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Sophie Cunningham booed by Portland fans as trans athlete controversy continues
New York Post ^ | July 31, 2026 | Michael Blinn

Posted on 07/31/2026 11:11:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Fire fans didn’t offer a warm welcome to Sophie Cunningham.

The Indiana star was booed by fans during the Fever’s 112-98 win over the Fire at the Moda Center on Friday night in Portland as fallout over her comments regarding trans athletes continues.

Cunningham scored 13 points off the bench while Caitlin Clark scored a team-high 26 points.

Earlier this month, Cunningham made waves for saying she wants to “protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men” in an ESPN profile.

The discourse around the quote was amped up when a pair of young fans, wearing apparel from XX-XY Athletics and holding signs supporting the 29-year-old guard sitting courtside for a game in Seattle were allegedly called “****ing insane” by Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton.

One of the fans was reportedly left in tears following the encounter.

Keaton was suspended for five home games and fined an undisclosed amount by the WNBA.

“I think at the end of the day, I come in and I do my job,” Cunningham said before the Fever’s win. “I think everyone who knows me personally, they know that I’m full of love. I’m bubbly. I love the people around me. I love basketball. I love inspiring the next generation and doing that in a positive light. And so that doesn’t even cross my mind. Doesn’t cross my teammates’ minds.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; cunningham; protectgirlssports; sophie; sophiecunningham; xxxyathletics
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To: MinorityRepublican

Communists are not big on freedom of speech.


41 posted on 08/01/2026 6:53:17 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If I was Sophie, I’d watch my back. At the very least she could easily be ‘Nancy Kerriganed” by some wacko. Hell, one of the opposing players could do that with one dirty play. At the worst she could be really taken out by some crazed lunatic driven by hate. These trans crazies would see nothing wrong with killing her because she dissed them and stood up for normality.


42 posted on 08/01/2026 6:57:37 AM PDT by redangus
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To: redangus
At the very least she could easily be ‘Nancy Kerriganed” by some wacko.

Or "Rudy Tomjanoviched"


43 posted on 08/01/2026 6:59:53 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: AppyPappy

Regardless of how anyone feels about the basketball skills of Ms. Cunningham, everyone can agree she is right about protecting women.


44 posted on 08/01/2026 7:42:41 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem

The league of trannies, lesbians and thugs... Who watches this freak show???


45 posted on 08/01/2026 7:48:17 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen
“The league of trannies, lesbians and thugs... Who watches this freak show???”

I just saw a clip of Cunningham shoot a three-point shot. And another time I saw video of Clark making a shot.

So yes, I have seen two plays so far in life.

46 posted on 08/01/2026 7:55:05 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: AppyPappy

From X:

The whole point of the WNBA sports league for the spreaders of the woke mind virus is that it was created by radical feminists who then have been utilizing the league as a means of spreading the virus.  

The woke mind virus will use any host in its endless quest for total cultural domination. 

At the proper time, the woke mind virus unveiled its most gloried creation:  trans

Understand: The woke mind virus DOES NOT CARE about any of its hosts.

It is no respecter of persons. It uses them as long as they are useful; when they are not useful, the host will be discarded. 

Many blacks in America have already figured this out.  Many gays know this also.  

Now, as the Great American Golden Age is launching, and all the fake 'progress' the work mind virus was making culturally is being rolled back at lightening speed, the WNBA is caught and exposed: 

They used a 100% FAKE solidarity with women to lure them into this.  They **always** intended to betray women.  This was always their goal.  

The fatal problem they face right now is that they had ASSUMED they would be enacting their betrayal of women by promoting trans all across the cultural spectrum [especially in the American sports world] from a position of STRENGTH and DOMINANCE.  

The people behind the spread of the woke mind virus could never in a million years have envisioned just 3 years ago where they would be standing on the cultural battlefield for 'trans rights' in 2026: 

Most of their 'popular support' for the abandonment and subjugation of women to men with mental issues was ever and always illusory.

They never really held most of the cultural ground they claimed they did.  

So now we're treated to otherwise sane people in a captured ideological institution of a sports league forced to sit there on camera and gaslight and say absurd things.  

And yet they will continue saying absurd things to us. 

