WNBA Star Sophie Cunningham Comes Out in Favor of PROTECTING Women's Sports

There's drama, you'll be shocked to learn, in the WNBA today on multiple fronts. I mean, these women, they cannot keep their ---- together. It's actually quite amazing to watch. There's a new controversy involving race or sexuality or the trans thing pretty much every other week. Now, this is kind of a good one, the one we're starting with first. The Sophie Cunningham has spoken out against men playing in women's sports. And I have to say, first of all, obviously good for her. But this is on the heels of somebody I don't like at all politically, but I have nothing against personally, Martina Navratilova helping lead the way in women's tennis to keep men out of women's tennis. I completely applaud her on this. She got out there and made comments a couple years ago against men and women's tennis, and she got her hand slapped. And she kind of took it back initially. And then she came around on this issue. I think she realized, why am I letting people slap my hand on this? I'm a world champion, 10, 15 times over. I have a right to my opinion, and this is what I think. And she's been very fearless on it ever since. So while we've sparred politically many times, she and I, I completely applaud her on this unreservedly. And she has led to the rule being changed in women's tennis that will not allow men to play against women. So hurrah, good for her. Perhaps inspired by that, I can't prove it, but perhaps Sophie Cunningham, who is one of the stars in women's basketball, best known recently for the pointing beam, which went everywhere. It was so good. She's decided, I think she's feeling, sowing her oats, whatever. She's always pretty fearless. She's pretty bold. But she has decided to speak out against men in women's basketball, saying, I don't think it's men in women's sports. And given the chance to take it back, here's what she said just yesterday, SOT1. On that same vein and that story with ESPN, you talked about wanting to protect young girls who shouldn't have to go against biological men. Just can you expand your viewpoint on that? I mean, I think I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense. And I think I'll always believe in that. I think it's really important to protect children. And that's little girls who are also involved in that category. And so I stand on what I said. And I always believe that. Do you see your advocacy on that, like taking any form going forward? I don't know. I didn't. I'm not a very political person, but I do have beliefs. I have morals and I'll always stand on those and be true to who I am. And I think people are going to take it how they want to take it. But I've never even really said anything about that. And so when it comes just to protecting young girls in sport and women in sport, I feel very strongly about that. I think that's why you have Title nine. That's why you have some of the greats in women's sports. If Title nine and women's sports were protected, then you wouldn't hear about any type of women in sport. And so I think in the future, it's just really important to protect. I actually think this is a huge moment, like good for her. She's not Martina. She's in the game right now. She's not retired. She doesn't have all the money and accolades and the sort of lifetime revered status in her sport that Martina Navarro has in tennis. And so it's riskier for her. And she's the only one doing it. I mean, truly, no one else is doing it. I can't think of another person who's doing it. It's certainly not in the WNBA, but really in women's like professional sports right now, who is speaking out on behalf of the little girls who are getting hurt by boys playing in their sports? The biggest name that comes to mind is Megan Rapinoe, who's on the other side and just doubled down on her nonsense and inanity this week on The View on Tuesday. That's like women are not the women speaking out on this are women who are not currently in the game. You know, Megan, obviously, Riley Gaines got very active in this after she left college where she was a college swimmer. But like, it's very rare to see somebody like Sophie Cunningham in the game making money as a headliner right now, come out and say this is wrong. And then standing by it when asked after, of course, she must have been deluged with accusations. She was transphobe between then and now. And she stood by it and sort of said, I'm not political. This just makes common sense, which is just so great to hear, Emily. It's like, of course, you hear it said and you're like, of course, for the first time since World War Two, our national debt has exceeded the gross domestic product. America's reckless government spending keeps catching up with us. Higher inflation, higher prices, higher cost of living expenses and higher interest payments on the national debt. 