WNBA Won’t Define Woman, But Disqualifies Enes Kanter Freedom, Royce White
The WNBA knows Freedom and Royce are males, but still won’t define female.
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) and four other House Republicans that former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White cannot play in the league because they’re men.
“With respect to your questions regarding eligibility, only women are eligible to play in the WNBA and the individuals you cite in your letter are both men,” wrote Engelbert.
Freedom responded:
Apparently, the WNBA still can’t define what a WOMAN is, but they’re absolutely certain they know what a MAN is!
How convenient!
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has declared that I am a man.
Who gave her the authority to decide who I am?
Who gets to define my identity?
And how can the WNBA determine who is a man without explaining what qualifies someone as a woman?
Is the WNBA denying people the right to define their own gender identity?
You can’t have it both ways!
America, read this letter for yourselves.
THE WNBA HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO!
🚨 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF AMERICA, THE MOMENT YOU’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!
The @WNBA has officially responded!
IS THE #WNBA TRANSPHOBIC?
Apparently, the WNBA still can’t define what a WOMAN is, but they’re absolutely certain they know what a MAN is!
How convenient!
WNBA… pic.twitter.com/7UAlxO1U7l
— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) October 20, 2026
The WNBA became controversial after intense backlash against Sophie Cunningham for wanting to protect young girls from males in female sports and spaces.
Coaches and owners came out in support of males in female sports. Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton even harassed two young females at a game who wore XX-XY apparel and thanked Cunningham for speaking out.
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams even said she wouldn’t mind playing with a male.
Well, Freedom and White declared their eligibility for the WNBA draft.
Besides, Freedom and White’s decision is no different than most of these supposed “trans” athletes we see around the country. Nearly all of them became “trans” after they failed in the male category.
The WNBA formed a task force to review Freedom and White’s eligibility.
The task force emerged in mid-August without a definition of woman, of course.
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Wander into a ladies dressing room, utilize her as s expert we witness
If dey consistent, as rent ekf etal lol ladies if they claim to be? I guess unless dey republicans. T he is entire thing is a joke as is WNBA: let us ignore it
Typing on small screen.y apologies
You type like you are from the Bayou when you do that.
Lol
That’s what I thought, cher…
lol always my phone I look retarded
Having a keyboard with keys 1/4 of the size of a finger is asinine.
I thought it was some street patois with which I was unfamiliar.
Awaiting the first woman that identifies as a man trying to play in the NBA
Layshia Clarendon, female at birth, played in the WNBA from 2013-24. (Insert pronouns here) came out as non-binary in 2020. I don’t know if Layshia identified as male, but (insert pronouns here) did have chest masculinization surgery in 2021.
The difference is that the NBA isn’t a man’s league but just a league that takes the most talented players. As of yet no women have proven talented enough to make it in a league which is simply merit based. That is why they created the WNBA so that there was a league where women can compete. It’s also why as soon as men are able to compete in the WNBA it will destroy the WNBA as a woman’s league.
A couple decades ago there was a gayness test administered to gay softball leagues, producing some controversy. The underlying idea was that if a team admitted non-gay players, then it was picking from a much larger population and so got better players. They were restricted in the number of non-gays they could have on a team.
My guess is that you are correct. If some seven ft woman with double D cups showed up, could dunk the ball and hit three pointers 75 percent of the time, they would sign her in a heartbeat.
Oh, goody. Now it’s time, for some protracted litigation where the WNBA learns very little.
Why is a WNBA which can’t define the W allowed to exist?
Why is any private organization “allowed” to exist? Because this is America, where you don’t need permission to exist.
Sounds like misandry to me. How dare they tell us what a man is…they don’t even claim to be men!
Yep. If man-splaining is a cultural taboo/no no then so is ‘woman-splaining’ otherwise we ain’t living up to the demands for equality and instead are granting privileges based on sex/gender. Either we have equality or we don’t.
“the individuals you cite in your letter are both men.” PROVE IT!
This just keeps getting more hilarious with each wNBA move.
Keep it up, dummies.
“You can’t have it both ways!”
Precisely. Sue them right out of their Blahniks. Have their delusions and inconsistencies officially adjudged.
Yep. By suing them they’re gonna be forced to disclose their eligibility criteria and that sinks their ship. They can’t very well admit their criteria is subjective nor can they all back on basic biological arguments. The WNBA willingly entered this dead end canyon to maintain their ideological purity and eventually they’re gonna be forced to concede they use nothing more than subjective feels and ever shifting definitions created by the whacky wing of the LGBTQIA2S+ mafia …not b/c it was imposed upon them from outside but b/c the WNBA is in ideological lockstep agreement.
Why can’t they admit their criteria are subjective?
Gonna be tough to argue subjective criteria about which of the 87 ‘genders’ they allow to compete and the definition for each while still maintaining their anti trust exemption. In addition there’s the little issue basic fairness and consistency …which has always been the Achilles heel of the girls = boys and men = women interchangeably argument. Then the potential spillover impact to decisions re continuation of Title 9 and girls/women’s sports in general, heck just their existence at least for scholarship #. If there’s a subjective argument about who can compete in ‘women’s sports’ that’s totes OK for WNBA then each University should logically be free to set its own policy regardless of Title 9 and if Title 9 is an impediment to that (it is) then clearly we just junk title 9 scholarship requirements that mandate parity in # of athletic scholarships between ‘men’ and ‘women’ and really if there isn’t a consistent definition of differences sufficient for a Pro League to lay out in simple unambiguous bright line terms …then perhaps the answer is to end ALL divisions of competition based on sex and just have one team for each event and may the best Man or Woman win their spot on it and the athletic scholarship which accompanies it. Same.for other Pro Sports. No separate LPGA tour just the PGA. Same.for tennis. Same for ‘Ironman’ competition and marathons would have only a single open category not sex based timekeeping/scoring with a separate sex based category ‘winner’. The cultural aspects are as important as the legal aspects. If you don’t believe that … if the WNBA tries to use arguments about biological differences the Trans mafia and AWFLs will try to lynch them ….maybe even literally.
Blahniks? More likely Timberlands.
But nobody wants secondhand Timberlands.
Men dribble more prodigiously.
They’re ignoring Freedom’s lived experience as a woman in the NBA.
That’s because they don’t want to embarrass themselves when they would have to fire Britney Griner, since Layshia Renee Clarendon the 1st “non binary” who had top surgery and played 11 seasons starting in 2013 is already done and gone.
Now you have me wondering if there is a performance-enhancing aspect to top surgery in basketball. After all, the Greek goddess Diana found one in archery.
Translation: Any liberal “trans woman” will be deemed to be a woman by the WNBA, but any right of center “trans woman” will be deemed to be a man by the WNBA.
Any biological man wanting to play in the WNBA simply has to appear to the leadership of the WNBA to be a sincere convert as a “trans woman”.
If you define what a woman is then you can’t have feminism as it exists. The free exchange of sexual identity cards is the whole point.
The whole damn thing is a farcical joke. It is obvious to anyone with a brain.
I find it mildly amusing that a bunch of lesbians can’t identify women. I’d act about their dating histories but I’m not that interested.