Either the WNBA ceases to be an ideologically captured institution being run by people in contravention to reality, or it will not survive.  

The handwriting is already on the wall. 

Ball is in your court, WNBA. You are not a victim. You will decide your own fate.


47 posted on 08/01/2026 8:04:02 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: MinorityRepublican
If a 30 year old gay man self identifies as a ten year old boy should be be allowed to play on a little league team and go on trips and 'shower' with the other 'boys'?

If not, why not?


48 posted on 08/01/2026 8:05:10 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Illegals are NOT immigrants anymore than thieves are house guests")
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To: No name given ; NoLibZone; sten; DAC21; doc maverick; ViLaLuz; Mashood; 55Ford; Vision; ...
If a 30 year old gay man self identifies as a ten year old boy should be be allowed to play on a little league team and go on trips and 'shower' with the other 'boys'?

If not, why not?


49 posted on 08/01/2026 8:11:34 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Illegals are NOT immigrants anymore than thieves are house guests")
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To: Bratch

From X:

Griner was supposed to come out eventually as trans. 

And the WNBA was all poised to celebrate that.  

You all know this, right? 

Two things ruined it.  

1. Caitlin Clark

2. Donald Trump getting reelected.

Oh, forgot one.

3. And the sudden rise of Sophie Cunningham.

50 posted on 08/01/2026 8:51:47 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: AppyPappy

what about brittany grier?

russians put “her” in a male prison


51 posted on 08/01/2026 9:36:16 AM PDT by joshua c (collectivism has many names but the result is the same; the state is primary, the citizen is a slave)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Portland. This is the city that overturned the Oregon Constitution’s definition of marriage by itself in court. So of course they want to advance Big Perversion’s latest move.


52 posted on 08/01/2026 10:24:44 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sophia and CC are awesome, only real reason to watch the games.


53 posted on 08/01/2026 10:39:15 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: GOPJ

what you describe is one of the freakshow.

when i say ignore them that means to stay away from them and do not allow them anywhere near anything you have influence over.

in other words, shun them.


54 posted on 08/01/2026 11:00:33 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: sten
Trust me - they WANT to be shunned.

Silence is their assistant. We need to call them out, mock them, copy their insanity so the press will start catching on to their butt boys tactics. Watch liberal pretentious men in the press - they tell their people NOT to talk about political issues - just to name call.

BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WORKS. Liberal elites figured out if they keep bringing up things like 'men who pretend they're women are women ' it'll bring out lots of people who want to 'see both sides' so they'll come half way. Then they keep moving the goalposts.

That's how its' done - it's how massive culture changes have been make the last 20 years. THEY want to bombard us with insan positions and then tell us to 'be above it all'. We need OUR insane positions, not the ones they try to define us with.

Of course they tell their gullible sheep what to do .. to NOT talk about the issues because they're too small to effect change... to just name call.

Where do you think all the crap about calling Trump 'Hitler' came from? They don't want to talk about Trump's policies or what Musk has achieved for mankind - they want to name-call keep it at the 'stupid level'.

So unless you're working for commie democrats, YOU don't want to give that 'go silent' advice to our side

55 posted on 08/01/2026 11:30:10 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Illegals are NOT immigrants anymore than thieves are house guests")
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To: GOPJ

giving them the press spreads it to those who’ve never heard about their bs.

that’s why they’re put in all media.

the goal is to project it as ‘normal’


56 posted on 08/01/2026 12:02:28 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

They used a sperm donor. She was placed with women in prison. https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/40071460/brittney-griner-wnba-phoenix-mercury-russia-detained-released-memoir


57 posted on 08/01/2026 1:19:28 PM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: GOPJ

Good point!


58 posted on 08/01/2026 1:26:57 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: doc maverick

Thanks


59 posted on 08/01/2026 7:32:51 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Illegals are NOT immigrants anymore than thieves are house guests")
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To: sten
If a 30 year old gay man self identifies as a ten year old boy should be be allowed to play on a little league team and go on trips and 'shower' with the other 'boys'?

If not, why not?

Spread this around. Ask people.

60 posted on 08/01/2026 7:36:17 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Illegals are NOT immigrants anymore than thieves are house guests")
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