The Threats Against Sophie Cunningham Have Begun

Sophie Cunningham is the face that launched a thousand memes.

The WNBA star recently burst onto the national scene with finger-pointing swagger.

NGL, Sophie Cunningham had me at the pointy finger. The fact she is standing up for women's and girls' sports is just the cherry on top. pic.twitter.com/bacejUuRBe
— Aja ♀️🇬🇧 (@AjaTheEmpress) July 23, 2026

Now, much like Caitlin Clark before her, Woke Media considers her to be a threat.

You see, she doesn’t subscribe to the left's talking points about boys invading girls' sports.

Cunningham spoke out about the “transgender problem” that is impacting girls' sports around the country.

In a world full of Megan Rapinoes, be a Sophie Cunningham pic.twitter.com/PvL8X0Y8h1
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) July 22, 2026

In an interview with ESPN, she said the following:

"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."
"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."

Then, after her non-conformity to Woke dogma drew howls, she doubled down.

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

"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 swished both takes like a pair of free throws.

But the memo went out: Bend the knee or be destroyed.

FTW (For the Whiners) put out the hit.

Sophie Cunningham must use caution in trans sports debate | Opinion https://t.co/jiGICWsCpH

📸 Trevor Ruszkowski, IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect pic.twitter.com/1aXKwD32Kn
— For The Win (@ForTheWin) July 24, 2026

“Sophie Cunningham must use caution in trans sports debate,” it ominously proclaimed.

The Machine Has Spoken. WrongThink is not allowed.

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So, the message was sent to Cunningham. It went like this:

Unlike some who go as far as to question trans identity altogether, Cunningham's words are siloed into sports, which makes them incredibly polarizing within the league she plays, but mostly palatable in general conversation with America's pulse on the issue. […]
Cunningham's sentiments are widely held in the United States, yes, but they come at a time when, as NBA commissioner Adam Silver recently observed, her superstar teammate Caitlin Clark has turned into a "political football" for ongoing culture wars. Clark is a lightning rod for discourse, particularly on race, given her presence as a prominent white woman gaining intense popularity in a league largely built by Black women.

You see? If you don’t get on board with the left’s radical agenda now, we will make you surrender. Just like we did with Caitlin Clark.

Clark humiliatingly confessed after a struggle session that she definitely has “privilege” and she stands on the shoulders of black women.

"I definitely have privilege. I’m obviously White but I think … I’m somebody that grew up a huge fan of this league. I grew up watching this league, going to games, supporting this league. So, I know where this league comes from.”
"A lot of Black women that grew up making this league what it is. That’s kind of the shoulders that we stand on. So, I think that was something I’m very aware of and something I’m very thankful for. And they definitely deserve all the credit and the more we can give credit to them, the better. I’m very aware of that and I know that and I think there is responsibility in acknowledging that."

Insipid mewling. No one says “white people built basketball” because Dr. James Naismith invented the game and white players predominated in the professional sport before it allowed black players.

And it isn’t “white privilege” when you are a minority in a black player-dominated sports league and you have to work your behind off to compete.

It’s the results that matter: The basketball hoop is color blind.

Radical killjoys, however, are not colorblind; they favor a racist form of revenge called “equity.”

Clark’s apology therefore didn’t stop the Woke mob from savaging her in one of the most insane pieces ever sent out into the transom.

The thrust of the piece: Caitlin Clark’s admirers might actually start lynching black people due to her… foul-baiting. Seriously.

It seems there is a white nationalist faction to Clark’s fandom that is deeply, deeply problematic, made even more so because the WNBA is made up predominantly of Black women, many of them queer. When Clark claims fouls that don’t exist, when she goes on profanity-laced tirades at referees, those racists see her as a white woman in need of saving and take matters into their own hands. [...]
It shouldn’t need reminding this country has an awful history of Black people being harmed, even killed, in the name of “defending” white women. The irony of the WNBA's All-Star Game is that it's happening this weekend in Chicago, the hometown of Emmett Till, who became an icon of the civil rights movement after his tragic murder.

Lunacy.

But this is to be expected when sports stand as a repudiation of the leftist worldview. Competition inspires individual excellence. Teams invite diversity without the need for coercion. Scores reward merit, not victimhood.

Sophie Cunningham, and Caitlin Clark before her, are targeted because they are cultural icons who defy left-wing stereotypes, and frankly, don't have any need for the radical left.

Their popularity, driven by merit, is thus misleadingly ascribed to racial resentment; never mind that the biggest NBA superstars in America have tended to be black, rather than white.

Michael Jordan is the ultimate example of a player whose rise to superstardom was unprecedented, yet he also realized, “Republicans buy sneakers, too.” Be Like Mike.

There is also a saying ‘those who do not make you cannot break you.’ The Woke sports media is once again putting that truism to the test. In the process, it will burn its last shred of credibility to the ground.

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