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They say standing up for people who identify as trans is the new civil rights issue of our time. But as you were describing, your sex is an immutable characteristic, like your race. And that is exactly why the early, or I should say, the sort of second wave feminist movement fought for, as a civil right, things like Title IX, which said on the basis of sex. The Obama administration then read gender identity into that, which totally diluted the civil rights protection of basis of sex. Those words were totally diluted by the cultural left. And so when they say that they're not doing anything political, they're just standing up for human rights or civil rights in defense of men playing in women's sports. It's actually the people like Sophie Cunningham, who they try to smear as MAGA bigots, who are the ones standing up for the explicit civil rights that second wave feminists fought for, civil rights protections, including Title IX, including same-sex spaces. And I mean, I was just talking to Jen Seh of XXXY Athletics a couple weeks ago, and I hadn't realized until I was talking to her that not one major current female athlete playing right now had done what Sophie Cunningham just did in the last couple of days. I did not realize that. It's so out of whack with public opinion, and it speaks to the pressure. We've had some great women speak out in women's cycling, women's weightlifting. At the high school level, we've seen it in track and field. But in terms of names in professional women's sports, no one's coming to mind. Forgive me if there's somebody out there I'm missing right now, but we've been begging. I mean, I was recently at a Jennifer Seh event with Chloe Cole and many others on this issue, begging somebody to speak out. We were saying at that event, maybe Serena and Venus will, because they've got that same exalted status in tennis. No, it took Martina to do it. But who will do it for their sport? And this gal, she's right at the apex of her sport right now. She does have a lot to lose. And she's pretty damn fearless, this Sophie Cunningham. It's actually kind of interesting, because to me, it's on brand for her. Not that I follow the WNBA, but I do know that she prizes herself on looking out for others. And that includes Caitlin Clark, who she's gotten very ticked off watching Caitlin Clark get fouled over and over and over again, and the refs never call it. And she's spoken to that. Here she is. This is from June 26th, so a month ago, Sat.3. During real time last night, I did not see that happen. None of our team saw it happen, because I promise you, if we would have seen that happen, we would have had her back. Unfortunately, this type of ---- happens every single game to her, and the league and the refs do absolutely nothing about it. It's been a minute since you got fined on this podcast. I have, but then you see the videos of literally kneeing and cheap-shotting C in the throat. If she did that to any of our teammates, we'd be pissed. But they're definitely targeting her, and the league and the refs do nothing to protect her. This is amazing. Good for her. People within the WNBA, you're not allowed to say that, Emily. If you stick up for Katelyn Clark, they'll call you a white supremacist. But this girl with the finger and the pointing does not give an F what these people are saying about her. Or if she does, she overcomes it with courage, and I admire her. Yeah, they call her MAGA Barbie. Obviously, as a pejorative, she just gets completely smeared. When the entire country can step back and watch what happens to Katelyn Clark, it's legitimately dangerous. There's no question that it's legitimately dangerous. It also obviously puts the referees in a tough position, where they are now litigating race relations with their calls on the court. That doesn't make anybody, anybody safer. It's really sad to see. And I mean, Sophie Cunningham is actually totally unafraid to come out. You can tell. She's saying there, I don't care if I get fined, basically. She's like, it's genuinely dangerous. And the WNBA fandom, honestly, is small, and it's ideologically captured. Not everybody who watches WNBA is far left, but that's the case with the WNBA audience generally. And it has really created a dangerous situation where they can't celebrate. One of the best people to ever play the game, Katelyn Clark, who's bringing new people into the sport, who is exciting audiences, and who's just putting on great games because they're obsessed with this idea that there's some deep-seated racial discrepancy with the she's treated versus the way other players are treated. Here's one of the reasons why it's so important. In basketball in particular, girls' basketball, we have seen males play. And think of that. I mean, it's not like track and field, where it's galling and it's unfair, but it's not unsafe to have somebody do the long jump next to you who's a boy. But in basketball, like volleyball, it's unsafe. Like boxing, by the way. And even at the Olympic level, we saw those women try to do the XX and then immediately reverse themselves because they got the pile on of the people saying, shame, shame, you're a bigot. And they folded. But Sophie Cunningham does not seem like the type to fold. And so far, she's not folding. But we pulled the video of some of these high school matches, games, in which girls got brutalized by this six-foot tall guy posing as a woman. It's happened over and over. And it's incredibly aggravating because look at this. He whips her. She falls to the ground. This one game, I think they had five female players get hurt. And they had to stop the game. So this has happened. Look at this girl. She needed Sophie Cunningham. She needed Sophie Cunningham. No one would stand up for her. Look, it's obvious which one is the man walking around towering over these women and hurting them. It's just incredibly frustrating and infuriating. And it was about time we had Sophie Cunningham come along and lead the way. The question now, will anyone else follow? But join the community by becoming a subscriber. We really, really value your input and your support. We may not always agree, but we are always going to talk about it and respect. No BS, no agenda, no fear.