“Second, our player eligibility rules, unlike the eligibility rules of some other leagues and governing bodies, are collectively bargained.”
That’s the money quote. Here is a link to the WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA): https://www.wnbpa.com/_files/ugd/8121a3_675911316ca142178932adc1e56519ac.pdf
CBA Art. XIII, ยง 1(a) states, “Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.” Although the CBA includes 16 pages of definitions, the word “women” is not defined.
What WNBA Commissioner Engelbert is really saying is that even if we want to open the league to trans men pretending to be women, we can’t because the CBA limits eligibility to women — which, of course, goes against the official LGBTQ+/radical left/woke position that trans women are real women.
Although the CBA can be modified with the consent of all parties to expressly define “women” to include trans women, such a modification would put every WNBA player (who are biological woman) at risk of losing their job to a biological man.
What if a 20 year old women self identified as 'God' and wanted her pronoun to be 'Almighty' and robbed churches? Saying it was HER money? Would a liberal 'elite' judge give her a pass?
Are we really this gullible and stupid?