This is so incredibly ridiculous that it almost reads like parody.

The WNBA is the Women’s National Basketball Association. The entire point of the league is that it exists for women. Yet the league is now holding discussions over transgender eligibility while saying there are “no immediate eligibility matters” and denouncing what it calls “bad-faith efforts” around the issue. The league’s own collective bargaining agreement says only women are eligible to play, but reporting on the controversy notes that it does not define the term.

How did women’s professional basketball get to the point where “who is a woman?” requires meetings, task forces and corporate language?

This is also a breathtaking missed opportunity.

Caitlin Clark helped bring enormous attention to the league. The WNBA itself called 2024 a record-setting season, with its highest attendance in 22 years, record television audiences, record merchandise sales, and a single-season attendance record for the Indiana Fever. Clark’s rookie season was at the center of that explosion in interest.

The league had momentum. It had new fans. It had people watching women’s basketball who had never cared before.

Instead of protecting that opportunity, WNBA leadership and some of its coaches have allowed the league to become a progressive political shitshow.

Then came the Sophie Cunningham incident. Chicago’s DiJonai Carrington struck Cunningham in the head and neck, the foul was reviewed and upgraded to a Flagrant 2 because officials found windup, impact and follow-through. Carrington, who is Black, later posted “WHITE PRIVILEGE” and tagged the Fever, although she later said she was not claiming the foul call itself was white privilege.

And somehow the conversation again became about rhetoric, divisiveness and everyone’s feelings instead of simply defending the women who are supposed to be the reason this league exists.

Now former NBA players are making a mockery of the eligibility loophole just to force the question the WNBA should have answered immediately.

Biological women. Period.