Smug Megan Rapinoe goes on unhinged rant, attacks Riley Gaines and Sophie Cunningham over women's sports
Megan Rapinoe is back, taking shots at women's sports advocates and once again insisting the differences between male and female athletes shouldn't matter in women's sports.Speaking on her "Why Are You Like This?" podcast — a question sports fans have been asking about her for years — the former USWNT star went after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham and OutKick's own Riley Gaines after the two posed for a photo following the Fever's game against the Minnesota Lynx.Rapinoe supports allowing biological males to compete in women's sports, yet frames women who object, and even athletes who simply stand beside them, as the villains.MEGAN RAPINOE SAYS EFFORTS TO BAR TRANS ATHLETES FROM WOMEN'S SPORTS ARE 'ATTACK ON WOMEN IN SOCIETY'"I want to address the controversy that is happening right now around trans women in sports," Rapinoe opened."As you know, I've talked about this a lot and will continue to keep talking about this."She went straight after Cunningham, a fan-favorite WNBA guard now popular with young girls across the country.Cunningham's big offense? Posing for a picture with Gaines, an athlete who watched female swimmers get robbed of trophies by a biological male and pledged to stop it from happening to anyone else.In fact, when Gaines attended that game, arena security singled her out as the only person in the building forced to put down a simple sign supporting Cunningham ("Sophie thank you - a Girl Mom").That selective censorship shows just how directly Gaines and Cunningham are running counter to the WNBA's enforced agenda."I don't know Sophie, so I can only project what I see about her beliefs based on her actions, and seeing a picture of her with Riley Gaines after the game told me everything I need to know about what's happening," Rapinoe scoffed.Rapinoe then demanded ideological conformity from the WNBA star, treating a single post-game photo with Gaines as proof of Cunningham's beliefs rather than addressing anything Cunningham herself had said.Zero facts, zero conversation.
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Megan Rapinoe is back, taking shots at women's sports advocates and once again insisting the differences between male and female athletes shouldn't matter in women's sports.Speaking on her "Why Are You Like This?" podcast — a question sports fans have been asking about her for years — the former USWNT star went after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham and OutKick's own Riley Gaines after the two posed for a photo following the Fever's game against the Minnesota Lynx.Rapinoe supports allowing biological males to compete in women's sports, yet frames women who object, and even athletes who simply stand beside them, as the villains.MEGAN RAPINOE SAYS EFFORTS TO BAR TRANS ATHLETES FROM WOMEN'S SPORTS ARE 'ATTACK ON WOMEN IN SOCIETY'"I want to address the controversy that is happening right now around trans women in sports," Rapinoe opened."As you know, I've talked about this a lot and will continue to keep talking about this."She went straight after Cunningham, a fan-favorite WNBA guard now popular with young girls across the country.Cunningham's big offense? Posing for a picture with Gaines, an athlete who watched female swimmers get robbed of trophies by a biological male and pledged to stop it from happening to anyone else.In fact, when Gaines attended that game, arena security singled her out as the only person in the building forced to put down a simple sign supporting Cunningham ("Sophie thank you - a Girl Mom").That selective censorship shows just how directly Gaines and Cunningham are running counter to the WNBA's enforced agenda."I don't know Sophie, so I can only project what I see about her beliefs based on her actions, and seeing a picture of her with Riley Gaines after the game told me everything I need to know about what's happening," Rapinoe scoffed.Rapinoe then demanded ideological conformity from the WNBA star, treating a single post-game photo with Gaines as proof of Cunningham's beliefs rather than addressing anything Cunningham herself had said.Zero facts, zero conversation. Just pure guilt by association, which is a classic Rapinoe move."Sophie has claimed both to love trans people and support Title IX. And this is where I think the accountability with having a major platform is extremely important."RILEY GAINES SAYS WNBA IS 'HELLBENT' ON BEING AN ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION OVER A BASKETBALL LEAGUERapinoe then turned her attention to Gaines."Riley Gaines has made it her life's mission to exclude trans people from public life," Rapinoe claimed."She's directly tied to the Heritage Foundation, the authors of Project 2025 and now 2026, who have now published a report that suggests that they want to repeal Title IX, the very piece of legislation that allowed athletes like Sophie and myself to compete in sports."What Rapinoe conveniently forgets, or deliberately omits, is that Gaines was in the water, competing head-to-head against a MAN (Will "Lia" Thomas) at the 2022 NCAA Championships.Activists like Rapinoe cheered for Will Thomas' inclusion in the pool and the women's locker room.It's classic Rapinoe spin.
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- Megan Rapinoe is back, taking shots at women's sports advocates and once again insisting the differences between male and female athletes shouldn't matter in women's sports.Speaking on her "Why Are You Like This?" podcast — a question sports fans have been asking about her for years — the former USWNT star went after Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham and OutKick's own Riley Gaines after the two posed for a photo following the Fever's game against the Minnesota Lynx.Rapinoe supports allowing biological males to compete in women's sports, yet frames women who object, and even athletes who simply stand beside them, as the villains.MEGAN RAPINOE SAYS EFFORTS TO BAR TRANS ATHLETES FROM WOMEN'S SPORTS ARE 'ATTACK ON WOMEN IN SOCIETY'"I want to address the controversy that is happening right now around trans women in sports," Rapinoe opened."As you know, I've talked about this a lot and will continue to keep talking about this."She went straight after Cunningham, a fan-favorite WNBA guard now popular with young girls across the country.Cunningham's big offense? Posing for a picture with Gaines, an athlete who watched female swimmers get robbed of trophies by a biological male and pledged to stop it from happening to anyone else.In fact, when Gaines attended that game, arena security singled her out as the only person in the building forced to put down a simple sign supporting Cunningham ("Sophie thank you - a Girl Mom").That selective censorship shows just how directly Gaines and Cunningham are running counter to the WNBA's enforced agenda."I don't know Sophie, so I can only project what I see about her beliefs based on her actions, and seeing a picture of her with Riley Gaines after the game told me everything I need to know about what's happening," Rapinoe scoffed.Rapinoe then demanded ideological conformity from the WNBA star, treating a single post-game photo with Gaines as proof of Cunningham's beliefs rather than addressing anything Cunningham herself had said.Zero facts, zero conversation.
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