{"id":139932,"date":"2026-07-21T20:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/sophie-cunningham-speaks-out-on-protecting-girls-from-competing-against-biological-men-139932"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:10:42","slug":"sophie-cunningham-speaks-out-on-protecting-girls-from-competing-against-biological-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/sophie-cunningham-speaks-out-on-protecting-girls-from-competing-against-biological-men-139932","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham speaks out on protecting girls from competing against &#8216;biological men&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/wnba\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA star<\/a> Sophie Cunningham has made her position on protecting women&#8217;s sports clear.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/49306657\/sophie-cunningham-finger-point-indiana-fever-wnba\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN interview<\/a>, the fan-favorite Caitlin Clark teammate addressed the issue for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/supreme-court-makes-ruling-trans-athletes-womens-sports#&amp;_intcmp=fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SUPREME COURT MAKES RULING ON TRANS ATHLETES IN WOMEN&#8217;S SPORTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I never once said that,'&#8221; Cunningham said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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&#8217;t have to go against biological men.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very much in the middle. I agree with things on both sides, disagree with things on both sides. And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve ever said about my political beliefs. But people love to assume.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.podtrac.com\/dmwdd_article\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON&#8217;T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cunningham previously garnered backlash from the left in March 2022 after re-sharing a tweet from CBS Sports host Josh Pate about the controversy surrounding former Penn transgender swimmer <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/sports\/wnba-player-faces-backlash-op-ed-criticizing-ioc-policy-protect-womens-sports\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lia Thomas competing<\/a> on the women&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Female collegiate athletes deserve so much better than this,&#8221; Pate\u2019s tweet said.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham faced so much backlash over the re-share that she released a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To my teammates, friends, family, supporters and fans, you know that I stand with all people, especially my fellow athletes. I do not judge, but support all races, religions, sexual preferences and gender equity. We all have a place in this world to compete and I hope we are able to grant everyone that opportunity fairly.&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham has emerged as one of the biggest stars in the WNBA over the last year, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/republicans\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">among conservatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Gaines, who infamously tied with Thomas at the <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/ncaa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2022 NCAA women&#8217;s<\/a> swimming championships, told Fox News Digital on the last day of June, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold state laws that keep biological males out of women&#8217;s sports, that she hoped the ruling would be a &#8220;clarion call&#8221; for athletes like Cunningham to speak out in support of protecting women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let this be a clarion call, not just to Simone, but to every, I think especially elite female athlete, professional female athlete, the likes of Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham, Serena Williams, to link arms,&#8221; Gaines said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/sophie-cunningham-speaks-protecting-girls-competing-biological-men\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-sports\/sophie-cunningham-speaks-protecting-girls-competing-biological-men <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA star Sophie Cunningham has made her position on protecting women&#8217;s sports clear. 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