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

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Keeping men out of women’s sport is not a “right wing” belief. It’s a belief shared across everyone of all persuasions. The difference is right wing news outlets and organisations are more than happy to say it, report it, and act on it, whereas left wing news outlets and organisations are too scared of their own shadows to risk it. They are completely pathetic.
So you don’t think that OutKick calling Tetart and asking about playing in the WNBA - thus triggering this episode - is a tad dishonest? They created the “news” themselves. Now they’re promoting that “news”. I’m not sure this is generally how news outlets operate.

It’s not a “clumsy, divisive way” at all. Everyone bar those who think Reddit in real life is loving it because it turns the stupid ideology on itself. And it’s not clumsy because people have been trying to get the WNBA to clarify its position for years and they won’t. Now they’ll have to.
It’s obvious bait. I agree the WNBA should clarify their position, but as there is currently no males in the roster, it seems other issues are more pressing for the organisation. The only things I read about on Reddit is literature, BTW. And cats.

Again, it seems people are saying it would be a problem if there was a trans identifying man in the WNBA. What problem would that be, do you think?
I agree, it would be a problem.

And yet, 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.

You and others can make all the accusations you wish about how these athletes are not the right kind of people. It is all irrelevant.

It is irrelevant because the issue is there and they are bringing attention to it. Sophie Cunningham has been receiving abusive harassment for simply saying she supports female sports categories being protected.

Tell us. Who are the right people to get the WNBA to act?

Or…. 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 specidically to be removed from the league?

If your only comeback is ‘but it is causing division’, then you have nothing but weak and emotionally manipulative reasoning. Is it causing division? Yes. Because it always was going to be a divisive issue, hence some sporting federation lack the courage to do anything to protect female athletes.

Plus the ultimate outcome is ‘division’ because that is how protected sports categories work! How the fuck can you have a protected sports category for female people if the policy allows male athletes to compete.

And by the way, are you now demonising any of the female tennis players for their political views for saying that they support the same sex screening and policy that Sophie Cunningham was agreeing with? Or is it just because these basketballers are the ‘wrong type’ of people according to your political criteria and the blame rests on them because you feel you can demonise them while ignoring the fact that there are sporting federations who still have not protected female sporting categories?

Sounds more like you, personally, don’t believe female people should have a protected sports category.

No, the best way to save AND improve womens sports is to keep it female only. It is to ensure training is tailored to womens cycles for example, as fluctuating hormones means women and girls are prone to injuries at certain time of the month. It is ensuring equipment is tailored to the subtle differences in womens bodies. It is ensuring girls are as comfortable as possible in playing sports when their bodies are changing so rapidly. It is not sexualising them in skimpy outfits when men and boys get to wear comfortable clothing.

That is how womens sports is saved. Said by an ex-swimmer mom of girls.

Keeping men out of women’s sport is not a “right wing” belief. It’s a belief shared across everyone of all persuasions. The difference is right wing news outlets and organisations are more than happy to say it, report it, and act on it, whereas left wing news outlets and organisations are too scared of their own shadows to risk it. They are completely pathetic.

It’s not a “clumsy, divisive way” at all. Everyone bar those who think Reddit in real life is loving it because it turns the stupid ideology on itself. And it’s not clumsy because people have been trying to get the WNBA to clarify its position for years and they won’t. Now they’ll have to.

Again, it seems people are saying it would be a problem if there was a trans identifying man in the WNBA. What problem would that be, do you think?

And it’s helpful anyway, because a confirmation that the WNBA is just for females will filter down to College basketball, where they are recruited from. Which will filter down to high school basketball where college basketball recruits from. It’s a small step to regain sanity which the vast majority of humans on the planet believe in.

This seems to have been stirred up by, yes, a right-wing sporting activist group called OutKick (Riley Gaines is also part of this group, and they appear on the Fox network.) The quote below is from Forbes.

The current push to solidify the eligibility requirements comes after Cunningham who has been described as "MAGA Barbie" online, last month said she wants to "protect women's sports" and doesn't think people born male should be allowed into the league. Her remarks have since triggered small rallies both supporting and opposing her at WNBA games, and gained more visibility after OutKick sent a direct message to transgender French basketball player Julie Tétart asking if she'd like to play in the WNBA. Tétart, a 34-year-old who plays for Monaco in second-tier French women's basketball Ligue 2, said it would be a dream come true but reportedly added, “you have to be realistic: I'm old, and there are far better players than me!" OutKick then published an article slamming the “inclusive” WNBA for not having called up the player after her dominating season in France’s second division, and Outkick founder Clay Travis called the league "transphobic" on X.

