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he Women’s National Basketball Association has recently brought a lot of absurd troubles on itself because its own leaders are unable or unwilling to state the obvious truth: that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, and that not all the pretending in the world can alter the fact, even with hormone-pumping and mutilation and pinning the tail on the donkey. To shine a floodlight on the absurdity, a couple of male basketball players, over the hill in age, have submitted their names for the next season’s draft, insisting that they are women. Of course it...

Cathy Engelbert will retire as WNBA commissioner at the end of the 2026 season following seven years at the helm, sources told ESPN on Friday. Multiple high-ranking team sources had recently told ESPN that they believed the 2026 season would likely be Engelbert's last. While Engelbert has ushered the WNBA into what she's called "hypergrowth" mode, transforming the league into a significantly more prominent sports and entertainment property, her leadership had come into question over the past year.

Enes Kanter Freedom has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Sky and the owners of Wintrust Arena, alleging that his First Amendment rights were violated when he was removed from a Sky home game last month and subsequently banned from attending WNBA games at the arena. Kanter Freedom's 15-page complaint was filed Thursday in the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division. In addition to the Sky, the complaint names the city of Chicago and Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which owns and operates Wintrust Arena, as defendants. Kanter Freedom was involved in a verbal altercation with Sky point guard Natasha...

Dallas Wings center Li Yueru won't be representing China in the FIBA Women's World Cup due to passport issues. Li announced on social media her passport "was lost in the mail and still hasn't been found" (via the Associated Press' Doug Feinberg). "Throughout this time, we've all been working hard together and exploring every possible solution, but maybe we were just a little short on luck this time," she said. "As of today, the passport is still missing. "Sometimes, disappointment is simply part of life. I'm sad that I won't be able to be there this time, but I'm incredibly...

Royce White brought his crusade to Indiana. The former NBA first-round pick wore a long blonde wig and sat courtside for the Fever’s 111-91 win over the Sun on Friday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. On his Instagram, White wrote, “The Kweeeen has arrived! They better bow for a beautiful Black Trans Lesbian!” with a smirk on his face. White, who, along with Enes Kanter Freedom, has been trying to push the WNBA amid the ongoing debate surrounding transgender participation in women’s sports. His appearance comes not long after Kanter Freedom, the former NBA big man, was courtside during a Fever game...

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....

I didn't know this, but it turns out the WNBA has already allowed a man to play on one of its teams. At least by trans activists' definition. In fact, they did so for several seasons, and the WNBA celebrated the accomplishment and expressed great pride in having an out trans player on one of its teams. The @wnba has a major legal problem. They already allowed a player who identified as a man to play in the league for years. They celebrated it publicly. So how can they keep @EnesFreedom & @Highway_30 out now. Read & share this: https://t.co/snCpxHxhvp—...

CHICAGO -- Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from Sunday's game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky after a verbal altercation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. Kanter Freedom was sitting courtside in a black T-shirt that read: "WOMAN noun. adult human female." When a timeout was called late in the third quarter, Cloud walked toward Kanter Freedom and shouted at him. He was standing with his arms outstretched and took a few steps toward the court before security cut him off and directed him to leave.

The Toronto Tempo debuted a new “non-binary” mascot ahead of their WNBA matchup with the Indiana Fever in an apparent swipe at controversial star Sophie Cunningham. The Tempo revealed Dez, a butch, non-binary Borealis Blue Snapping Turtle who uses she/they pronouns and “has a fondness for soft shell tacos,” the team said in an Tuesday announcement unveiling the new mascot. Dez also has a partner in crime, anthropomorphic arctic hare named Dot who uses standard she/her pronouns.

Folks, Somehow, the green dildo has returned. If you think back to pretty much a year ago, you'll remember that there was an onslaught of green dildos being thrown onto WNBA courts mid-game. It was stopping the action every time. The craze then spread to the NFL where fans were throwing the sex toys onto the field, but it didn't really have the same effect. People ran the bit into the ground very quickly and it was no longer funny.

