Is the WNBA About to Become the Next Front in the Trans Sports War?

It's a shame the nation's highest court had to settle something this obvious. But I strongly believe that the pendulum has been swinging back toward sanity for a while now. Albeit slowly. Most Americans have rejected the insanity of pretending men can become women by saying so. But there's a small, vocal minority still fighting this, and they're going down swinging.

That’s where Sophie Cunningham comes in. The WNBA player (who became a viral sensation for an aggressive, finger-pointing gesture on the court, which made her a target of scrutiny, because obviously the white girl should know her place in the WNBA) is now getting flak for comments she made on the transgender problem plaguing girls' sports nationwide in an interview with ESPN.

"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that.' 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," Cunningham told ESPN.

She was also careful to note she isn't picking a partisan side. "I'm very much in the middle. I agree with things on both sides, disagree with things on both sides. And that's all I've ever said about my political beliefs. But people love to assume," she said.

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Rather than retreat once the criticism hit, Cunningham dug in. "I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense… I think it's really important to protect children... I don't dislike anyone. … I'm there to love, but I'm also there to love biological women…" she said.

Sophie Cunningham responds to criticism over her recent comments to ESPN about wanting to protect women's sports from "biological men."

"I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense.

When it comes just to protecting young girls in sport and women in sport, I feel very… pic.twitter.com/2uh0MWj8zM

— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) July 23, 2026

From where I sit, and where most people do, she said nothing wrong. But, the media has virtue signal, and boy have they. For example, is FTW, which part of USA Today, responded with a piece warning that "Sophie Cunningham must use caution in trans sports debate."

Wow.

And the funny thing is, even FTW admitted her comments are widely shared among the American public, though apparently divisive inside the WNBA itself. Now, of course, the WNBA is professional sports, not collegiate, and Title IX isn’t applicable there. But something tells me that in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling last month, the WNBA is about to become the next magnet for trans-identifying male athletes looking for a league that hasn't drawn the same line yet.

You can almost hear the sob stories of “trans women” who were “denied” the opportunity play on the team aligning with their “gender identity,” and suddenly, the league that was started for women will suddenly let men play on it. And then we know how it goes, because we’ve seen it in collegiate competition: the male players cosplaying as women will dominate, break records, and get all the attention. But will the same people who hated on Caitlin Clark for being white and straight take issue with men taking over their league?

Somehow, I doubt it.