{"id":799698,"date":"2026-08-02T17:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/799698\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:52:12","slug":"trans-activists-harass-hurl-slurs-at-sophie-cunningham-supporters-before-fever-game-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/799698\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans activists harass, hurl slurs at Sophie Cunningham supporters before Fever game in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sophie Cunningham\u2019s stance on protecting women\u2019s sports has become a major flash point across the WNBA<\/a>, and the backlash followed her supporters to Minnesota on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s sports advocates gathered peacefully outside Target Center ahead of the Indiana Fever\u2019s game against the Minnesota Lynx<\/a>, wearing XX-XY Athletics shirts and holding signs with slogans like “Pro-Women, Not Anti-Trans” and “Trust the Science.”<\/p>\n

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Sophie Cunningham supporters show up for the Fever star. (XX-XY Athletics)<\/p>\n

It marked the third rally organized in support of Cunningham since the Fever guard publicly said young female athletes “shouldn\u2019t have to go against biological men.”<\/p>\n

But trans activists gathered nearby were considerably less interested in peaceful disagreement.<\/p>\n

Video from outside the arena shows counterprotesters shouting through megaphones, hurling slurs and attempting to rip XX-XY shirts<\/a> from the hands of Cunningham\u2019s supporters. One man held a fan displaying the word “C\u2014T” over the women\u2019s heads.<\/p>\n

At one point, an activist became physical with a supporter, forcing security personnel to intervene.<\/p>\n

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Pro-trans protester harasses Sophie Cunningham supporter through megaphone. (XX-XY Athletics)<\/p>\n

So much for love and tolerance.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota confrontation followed similar scenes surrounding Fever games<\/a> in Seattle and Portland.<\/p>\n

During the first rally in Seattle, two teenage girls later attended the game wearing XX-XY shirts and holding a sign that read, “Thank You Sophie For Speaking Up For Girls.” Storm minority owner Celeste Keaton allegedly approached the girls courtside, cursed at them and called them “f\u2014ing insane,” leaving one of them in tears.<\/p>\n

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The WNBA subsequently fined the Storm and suspended Keaton from attending the team\u2019s next five home games.<\/p>\n

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XX-XY Athletics’ Jennifer Sey poses with a Sophie Cunningham poster. (XX-XY Athletics)<\/p>\n

Supporters rallied again Friday outside Portland\u2019s Moda Center, where trans activists interrupted speakers, cursed at reporters and confronted attendees. Inside the arena, Cunningham was relentlessly booed whenever she entered the game or touched the ball.<\/p>\n

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Cunningham, however, made it clear before the Portland game that she had no intention of backing down.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m here to play basketball, but I\u2019m also here to be me,” she said. “I\u2019m not going to, like, shadow that or hide or, you know, dim my light just because maybe people don\u2019t agree with that.”<\/p>\n

Amber Harding is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham\u2019s stance on protecting women\u2019s sports has become a major flash point across the WNBA, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2839,202545,1077,259870,99,434],"class_list":["post-799698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-indiana-fever","tag-minneapolis-st-paul","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}