So, Clay Travis of OutKick is actually challenging the WNBA here. He asked Julie Tetart, rather than the other way around, He doesn’t believe what he is saying (you need only go to his X profile to see that). It is entirely possible that the men that have come forward for the draft have been paid to do so.

It’s a clumsy, divisive way to force change for the WNBA, particularly as there are no current male players at all. It isn’t even an issue that required addressing.

Yup. They are going down with this ship. Kicking and screaming all the way. They have literally no choice.

Absolutely tragic.

Which i can understand on an intellectual level, but it gets more and more desperate and sad as time goes on.

TPA has committed to this agenda, and a bit like Joly, can't row back as they'd have to admit what they've done to their family.

So no, they can't think of anything more than we are all mean and wrong.

How about we discuss inequality of access and sponsorship, and widespread abuse by coaches AND men in women's sport because we are able to think about more than one issue at the same time. Or are you not?

It’s hilarious the way trans activists say “there are no trans women in the WNBA!” as if that’s a defence, when the obvious inference is it would be a problem if there were trans women in the WNBA, but because there isn’t is isn’t a problem.

Sooooo transphobic.

@LuckyAzureBird Republican U.S. Senate candidate Royce White is subject to a no-contact order after a Minnesota judge ruled there was credible evidence of threats of harm toward his ex-wife and one of two children they have together.

Gosh. I thought all transwomen were supposed to be lovely and wouldn't hurt a fly🙄

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Royce White is subject to a no-contact order after a Minnesota judge ruled there was credible evidence of threats of harm toward his ex-wife and one of two children they have together.
In court filings, White is accused of making numerous threats and being both physically and verbally abusive toward his former partner and their teenaged son. He refutes the allegations and is appealing judicial findings in the case, telling MPR News on Thursday the order is a “substantial miscarriage of justice” and “excessively punitive.”
White, a former professional basketball player who later became an online conservative activist, is running for the Senate for a second time. He was the GOP’s Senate nominee in 2024 but faces stiff party competition this time from former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya, former Navy SEAL Adam Schwarze, past Republican Party Chair David Hann and others.
The protective order against White was granted by a judge on Feb. 17 after a preliminary order was issued in December. The order requires White to stay a quarter mile away from his ex-wife and their son, including at their home, her place of work and the boy’s school. The judge did not apply the restriction to White’s daughter because a burden of proof was not met to suggest abuse or imminent threats against her.
The order for protection is in effect for 50 years in relation to his former partner and two years for the son. It also requires White to attend domestic abuse programming, undergo a mental health evaluation and comply with treatment recommendations.
Hennepin County District Court Judge Kristen Marttila wrote that White’s ex-wife “is plainly in fear” of him and “appeared to the court to be utterly at a loss for how else to gain peace from him.”

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/23/us-senate-candidate-royce-white-is-under-order-to-avoid-ex-wife-their-son-over-threats

All of these lovely ladies are more convincing than any of the members of the soon to be ex polycule.

More power to their feminine sporting elbows.

Adding Scott Fishman

so there is :

Enes Freedom
Royce White
Adam Francisco
Scott Fishman

Would it be OK if just one rider in the Men's Tour de France used an electric bike? Would we still watch? If just 11 players in the Men's World Cup took drugs?

The best way to support women's sport is to take it as seriously as men's sport.

Exactly. I do hope @TransParentlyAnnoyed hasn't done a transmisogyny.

Women's rights will continue to be completely obscured by the Somebody Else's Problem field.

we'll have to don our peril sensitive glasses - which will immediately go completely black. I have been wanting this to happen for ages, i'd really like a team completely comprised of men to turn up to matches.

It's the basketball version of Pete the plumber being played out in real life.

shrugs

Your rules, pal. Acceptance without question remember? If you are questioning people's self declaration that they're trans, that's a touch transphobic, don't you agree?

Tut tut.

Yup.
I've looked at lots of pictures of her
including in her teenage years
and when she was released from prison (which was when I first heard about her)

Non conforming women are still women.
Non conforming men are still men.

Did you look at the pictures? Quite the series of coincidences, to be 6'9" (one of only dozens of 'women' so tall in a country of 350 million people), with a male voice depth, and not the tiniest trace of typical female adiposity.

Toni Arthur had a very deep voice.

Most women in France went topless in the 70's and 80's

She will pass an SRY test

I really doubt that. Voice is just too deep.

And just like Caster Semenya, Ms Griner is not shy about being photographed topless.

https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=brittney+griner+pool+photo

Thanks for this one! It is just excellent