What Is a Woman? Unprincipled WNBA Is Being Pressured to Walk the “Trans” Walk

“It’s easy being idealistic when you don’t have to live with your ideals,” someone close to me once said. The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is learning this the hard way, too.

That is, the league recently defended the practice of having men who masquerade as female in women’s/girls’ sports. The reaction?

Many observers, including me, suggested that high-level male basketballers should try to make the WNBA practice what it preaches. Then it happened:

Two ex-NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, declared last Friday for the WNBA draft.

Both “women” (hey, let’s get into the spirit here) are young enough to be assets to the league. Freedom is 34, White 35. Moreover, the former is 6’10” and 250 lbs, and White is 6’8” and 260. So it’s not just that they could routinely out-rebound the competition and easily dunk the ball.

They also could perhaps dunk their average WNBA opponent while she’s holding the ball.

Very impressive ladies they are.

Oh, don’t be fooled by their beards and brick-outhouse physiques. Under WNBA rules, they can qualify as women.

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This controversy began when WNBA player Sophie Cunningham stated that women “shouldn’t have to go against” men in sports. (Actually, it began when sexual devolutionaries embraced the illusion that “sex” is “gender” and that people can change theirs.) She has stuck by her beliefs, too, mostly. This resulted in woke pushback, with WNBA figures disgorging emotion-driven irrationality and politically correct PR statements.

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams, for example, said she’d “welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team any time.” Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White — Cunningham’s own coach — was also among those weighing in. “I don’t ever believe that exclusion is an answer,” she stated. “We need to have deeper, more layered conversations.”

What they should be layered with she didn’t say.

And the WNBPA (the players’ union) touted “justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion” while denouncing “hate, abuse, and demonization.” My, how original.

So now we come to the two ex-NBA ladies. Wanting to be included in this inclusion, Royce White stated, “I’m transgender. I’m a woman. I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for purpose of basketball, professional basketball.”

Freedom also desires freedom from the “socially-constructed gender binary.” As he put it, if “simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement.”

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What then transpired was truly shocking: People are actually telling these ex-NBA women how to be women. I mean, have they even consulted with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson?

Just consider the following tweet in which White, who’s running for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota, dunks on an offensive critic.

For sure: Her body, her choice, right?

White was also “misgendered” and dead-named — in 2026! (Tweet below.)

You’d think Isaiah Martin, a Democratic activist, would know better, too. Will he be canceled?

Thankfully, X respondents were far more sensitive and enlightened. As user “Too Black for BET?” posted, defending black Black women everywhere:

Another user noted Ms. Royce White’s obvious facility for language, posting:

Then, commentator Colin Wright went left and cut to the matter’s heart, stating:

Yes, and White and Freedom are just about the biggest, strongest black Black women I’ve ever seen. (Well, at least since I left the Bronx, anyway.) You go, girl!

Let’s Look at Those Layers

But, okay, Stephanie White wanted a “deeper, more layered” conversation, so I’ll lay it out. Why is the WNBA so woke (which, of course, means being conveniently irrational)?

First, pseudo-elite institutions are universally woke today. Second, women are statistically more woke (i.e., liberal) than men are. Putting the two together — and the WNBA is a pseudo-elite institution with many women in leadership roles — results in wokeness on performance-enhancing drugs (estrogen).

The WNBA is also a business, however, even if you wouldn’t know it from their revenue stream. And businesses cater to their market. As to this, consider the WNBA’s viewer demographics, courtesy of a Grok AI analysis (all quotations Grok’s):

• Women, who lean left as a group, constitute 44 percent of the WNBA’s fans.
• Blacks are 34-45 percent, and they may bristle at a “black” league trumpeting a white player.
• Forty-seven percent “of fans are aged 18-34 (higher than the NBA’s ~42% and far above the ~30% of the overall U.S. adult population). About 50% of avid fans are under 35.” And younger people skew left.
• An inordinate percentage of fans come from the East and West coasts — more liberal regions. Midwest fans are underrepresented.
• “Fans tend to be engaged [and] values-driven (e.g., receptive to social consciousness in sponsorships)….”
• About “25% of lesbians in the U.S. watched WNBA games on TV; 21% had attended a game.…”
• Approximately “29% of season-ticket holders were lesbians.”

In other words, the WNBA’s market isn’t exactly a cross-section of America.

Layered Hypocrisy

Nonetheless, the hypocrisy is striking. For instance, just consider Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve. She has been one of the most vocal WNBA figures supporting “transgender” (i.e., male) athletes’ inclusion in women’s sports. Yet she has also complained about the rising number of male WNBA coaches. She wants women prioritized and has said that “we can’t let this happen.”

And the league generally appears to believe that “transwomen are women.” But it still has a problem with two particular ladies: Freedom and White. Apparently, “You are as you identify” — except when the WNBA says you ain’t.

Now, it’s said that it’s “a woman’s prerogative to change her mind,” but this is ridiculous. Explanation?

Well, again, it’s easy being idealistic — and indulging the wrong ideals — when only others must live with them. Ex-soccer player Megan Rapinoe can value-signal about the “trans” issue because she’s retired. She no longer has a place that a man (or boy) could take. As for the WNBA figures, they aim to massage the issue. They want to be woke and please their market. They also don’t really think (and I could end the sentence here) that serious male athletes will step up and try to, and be allowed to, replace them.

And what of the inconsistency? Meaningless. That concerns “white male linear logic,” and these wokesters are all relativists. And as long as the legacy media don’t call them out…

But, hey, I’m with the two ladies, Freedom and White. In fact, I’ve figured out a good — and fashionable — way to advance my journalism career. I’m now a black Black, female, lesbian primordial dwarf with a cleft palate, peg leg, and eating disorder. Don’t anyone dare tell me how to find my happy place and be my best self.