Former NBA first-round draft picks Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White have both announced their intentions to declare for the 2027 WNBA Draft.

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As I've explained before, the biggest mistake the WNBA could make was letting it leak that the commissioner and owners were meeting in response to Freedom’s draft declaration. Now everyone anticipates a response. And the longer the WNBA’s doesn't issue a response, the more it reads as panic. At this point it no longer matters what they do or say. Everything will be viewed through the lens of panic. Freedom literally put the WNBA in checkmate with the first video where he forced a binary choice: A. Allow the two to enter the WNBA draft. That means publicly accepting that “woman” is just a feeling. It is absurd, and would disenfranchise the women in the league. B. Draw a hard line and say they do not qualify. That means admitting self-ID is not enough and that biology matters. It would be a public abandonment of the core liberal doctrine on gender. Like I've said before--either choice burns gender ideology to the ground. And while the league stays silent, Freedom keeps releasing more videos where he's walking that razor-thin line between sincerity and parody. The ambiguity is what makes these videos so effective. I don't see how the WNBA gets out of this.
 
Claiming to meet current self-identification guidelines, their announcements are a deliberate challenge to the league's policies surrounding transgender athlete inclusion.
There is no "self-identification guidelines", and no "transgender athletes" being included. The problem here is that you are getting your news from FoxNews, and it is not a valid newssource.

If he says he identifies a as a woman, what justification can be offered?
In the real world, the league officials decide who is qualified. The league officials have a huge amount of leeway on their decisions. Seriously, did you ever play sports? How do you not know this?

if the league's rules treat self-ID as sufficient for eligibility (or leave it ambiguous)
The league does not treat "self-ID" as anything. If it leaves it as ambiguous, then the league officials get to decide. That is how the real world works.

  • There is no definition of “women” or “woman” in the agreement.
  • There is no explicit transgender / gender-identity policy, no self-identification rule, no hormone threshold (e.g., testosterone limits), no surgical requirement, and no formal verification process described in the public CBA language.
Even you admit that there is no self identification rule, and no explicit transgender policy. That leaves only the decision of the league officials. They will see this as an attack on the WNBA, which everyone agrees it is, and not qualify these two.

I guess WNBA league now stands for Washed-up NBA players league
You are obviously not a fan, which really gives you no say in how the league is run.

I dont know about that AT ALL.....it looks like the league is fucked no matter what they do......and it was not all that healthy before this.
If they rule these two men are not women, they will lose all the fans that hate the WNBA... But if they hate the WNBA they are not fans, so will lose nothing.

The WNBA has seen amazing growth. It is one of the most healthy leagues of any sport anywhere in the world.
 
There is no "self-identification guidelines", and no "transgender athletes" being included.

Who said otherwise?

The problem here is that you are getting your news from FoxNews, and it is not a valid newssource.

Says who?

In the real world, the league officials decide who is qualified. The league officials have a huge amount of leeway on their decisions.

Is that a fact?

Seriously, did you ever play sports? How do you not know this?

Irrelevant. Provide some evidence, if you can, and I will consider it.

The league does not treat "self-ID" as anything. If it leaves it as ambiguous, then the league officials get to decide. That is how the real world works.

Is that so?

You are obviously not a fan, which really gives you no say in how the league is run.

An unsubstantiated assumption. Who here said they have a say in how the league is run?

If they rule these two men are not women, they will lose all the fans that hate the WNBA...

Is that a fact? Who are these supposed "fans that hate the WNBA"? Why would anyone be a fan of the WNBA if they hate it?

But if they hate the WNBA they are not fans, so will lose nothing.

Self contadiction?

The WNBA has seen amazing growth. It is one of the most healthy leagues of any sport anywhere in the world.

Is that so?
 
There is no "self-identification guidelines", and no "transgender athletes" being included. The problem here is that you are getting your news from FoxNews, and it is not a valid newssource.


In the real world, the league officials decide who is qualified. The league officials have a huge amount of leeway on their decisions. Seriously, did you ever play sports? How do you not know this?


The league does not treat "self-ID" as anything. If it leaves it as ambiguous, then the league officials get to decide. That is how the real world works.


Even you admit that there is no self identification rule, and no explicit transgender policy. That leaves only the decision of the league officials. They will see this as an attack on the WNBA, which everyone agrees it is, and not qualify these two.


You are obviously not a fan, which really gives you no say in how the league is run.


If they rule these two men are not women, they will lose all the fans that hate the WNBA... But if they hate the WNBA they are not fans, so will lose nothing.

The WNBA has seen amazing growth. It is one of the most healthy leagues of any sport anywhere in the world.
The reason people like @Damocles and @T. A. Gardner Damo Terry attack women's basketball is because they both feel inadequate as men in my opinion.

I'm already spent certain that any of those WNBA players they're shit on could beat the ever-loving shit out of either of them. And they know it.

And I'm not doing this just a troll I really do think they have a mental problem.
 
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