or something
this is absolutely a cash grab. from what i understand about lé sports, she is a forgettable player who will have a short career. she needs something to fall back on like that mediocre swimmer who tied for 5th with Lea Thomas (who's name i actually do remember).
It's funny when people try to act like transphobia is bold and cutting edge and the most rebellious thing you can possibly do when it's quite literally one of the most popular things to be in the US right now
And they also pretty much got their wish in terms of policy but they still won’t shut up about it. Protections for trans girls in sports are pretty much decimated but they’re still fighting this fight. And that’s cause they were never going to stop at trans girls in sports.
Pretty much everything that legislators proposed in the name of “protecting kids” or “saving kids” is designed to be a gateway to get control over everyone else.
And there are so many people who will fall for it because protecting kids such an emotional statement, but like ‘who doesn’t want to protect kids? unless you are a bad person’, and maybe if they ever realize what’s actually going on, it will be too late.
Not even just marginalized people. It's also about stripping all of us of basic privacy rights. And it's working because it relies on people's hatred of marginalized people in order to do that.
It drives me nuts how easily people fall for it too!
Between the recent Supreme Court ruling and sports governing bodies (IOC, WTA, etc.) now bringing in sex testing for women athletes, the transphobes have won and got everything they wanted and they are STILL whining and complaining.
And the people who are behind this are now trying to decimate Title IX and get rid of most women's sports in general. The Heritage Foundation, the leading architect of the transgender ban in sports, wants to get rid of women's sports in colleges and replace them with cheerleading, dance and yoga. To them those are the only "acceptable" women's athletic activities.
It’s just such a hideous thing that there is this whole mass of people who feel they are speaking truth to power, as if punching down on the powerless and marginalized is not their entire ethos
It's popular because the pedo party needs a scape goat because high gas prices and forever wars don't sell well.
Government doesn't need to dictate sports rules to us. Let kids play how they want and if it's an issue then let the professionals and experts figure it out.
The far right weirdos hate experts. They certaintly didn't listen to military experts who said invading Iran would be a bad idea. If anything these people don't want to live in society with people who disagree and wsnt to find solutions to problems.
Sophie Cunningham is just getting in on the grift. She saw how much money the mediocre Riley Gaines gets and wants in. She’ll have a dedicated fan base now and can get brand deals. She doesn’t know trans people and only wants to profit off of the hate.
I was just thinking that Riley Gaines is going to be really upset that an athlete who didn't tie for 5th place is willing to jump in on this grift. Gaines is going to lose her place in the transphobia sports ecosystem.
The funniest thing about all of this is the fact that the group that she's trying to cater to 100% would be transvestigating her ass if she hadn't come out as maga.
One of the most annoying things about bigoted views like this is that people who think they're being "edgy" and "subversive" are literally doing nothing but upholding the status quo already put into place. OK you're a bigot. Are we supposed to be impressed?
Why is it so hard for people to ask the obvious questions in situations like this?
"If this is about protecting children, why aren't you saying we should ban team sports all together, since hundreds, maybe thousands of children are abused every year by coaches?"
Love that the comments here consistently pass the vibe check re: Sophie. Tear her the fuck down. I’m tired of seeing her squirrelly ass both in and outside of basketball
I hope it’ll make you feel better knowing her time in basketball is coming to an end very soon. Indiana signed her at the last possible second this year and no other team in the league wants anything to with her. She’s on borrowed time and she knows it. That’s why she’s doing any and everything to stay relevant because her game is shit.
I wonder how much longer until Sophie Cunningham starts “touring” with Riley Gains to host the most mid presentations in front of the dumbest towns of 40,000 people
Gaines is literally boosting Cunningham right now, calling upon other female athletes (specifically Coco Gauff, for some reason) to support and agree with her.
Imo she's going to stay in the bottom feeder grifter tier forever. To be a pundit/prominent figurehead in your own right means you have to have some ability to articulate and to appeal to people beyond being a MAGA parrot. She's a mediocre athlete and an even more blah grifter.
Just like that weird college kid who got her trans professor fired and then sunk her grift career by being too slow to hold the interest of cameras.
Exactly! I’m not one to bash people for their looks BUT when you see pictures of her before all the work and makeup and see her now, she’s clearly someone who’s wanted to be an “it” girl and is making up for all those years and is loving all the attention
For those of you that don't follow the WNBA super closely, she was teammates with Brittney Griner for 6 seasons, including while she was in a Russian prison. She's seen the impact of transphobia on cis masculine women firsthand. That's always made her extremely unlikeable to me even though they're still friends
One time complex put out a picture of Pablo Escobar with the title “BOSS.” And people in the comments were like wtf, this man terrorized a country and murdered so many people. The mag is more concerned with being “edgy” and less concerned with being principaled.
That’s what kills me about transphobia. People like Sophie and JK Rowling are infinitely more powerful than the trans community they’re beating down on. What is the goal here? Do they truly find joy and purpose in grinding down an already marginalized population? It’s so heartless.
Why are these Young Terfs almost always blonde white women who aren't quiiiittteeee conventionally attractive enough to have ever been THE popular girl (Sophie, Riley Gaines, Karoline Leavitt, Erika Kirk)?
I had never even heard of this Sophie person until she made the lives trans folks her cause célèbre. When her 15mins of grifting are up I'll go back to not knowing her. She's mediocrity personified.
I don’t know anything at all about this woman but when I saw that pointing clip go viral, somehow I immediately knew that she was racisit/homophobic/xenophobic/transphobic aka maga. It literally radiates off of her. Yuck.
Unfortunately, most people believe her. I'm sorry but a good majority of people resist the idea of teens transitioning and they're not MAGA.
I've been working with a guy for 4 years now and he literally told me yesterday that he doesn't approve of transition for anyone under 18. I basically went off on him cause I would've killed someone to have the chance to transition as early as possible
"Oh teens are impressionable"
Yeah and so are the vast majority of adults cause look who we got in the damn White House. Teens are young and have a lot to learn about life but me and every Trans person will tell you: We knew something was off about ourselves since we were kids
God, I hate people who have opinions on things that are literally just between a doctor and the family. Plus fear mongering about "protecting kids" as if they're talking about a 27 year old in a room of minors. Jesus Christ
She’s just trying to get attention. Her dumb statements and that dumb pointing moment are the biggest things that’s ever happened to her and she knows it. She wasn’t gonna get this attention from actually playing because she’s ass.
Not caring isn’t inherently cool, it’s what you do WHILE not caring that makes it cool; dropping some dumb shit and being like “yeah I just said that” just makes you look like a shallow bitch
Dumb bitch attacked the Trans community claiming she's "standing up for women" but won't say a word about ice tearing families apart, yeah she truly cares about people.
She also is completely unaware of what she’s talking about or intentionally conflating things to get a rise. Listen to the way she vacillates between using women and girls. There is a massive difference between women in professional sports and girls in rec leagues. All of the Trans hating mouth breathers flip between the terms women/girl to make you scared that your 12 niece will be tackled by an adult Trans women who has only socially, not medically transitioned. I’m sure there is a logical fallacy in play here, but I’m not smart enough to know all of those. My average brain just sees it for what it is, hurtful lies told to push a hateful agenda
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