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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Okay, I'm annoyed, like seriously annoyed, and I don't really
get that annoyed that often. I mean, I get shocked
and I'm appalled frequently by the state of the world.
But this has really pick me off. WNBA coach wears

(00:28):
trans Kids Belong shirt to game against Sophie Cunningham. Minnesota
Link's coach, Cheryl Reeves sends a message from the sideline
wearing a trans Kids Belong shirt during Sunday's matchup with
Sophie Cunningham and the Indiana Fever. Okay, there were protests outside,

(00:51):
Sophie is being booed when she runs onto the court.
Can we be brutally honest here, and let's be honest.
That's really all I know. I'm not a big filter
person unless it's the Paris one on Instagram, and I've
had well not a lot of sleep, but that aside,
this is their playbook. This coach wears a trans Kids

(01:20):
Belong shirt and by the way, absolutely great love that.
Sophie Cunningham, though, doesn't need to be told that because
she's never said anything even remotely resembling that. And this
is what they do. They do it for everything, for everything,

(01:42):
It's the same as boy George doing a song saying
we will dance again for the kids shot at a
music festival, and all of a sudden he is a
genocide supporter. No, but they come out with George, screw
you for someting genocide. Cancel him. He doesn't. It's the

(02:04):
same thing here. Sophie Cunningham has said that males, biological
males do not belong in women's sports. That's it. That
is the rational, same commonly shared stance. It's a safety issue,

(02:25):
it's a fairness issue. It's not an anti trans kids campaign.
But this coach saying, oh trans kids are well, this
is what they do. They the straw man argument. She
is trying to say that Sophie is against trans kids
and she's excluding them and this is evil. No, it's

(02:46):
so dumb, it's so evil, it's so calculated, and this
is how they silence people. See, I would not care
less if it was me. I'm so battle hardened in
this space whatever. But people like Sophie, this will rattle
her because the thought of her doing something that hurts
kids would make her feel sick like most of us,

(03:07):
and she will now be terrified that this is how
it's been framed. She will step back, she will stop
doing the most powerful thing she was doing, which is
speaking common sense. And this is how they win. That
T shirt is BS. Sophie never ever ever attacked trans kids.

(03:27):
You know, trans kids deserve all the love in the world.
They deserve a lot of help. They need help, they
need support. Okay, but it's like any child, you can't
always do and be in everything. Just like when I
was like I couldn't play in the boys' soccer team.
That wasn't me being excluded in this horrific campaign of hate. No,

(03:51):
it was just the reality of the situation for reasons,
like I said, safety and equality, fairness in sport. And
you know what, it's just the way it is. This
T shirt and revving up the crowd and getting all
these people on board to now attack Sophie will mean
that every other person who was thinking of saying something
that is so rational, normal, simple, but that might need

(04:16):
to be said in an environment that has gone BACKBEP
crazy won't do it because they'll be terrified that they'll
be painted as some kind of anti trans children campaigner.
It's BS. This T shirt is BS, and it annoys me.
Because I see it every day in every space you
see it. You speak out against something, it gets framed

(04:39):
as something completely different to get the masses on board
who are too lazy to actually look at what the
issue is. So people who are not following this, or
who just look at headlines and go ah, see this
and go oh, that's not nice, why would Sophie be
trying to exclude like sorry, it's so dumb. It's a

(05:00):
straw man argument. What Sophie Cunningham has said and done
has not, in any way, shape or form, attacked trans kids.
This framing of it, though, is the way they silence
her and stop her and try and stop everyone else
who thinks, oh, I might speak up because I believe

(05:21):
that too. It's common sense anyway that needs to be
called out. And it's actually just really unfair. It's really
unfair on Sophie Cunningham, really unfair. Now let's go another

(05:44):
decade where normal rational people won't say a word because
if they do, and it's the same as if you
say something about Islamic extremism you get called islamophobic. Or
if you say, hey, I think everyone deserves a need opportunity.
I don't want dei you get called a racist, or

(06:05):
if you say, hey, I reckon that Israelis and Jews
don't deserve to be stabbed in the streets of New
York City, you get called, well, a genocidal maniac, like
it's so obvious to me, but it's not to the masses.
And that is the problem with this. So I hope

(06:28):
Sophia has amazing support around her. I hope, and I
know she's like I said what I said, which is great.
But the more this goes on, they will beat her
down with it. That's what they do. And this when
you start to bring in children and the welfare of children,
they know exactly what they're doing. It's calculated and it
should be called out. Sophie is amazing, She's done not

(06:55):
a thing wrong, and this coach is well, she should
hang her head in shame. You know what, if she
wanted to wear a T shirt, she should have won
a T shirt that said let boys play in girls' sport,
because that is essentially all Sophia said. If you disagree,

(07:15):
Great America, Land of the Free home like free speech, great,
wear that shirt. If you want to refute what Sophie
Cunningham has done and said, wear a shirt that says
let boys play in girls' sport, that's fine. But to
wear a shirt that says all trans kids are well,
it's framing this as something it is not. And I

(07:40):
send love to all, love to all the thought of
any child feeling awful is horrific. But by wearing that shirt,
she's saying to trans kids that they are the target here.
They are not
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