6’10” former Knicks and Celtics star formerly declares for the WNBA draft

WTF did I just read?

What happened to the male who sexually assaulted his female opponent during a wrestling competition in view of all the spectators? I seem to remember the coach didn't stop the match, nor were the police called immediately. Has he been banned yet and charged?

100% of TRAs screaming about how Royce White is a wifebeater are committing the logical fallacy known as "poisoning the well". It's a form of ad hominem attack and they are using it to avoid engaging with the point that he is making, which is that nothing in WNBA rules stops him from signing up as a female player.

As @Datun and JKR both point out, that one of these men is a wifebeater and could still sign up s a female player underlines our argument that no man should be allowed to compete in women's sports or use women's changing rooms.

‘Entrapped’.

investigative journalists (including undercover actions) do ‘entrap’ organisations to create content though.

And the journalists do this also with an aim to force change too.

You have not heard of William Randolf Hearst then ....

Exactly.

It's so arse about face. You're being forced to back up your statements that you protect women's sport. Go on then.

Honestly, the fucking hypocrisy is infuriating

I absolutely fucking hate this. If one of those men is a wife beater, it just proves our point, not that of trans ideology.

Men are the abusive sex. It's the whole fucking point.

This pretence that any man who is trans is not abusive is absolute bollocks.

This guy is living proof.

And now they are being forced to look at their criteria. Just that makes the whole fricking thing worth it.

Go on, come up with some criteria, let's have it.

What are they being 'entrapped' into doing?

Announcing a policy that clarifies the rules? Following the lead of other organisations who have done similar?

JKR has now posted on this in response to TA outage about insincere men in dresses wanting to play basketball. Read the entire thread it is hilarious:

J.K. Rowling
17h
AndrewMercado You say some men ‘sincerely’ identify as women, but that these two men aren’t sincere. Do sincere men injure fewer women and girls than the insincere ones? How do we test for sincerity? What if a Sincerity Jury is split? Very much looking forward to your answers.

https://nitter.net/jk_rowling/status/2086492523774489082#m

The organisations resorting to deception and trickery are the sports organisations that allow men to invade women's sport. This includes the organisations that refuse to clarify their positions, like the WBNA.

I’m a trained journalist.There is a gulf between this type of entrapment ruse and legitimate investigation. It isn’t common - or it shouldn’t be - for journalists or media to create their own content to report on.

That is literally what occurred here.

It's here and it's long!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5333650-an-update-to-the-wi-announcement-thread-my-dh-just-got-a-reply-to-his-application-to-join-them?page=1

I believe Fishman has also declared too.

That is four.

BREAKING: Michael Beasley has officially declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft after identifying as a woman. He is the third former NBA player to do so following Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White. The move continues to spark debate across professional sports.

Yes. This all kicked off because another news agency decided to use ‘bait’ to sell content .

imagine that though.

But media organisations all over the world do stuff like this all the time. You are naive to think that they only report the news - they very often make it themselves and have been doing so ever since newspapers were invented.

Actually this whole media drama was created by a "liberal" media outlet ESPN. They did an interview with Sophie Cunningham 20 days ago ago where they asked her about her knowledge about female biology and girl's locker rooms being mixed sex . She had gone on record back in 2022 saying yes she thought there was such a thing as male and females sexes. At that time she didn't publicise it, just said yes women and women's sports are a thing. Because they actually are.

ESPN did a piece about how controversial Sophie was which explained her life story and her world view. It is a good article, and as part of that they decided to question her about her thoughts about women's sports and guess what she said the same thing. They did this because they knew it would make article more dramatic and they knew it would make them MONEY. It also happened to be the truth. This is what she said.

Love her or hate her, Sophie Cunningham won't be ignored

You say she's authentic? That's because she is, she says. "You see so many people change or try to fit into a box," she says. "I don't even know what that box is. It's a fake box. Everyone wants to look the same. Everyone wants the same vibe. Screw that. I'm gonna be me."

You say she's a "MAGA Barbie," as some corners of the internet have taken to calling her? Projection, she says, because of what she looks like and where she's from. She'll weigh in on how to "protect women's sports," she says, because she's in that world and feels qualified to speak to that world. "I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that,'" she says. "I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."

But she also insists that none of this is some Rosetta Stone to unlocking the true nature of her political worldview.

"I'm very much in the middle. I agree with things on both sides, disagree with things on both sides. And that's all I've ever said about my political beliefs. But people love to assume."

https://www.espn.co.uk/wnba/story/_/id/49306657/sophie-cunningham-finger-point-indiana-fever-wnba

Only this time a lot of "liberal" media outlets repeated what Sophie said claiming she was transphobic, right leaning outlets then said she was a hero standing up for reality. The ESPN interview went viral. From that point it became huge news .Then there were protests and counter protests. Then some men got involved.

We have a thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5558154-us-womens-sports-star-sophie-cunningham-speaking-up-on-defending-womens-sports?

So yes Outkick asked a sexist cheating man in a dress does he think WBNA should be mixed sex. He said yes. Turns out that was good copy in an existing drama.

What a surprise. People LOVE arguing about basic biology. The big difference is that Sophie told the truth. About reality and everyone went insane. That is not on her that is on everyone else.

The US "liberal" media knew Cunningham would never back down that is her entire persona. Guess what they don't want her to really despite claiming they want to protect "trans" people. Any more than they want JKR to shut up. They know now some people can't be cancelled. They want outrage and drama just like the right wing media. [Though it has got so absurd one wonders if some of the "liberals" are doing secret terfing. You better not listen to what Sophie says about women being real and having sports let me just post about it everywhere.]

It is absurd that the WBNA doesn't know what a woman is when that is the basis of what they do every day. That a bunch of guys decided to make a daft situation even more daft is hardly surprising. It has happened before in other sports it is just this time Sophie laid the ground so it became a HUGE moment.

Would love to read about this!

All they have to do is confirm that woman means biological woman. It's one sentence, it takes 30 seconds.

The very fact that their statement doesn't do that is telling. Either they do include men, or they're too shit scared to say they don't.

So I don't give a flying fuck if they're being baited to come clean.

Women across the globe being hopelessly shafted by this ideology and now we have to contend with criticism of a challenge in case it might be ethically dubious??

For fuck's sake, what does it bloody well take.

There goes a stream of undercover investigative journalism then.

Best hope that if Ms White breaches the order and is sent to prison it'll be a women's one, eh? Would be literal genocide if not.

You say "deception and trickery", I say "satire and mockery".

As I said earlier, it would be helpful if organisations like the NBA could confirm that they are as welcoming to trans identifying men as women's sports have been welcoming to trans identifying women.

That is the inclusion that we are actually lacking.

And the WNBA could shut it all down by confirming their policy, which would given certainty to everyone.

male athletes who wish to compete as female athletes in any female sporting category which has a policy that allows them to play don’t have to pass any political alignment test.

Right-wing cheats are cheats. Left-wing cheats are stunning and brave, right?

Do we all have to wait for a male person with a transgender identity to be playing at elite level ? Oh… right. And then everyone who tried to get the WNBA to act would be called a bigot anyway. So isn’t it far better that not one player is being focused on specifically to be removed from the league?

Exactly this. The public humiliation endured by a certain Mr Semenya could have been avoided completely, had World Athletics made it clear that female category runners would be cheek swab tested before South Africa fielded him on their team. It is kinder and fairer all around to prevent the male players from getting into female sports than to remove them afterwards.