Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham is the left’s new punching bag, and the attacks against her are increasingly incoherent.

Cunningham broke the left when she commented in a July ESPN profile that it was important to protect young female athletes from having to compete against biological men. Ever since the ESPN profile was released, she’s been bullied on and off the court by rabid leftists who claim she supposedly hates trans people.

“I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” Cunningham told ESPN. “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.”

This is a straightforward defense of sex-based categories in women’s sports and private spaces. Still, the left stops short of their protecting-women mantra when it comes down to actually protecting them. And while all of this is a clear sign of society’s continued decline, writer Howard Bryant produced a textbook example of “jumping the shark” for the British publication The Guardian.

Bryant’s August 2 column labels Cunningham the right’s “anti-Black, anti-transgender culture war ambassador,” a role he claims was originally intended for Caitlin Clark. Somehow, saying that women should be allowed to have their own sports categories, locker rooms, and bathrooms is anti-trans and anti-black. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)

“She [Cunningham] wasn’t even who the marketers picked to sell sex to the boys – the role of the glammed-up, blonde beauty baller belonged to 6ft 4in Cameron Brink,” Bryant wrote. “Cunningham needed the culture........

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