No one ever feels “ready” to stand up for what’s right. The point is that we have to be brave enough to do it anyway.
Read my op-ed below on the incredible courage of @sophaller, and how each of us can find our own.
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If you don’t think he’s a woman, you’re transphobic. When he claimed to be a woman, he became a woman. He now belongs in women’s changing rooms, bathrooms, hospital wards, prison cells and rape support centres.
If you try and differentiate between him and a trans woman who looks more convincing as a woman, you are promoting patriarchal beauty norms. If you admit to seeing an aggressive and possibly unbalanced man in this video, you’re saying all trans people are mentally ill predators. If you refuse to let him into female-only spaces, you’re removing his right to exist. If you suggest he could comfortably use male facilities, you secretly want him assaulted. If you refuse to call him ‘she’, you are guilty of unpardonable cruelty. If you’re a woman who wouldn’t want to share a locker room with him, or a man who wouldn’t want your daughter, sister or mother to get undressed in close proximity to him, you belong to the far-right. If you point out that there is no objective difference between his claim to be a woman and that of any other biological male claiming a trans identity, you are too stupid to understand the circular arguments explaining why he’s not really trans whereas other men who say they’re women are really trans.
If you’re righteous, you must argue that this man’s self-declared identity overrides any consideration of the safety and rights of females. To be godly, you must agree he’s as ‘valid’ as every other trans woman, because people are who they say they are. No matter what your eyes, ears and common sense are telling you, if you don’t want to end up on the wrong side of history, you must pretend to believe that this angry, intimidating man is actually a vulnerable, oppressed woman.
"Sophie Night" is heading to another city as the WNBA becomes the next frontier for the "Save Women's Sports" movement.
After rallies in Seattle and Portland, XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey is organizing a rally outside the Indiana Fever's game in Minneapolis, saying support for Cunningham is growing after what she calls a positive turnout in Seattle.
"We just want to honor Sophie and thank her," Sey said. "It really is meaningful in this fight."
There’s only one athletic brand that takes a stand for the protection of women’s sports.
It’s not Nike.
It’s not Adidas.
It’s not Lululemon.
It’s @xx_xyathletics. From the jump. We put it all on the line.
If you’ve been curious about us, now’s the time.
Join us.
Amazing day at @ESPN yesterday…
- No, not Clark and other clowns being let go.. that was happening the second Clark lied about the Louisiana State Police!!
The AMAZING was an article written on a WHITE GIRL @sophaller saying men shouldn’t be in women’s sports!!!
WOW
I already loved Sophie Cunningham. Now I love her more.
“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."
https://t.co/WmE7HKzrFp
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