The Fever came away with the win, but the on-field action has not really been the main topic of discussion in the days since. Instead, a lot of it has centred around Sophie Cunningham being the only player to put her hand on her heart as the national anthem was playing. In the clip which has been shared by multiple accounts on X/Twitter, Cunningham is standing slightly away from the rest of her teammates, none of whom have their hands raised. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Dream squad are not believed to have taken to the court while the anthem was ongoing.

The WNBA is in the middle of the controversial discourse surrounding transgender athletes participating in women’s sports. SNIP The hot-button conversations have given way to a series of demonstrations and stunts, and the latest went down at the Las Vegas Aces game over the weekend. Two men wearing dresses and makeup attended the Aces’ matchup against the Minnesota Lynx on Saturday. The controversy surrounding the WNBA and transgender athletes prompted former NBA players Enes Kanter and Royce White to claim their eligibility for the draft. The unnamed men at the Aces game appear to be following suit.

Where sex is concerned, human reproductive biology is pretty standard: Humans are sexually bipolar, with two sexes, male and female. This is determined genetically at conception; barring a few rare and usually debilitating genetic disorders, an XX chromosome pair results in a female, and an XY pair, a male. That's just how it is. These are facts. And another fact is that the XY pairing gives the resulting child and, in time, adult, a significant advantage in sports. Now, the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) doesn't seem to understand that, especially with regards to "trans-women" - men - playing in...

Who knew a first-grade science question could so thoroughly upend a $5.5 billion enterprise? And yet the WNBA, whose first letter stands for women, can’t seem to shake the media firestorm over the meaning of sex. Now, weeks into what should have been a non-controversy — Sophie Cunningham’s declaration of support for men playing in their own league and not in hers — the leadership of the league is convening an emergency meeting to debate what should be the most obvious data point in the sport: who’s eligible to play in the WNBA.Of course, the league, under the spineless leadership...

What does it say when an organization has to call an all-hands meeting to define the word "woman"? Especially when the organization literally has that word in its title? And what does it say about the organization when it fails to do so? The Women's National Basketball Association held a league-wide meeting yesterday to address the issue of eligibility restrictions. Its charter makes clear that only "women" can compete in the league, a term which, up until a hot second ago, everyone understood perfectly. And after everyone cogitated for the entire day on what the word "women" means, the league...

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WNBA Task Force meets to define “women.” This pic is NOT from the short video. Somebody posted it on the X post: And VERY true!

Former Utah Jazz center Enes Kanter Freedom said on Tuesday he’s officially begun his “transition” to a WNBA player — and he announced the move with a video that already has social media buzzing. Freedom shared a clip of him lifting weights while shirtless on his X page at around 7:30 a.m., and by noon, it had already garnered over 1.5 million views. “Let ‘The Transition’ to the @WNBA begin,” Freedom wrote in a caption on the footage. “Rules Are Rules! #LetFreedomPlay.” In the vid, Freedom could be seen hitting bicep curls with a pair of heavy dumbbells. His barrel...

The more I hear of the WNBA, the more I realize there is no intelligent life here on this planet. Here is a recent headline, one that should be an excellent example of a Babylon Bee headline, but that isn’t a Babylon Bee headline, but a real one from Townhall -- an actual news outlet:AdvertisementWNBA to Hold Meeting to Discuss What the ‘W’ Stands For.The more I hear of the WNBA, the more I realize there is no intelligent life here on this planet. Beam me up, Scotty. Please.AdvertisementThe league is actually going to hold a meeting in an attempt...

Former NBA Draft first round pick (3rd overall in 2011) Enes Kanter Freedom, who has been an adamant opponent of LeBron James, the Chinese Communist Party, Nike, along with more political activism, which he believes blackballed him from the NBA, has officially declared himself a prospect for the 2027 WNBA Draft. Yes, I’m serious. In the aftermath of Sophie Cuningham making a definitive stance that women’s sports should remain female, many coaches and players have opened up the floodgates for men in their league. Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Willliams even said, "I would welcome a trans athlete on my...