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

[LesbianNana]

I can’t wait to see who drafts my girl Enes Kanter Freedom. 😂

In a video, the former New York Knicks and Boston Celtics star said: 'After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect.

'If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.

'My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA’s eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in April 2027.”

”See you at training camp.”

https://www.dailymail.com/sport/wnba/article-16037187/enkanter-wnba-draft-trans-debate.html

The BBC article, as with most other articles, talks about barring transgender athletes rather than what Sophie actually said which was men should be barred

She later doubled down on her comments, saying it was "common sense", external to bar transgender athletes from competing in women's sports.

Does anyone follow wokeandwoofing on X? I recommend you do!

Latest comment:

"Disgraceful. You are just pretending you want to cheat at sport, in order to make fun of people who genuinely want to cheat at sport."

It is a more than a bit dishonest of BBC to disconnect that paragraph from the sentence above.

“She said she wanted to "extend love" to everyone, but added: "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."”

“She later doubled down on her comments, saying it was "common sense" to bar transgender athletes from competing in women's sports.”

No BBC! She only ever referred to the ‘biological men’. Disconnecting the sentences like that really makes it open for misrepresentation.

White sounds scarily convincing. He must be "trans" with insights like this.

“It Was the Transgender Trapped Inside of Me”: Royce White Explains His Fear of Flying Days After WNBA Declaration

https://www.essentiallysports.com/nba-legends-wnba-basketball-news-it-was-the-transgender-trapped-inside-of-me-royce-white-explains-his-fear-of-flying-days-after-wnba-declaration/

Enes Kanter Freedom's WNBA Letter Only Has 1 Realistic Outcome
The WNBA must act quickly to move forward from the discourse surrounding transgender participation, and there's only one course of action to take.

https://www.si.com/onsi/womens-fastbreak/news/enes-kanter-freedom-wnba-letter-has-1-realistic-outcome

It’s never explained. In particular the ‘progressive left’ can never explain is why the genuine left wing readership of the Morning Star (peace & socialism ✌) are sex realists. Sex class analysis, a key part of class analysis, can’t exist without acknowledgement of the sex binary and the impact of it on society through human history.

It’s the ‘progressive left’ and the TRAs who are massively right wing. This can’t be said enough.

Yup, trying to paint gender critical beliefs as right wing is American cultural imperialism. In the UK, our most reliably GC political parties are far left. The Communists have been plugging away at this for years.

Couldn't agree more. What it does do is show up what a bunch of shysters the Parliamentary Labour Party currently is, although they probably don't reflect the views of Party members, with only a handful of exceptions. How can a movement which exalts the rights of the individual over the common good be left-wing?

😂😂😂

Interesting to see that the Sports Illustrated/Women's Fastbreak article , linked to by Helleofabore
https://www.si.com/onsi/womens-fastbreak/news/enes-kanter-freedom-wnba-letter-has-1-realistic-outcome

is in favour of basketball following the lead of other sporting bodies and testing to ID biological men/women
This is basically the same policy that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has adopted going forward. And while there are definitely some who oppose this, there are more supporters than detractors for both the WTA and the IOC policies.

BabaYagasHouse linked to another very interesting article, which points out that the WNBA already had a bio female transgender player, without controversy:
www.theknownheretic.com/p/why-is-nobody-talking-about-layshia

so the issue is not, as SC says, about trans players in women's basketball, been there done that, it's about male players in women's basketball.

BBC et al., please note🙄

Sci**logy, apparently, has the cure for trapped souls causing us harm, although the full therapy is quite expensive, I believe.

Still realizing you have a trapped trans inside you is a powerful insight. It might explain my fear of heights.

Absolutely fucking pathetic.

Yes you're quite right. The current WNBA's eligibility criteria is fucking pathetic. Or did you mean something else?

There are 28 trans athletes in one state alone. And you say 9 like it's no big deal. One, is ONE TOO MANY.

Misogynistic males are already taking the piss out of women's sport, and our spaces. By making it more blatantly obvious, the good males are proving a point. Any male, no matter how they identify, in women's sport or spaces is taking the piss. That's the entire point.

I think the poster means that it is ‘fucking pathetic’ for men to take the piss out of men who are taking the piss out of women, which doesn’t really hold water as a philosophical position.

You’ve almost got to admire the bravado of these deeply right wing TRAs, though. Take Jojo Maugham - he’s pretty much installation art these days.

These men are not "taking the piss out of women's sport" and this is not a misogynistic act.

These men are standing up for women.

White responds to demands he takeshormones.

Royce White 🇺🇸

Don't tell me how to be a Black woman! Taking hormones are optional. The idea that a Trans woman has to subject herself to BIG PHARMA, is just another way for cis normative people to turn us into a commodity. I’m an ALL NATURAL Black trans lesbian with a penile aesthetic.

Royce White for U.S. Senate MN 2026
WNBA #LetHerPlay

I’m an ALL NATURAL Black trans lesbian with a penile aesthetic.

What a bloke 🤣

He could also have gone down the 'We don't owe you femininity' route, like the TW who say that their beards, deep voices, male genitalia etc are no reason for them not to be 100% accepted as 100% women.
But what he said is funnier

Brilliant. Though I doubt he, sorry she, will be able to come up with something so ludicrous that no trans identifying male has already said it.

He's really embracing his new found woman essence isn't he?! The absolutely brilliant thing is he's not saying anything that hasn't already been said on Planet TRA - he and the others are shining a great big spotlight onto the whole nonsense of men taking women's places in sport and showing it exactly for what it is.

Dp said he'd failed by not giving it a 'girlfriend' with hand wave.

I struggled with whether this was a tad racist but in the end just laughed, given what Royce had already said.

I think you'll find that she failed. Can we please give Royce the respect she deserves and use her correct pronouns?

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Whoops, mea culpa!

the good males are proving a point.

As is one bad male with a restraining order against him for abusing his wife and child. He's proving the point better than anyone else is. But let's not pretend that he's a "good male". He's doing this to assist his political ambitions. Bad people can do good things for bad reasons.

Bad people can also do good things for good reasons.