"A transgender girl stretched for a high school race as supporters of a new anti-trans ballot measure chanted 'enough is enough'."I saw it six days earlier in a Guardian headline about how doctors are fighting an "anti-trans measure" that would separate biological girls from boys in women's sports.The Portland Mercury got in on it, too, writing in its Monday headline how "anti-trans activists" attempted to overshadow the Thorns' playoff-clinching win.These aren't columnists offering subjective opinions.These are media outlets writing opinions as fact.The message? You can't possibly be a women's sports advocate without being transphobic.
And that thought is just ...tired.WOMEN WHO FACED BIOLOGICAL MALES IN GIRLS' SPORTS AND LOCKER ROOMS SPEAK OUT AHEAD OF WASHINGTON STATE VOTE(From left to right) Female athletes Frances Staudt, Bailey Andersen, Sadie Sullivan, Kendall Kotzmacher and Alanna Smith stand behind emcee and podcast host Brandi Kruse at a Protecting Fairness in Girls' Sports rally in Vancouver, Washington.
(Derek Shook for OutKick)I have no doubt there are people who have genuine scorn for members of the trans community.Every group — men, women, Whites, Blacks, gays, Muslims, Jews.
etc.— has its haters.But the voices backing these ballot measures? The figures advocating for girls' and women's spaces? They aren't demonizing trans people.
Not in the slightest.Perhaps the most famous face to speak up on this issue in the past few months is Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, who said in an ESPN interview: "I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."But she prefaced that very sentence by saying "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."Defenders of female sports categories gather in front of the U.S.
Supreme Court as they wait for rulings on June 30, 2026, in Washington, D.C.The S...