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WNBA Had Trans Player in League for Years – This Will Likely Cause Major Legal Problems for Woke League After They Banned Enes Kantor Freedom and Roysha White from Joining
The Gateway Pundit ^ | August 28, 2026 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 08/28/2026 9:15:42 AM PDT by Red Badger

Earlier this week, the WNBA, the women's professional basketball league, announced that two former NBA players were ineligible to play in the league.

Former NBA stars Royce (Roysha) White and Enes Kanter Freedom had announced they were intending to play in the league next year after the WENBA brass refused to condemn biological men playing in the league against women.

The league did not elaborate on the reasons for declaring the two men ineligible.

Since this announcement, news has broken that the league previously allowed trans players to play.

In fact, one of the trans players has been very vocal.

Layshia Clarendon was born a female but decided to have her breasts removed while playing in the WNBA. She played in the league from 2013 to 2024.

Clay Travis posted the tweet earlier on Thursday. Travis believes the WNBA has a major legal problem.

The league allowed Clarendon to play while receiving testosterone, but Royce and Enes are not allowed?

I would like other lawyers to read and analyze this too. If @wnba let a woman identifying as a man play — while receiving testosterone — and called him a man in league releases how can they ban men who say they are women? https://t.co/snCpxHxhvp

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 27, 2026


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: hoftisafairy; trans; transgender; wnba

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1 posted on 08/28/2026 9:15:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Nobody noticed because no one watched.


2 posted on 08/28/2026 9:17:26 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: Red Badger
This Will Likely Cause Major Legal Problems for Woke League After They Banned Enes Kantor Freedom and Roysha White from Joining

There's an assumption in this headline that the judge presiding over any potential lawsuit will be interested in the facts and the law, and will not instead prioritize left-wing politics. That's a very big assumption.
3 posted on 08/28/2026 9:22:36 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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i agree- but it will still be fun to watch


4 posted on 08/28/2026 9:24:33 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: Red Badger

Another “Gift That Keeps On Giving.”


5 posted on 08/28/2026 9:28:00 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Red Badger

“””Layshia Clarendon was born a female but decided to have her breasts removed while playing in the WNBA.”””

So she is still a chick and always will be.


6 posted on 08/28/2026 9:29:42 AM PDT by shelterguy
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So she is still a chick and always will be.

Which is an non-issue.

But I can see how this is their interpretation of "trans".

All they have to do is to clarify that only "biological females" are allowed to play in the WNBA even if they identify as "men".

But of course they're not doing that.

7 posted on 08/28/2026 9:33:59 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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I need a scorecard and maybe some spreadsheets to keep track on who’s zoomin’ whom?

Layshia had her breasts removed, but still played in the WNBA? What did she get out of this?
The quiet thrill of ‘passing as a woman’ while pretending to be a man? “Passing” not meant to be a pun.


8 posted on 08/28/2026 9:36:00 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: proust

“Nobody noticed because no one watched.”

But for Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham, no one would be watching now.
No one wants to watch bitter black lesbians and trannys attempting to play basketball and failing miserably at it.


9 posted on 08/28/2026 9:36:56 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Red Badger

I am surprised the league supported a player doping to the point that her body started changing like an East German Olympian; someone should be watching out for her health. Do they allow other performance enhancing substances?


10 posted on 08/28/2026 9:38:17 AM PDT by not in the club
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I still don’t quite understand the fixation on the WNBA. It’s an organization on par with a decent mid level minor league baseball division. Their gate receipts are tiny. Their TV time is filler in an off season (and probably forced by lucrative NBA contracts.). Their players, for the most part, are unknown and not likeable.

This constant drumbeat is tedious and useless. This battle should be fought in high schools and college (and the Olympics.). Aside from that professional leagues can do whatever they want. The market will tell them where to go.

If you visit WNBA focused forums you will find their fan base is mostly Subaru driving, pink haired, psychopaths. These people think we want them dead. You really can’t discuss things rationally with people with that mindset.


11 posted on 08/28/2026 9:39:48 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Red Badger

“We are a league that excludes biological, heterosexual, cis-gender males, most emphatically conservative ones”. That would clarify things nicely. They should have a lawyer put it in writing into their bylaws.


12 posted on 08/28/2026 9:43:39 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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“... their fan base is mostly Subaru driving, pink haired, psychopaths. “

That’s the Democrat Party in a nutshell............


13 posted on 08/28/2026 9:44:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Vermont Lt

“... their fan base is mostly Subaru driving, pink haired, psychopaths. “

That’s the Democrat Party in a nutshell............


14 posted on 08/28/2026 9:44:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: not in the club

” Do they allow other performance enhancing substances?”

Midol?................


15 posted on 08/28/2026 9:46:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

In 10,661 days since June 21, 1997, official start of the WNBA and I haven’t watched one game and that records looks to stand most likely for the rest of my life!!


16 posted on 08/28/2026 9:46:40 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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The woke WNBA has absolutely stepped in it, and their circular logic has come back to bite them - bigly. The (demonic) power behind the tranny movement doesn’t want a separate league, they want full recognition and normalization of the lifestyle. The Left has set the rules that anyone can change genders, but they know what will happen if either of these men get in the league. The WNBA also can’t just come up with some sort of litmus test to prove if the men pretending to be women are serious about pretending, or just pretending. Stock up on popcorn, this is going to be very entertaining.


17 posted on 08/28/2026 9:47:03 AM PDT by Kharis13 (-)
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To: Red Badger

*Brittany*?


18 posted on 08/28/2026 9:48:00 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: The Louiswu

If it wasn’t for the late Norm MacDonald I never would have heard of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlTwwLh2pUs


19 posted on 08/28/2026 9:48:40 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Vermont Lt
...professional leagues can do whatever they want. The market will tell them where to go.

Government bypassed the market when they forced taxpayers to subsidize the professional leagues.

20 posted on 08/28/2026 9:48:59 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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