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Agreeing with Sophie Cunningham's stance doesn't make you transphobic

Matt Calkins Substack (the spiked column, primary) · back to the audit

Agreeing with Sophie Cunningham's stance doesn't make you transphobic

Some of us are way too quick to throw labels around on a sensitive subject

Some people saw bigotry. I saw bravery.

About 90 minutes before the Storm played the Fever last Tuesday, 16-year-old Ahnaleigh Wilson stood at a rally outside Climate Pledge Arena wearing an XX-XY Athletics shirt while holding a sign reading 'Thank You Sophie For Speaking Up For Girls!'

There were no slurs hurled. No malice detected. It was just Wilson, an Eastmont High student in East Wenatchee, demonstrating what some have trouble accepting: that agreeing with Cunningham's position does not make you transphobic.

"I don't hate trans people and I have nothing against them... I just think that girls should have their own sports."

Such attacks are what Tumwater High student Frances Staudt says she endures every day at school. Two Marches ago, Staudt refused to play basketball against a biological male from Shelton for fear of being injured. She added that the biological male's presence in her locker room made her feel uncomfortable.