The WNBA’s inclusivity claim just met its first stress test: NBA players

The WNBA says that it welcomes all players, and Enes Kanter, a former NBA player, wants to call their bluff. A lot of WNBA players are lesbians, and are impacted by this debate on fairness in sport, so here's the lesbian's take on this issue. 

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So get this, three former NBA players have come out advising that they have checked in with the WNBA guidelines, and based on what what's outlined there, they are eligible to play in the Women's Basketball League. Enos Cantor is one of the three NBA players who announced that he would be declaring himself as a WNBA prospect for the 2027 draft. And you would think that I, as a lesbian who cares very much about women's rights, would be enraged about this. But I think this move, right, on Ines' part clearly demonstrates how ridiculous it is for a woman's professional sport organization to define every single term right in their guidelines, except for what a woman is. Now everybody wants to make this about trans, right? But this has absolutely nothing to do with identity, right? Because there will always be females with trans identities playing in women's professional sports. So as long as you're not taking testosterone, you would be able to play in women's professional sports. Right? You just can't take testosterone because that would give you an unfair advantage, right? So trans athletes can play sports right now. They just have to play sports on the team of their biological sex. No one is banned, no one is excluded. But you know, I also want to make it clear that at the end of the day, I think everybody should be able to play sports. And as I said, everybody can play sports. But it is important to separate categories by sex because biological men have a very, very clear advantage. And yeah, sure, there's some people that will say, oh, hormone therapy, it equalizes everything. But they're either very ignorant to all the differences between males and females, or they are purposefully choosing to ignore the scientific evidence that supports that division along the lines of sex when we're talking about sports. One of the biggest differences that I like to point out, because there is no changing this, is bone structure. I think this is a very clear way to literally demonstrate how unfair it is. Not only do males have higher bone density, but they have narrow pelvises. Like the female body is built around the ability to give birth. But men, they don't have that problem, so they have narrow pelvises that create a straighter, more vertical alignment, right, for their leg bones. And what this results in is that it amplifies their ability to utilize force. So in other words, they can run faster, they can jump higher, they can hit harder. And this is fact. The inclusion of males in the female category of sport is not only unfair, but there are risks to female athletes facing off against the opposite sex. And it's like the primary reason why World Rugby released new guidelines in 2020 limiting women's rugby to female athletes. And this guidance was 45 pages long, and it was based on comprehensive scientific evidence that was gathered by multiple experts. And the findings were clear, okay, that they found that there was a significant risk to safety and wellness to female athletes who competed against the opposite sex in rugby. Now, at the end of the day, you might be wondering, Emce, why are you talking about this issue on a podcast for lesbians? And I'll tell you why. Pick any sport. You're bound to find an abundance of lesbians. The WNBA, for example, has more lesbians in it than a dinosaur weekend. So yes, this issue matters because it directly affects a lot of lesbians. Lesbians, for some reason, we're so drawn to sports. We all love to play sports. And something else that I did want to flag is that I think a lot of lesbian athletes, right, we'll see them on the TV or TikTok or YouTube right now, they don't want to play against biological men. But they keep saying that they would. And I think similar to the influx of societal pressure that's placed on lesbians to include biological men in lesbianism, there's that same pressure that's applied in sports. In general, women, we have been placed in a very unfortunate position where if we state our boundaries or if we say no, we are bullied, we're harassed, or we're wrongly labeled as TERFs just for saying no, or just for saying I have a concern. You know, there's absolutely nothing radical about the truth. And you would think that science and objective truths would make a woman feel comfortable voicing what they know is right and what they know is to be true. But humans, we are social creatures. And female athletes, they see and they remember what happened to Martina Nadarilova. I hope I said her name right when she spoke up, right? She lost a whole host of deals, right? And then right now we see what's happening to Sophie Cunningham in the WNBA. She is being bullied. She's being bullied and harassed, and there's nothing that the league is doing to support her. They've basically, the whole league has basically said, Sophie, we don't care about you. You've created a problem for us, and we don't support you. When literally she's sticking up for the foundation of their league. You you want to say that this is made up, but I don't know. Like, this shouldn't even be a debate. I think everybody would be super supportive of the creation of a third category for sports for individuals who don't want to participate in the category for their biological sex. The Paralympics were created to give opportunities for athletes with disabilities. Why not create a league for trans identifying athletes? Well, like I have an idea why. And it's because this isn't about sports. This is about validation. But women are not tools for validation. Women are human beings, and the adverse impacts to women will continue to add up if the professional sports organizations like the WNBA do not advocate for female athletes. What is the message they're really sending right now? What is the message they're sending to all these female basketball players who've spent their whole lives training? The message is clear. We don't care about you. And so, yeah, I am actually quite supportive of all the NBA players throwing their hat in the ring to join the WNBA because you know what? It's gonna force the organization to either follow the Olympics or the World Tennis or Association because they both made the decision to do gene testing. So they either will have to follow suit with the Olympics and the World Tennis Association, or we're gonna start to see males participating in women's basketball. And frankly, I'm not sure that the viewership of the WNBA will stick around, right? Like they gained a whole bunch of new viewers because of Caitlin Clark, and I don't think that that new viewership will stick around to watch biological men decimate women in basketball. The whole point of sports, it's not inclusion. The whole point of sports is winning. And the moment there is unfairness, no one wants to watch that. Nobody really wants to watch anything where there's punching down. So, you know, all I can say is I've seen some clips of Julia Tarte. Julia Tarte plays in Monaco, and Julia Tarte is dominating women's basketball in France, and it's just so unfair. I don't want to watch that. I couldn't cheer for a team like that. That's something I literally can't support because it's just unfair. So seriously, the WNBA needs to get its priorities straight. The league was created specifically to give female basketball players opportunity. And so, what is the point of having the WNBA if there isn't a female category? I don't know. But what I do know is that I'm about to watch the Indiana Fever next week. I got myself a Sophie Cunningham. It's official, an official Sophie Cunningham t-shirt and a fever snapback. And I'm super excited to watch Clark and Cunningham play. I support Sophie. Uh, the way that she's been attacked and villainized for supporting women is peak misogyny. And, you know, that's all I have to say about this. And now I'm gonna go to my personal updates. I am 50,000 words into level up Lex, and my thought is that this series is gonna be one of the most soul-crushing lesbian books to hit the market. Uh, other updates is that, hey guys, it seems that the MC cancellation train has failed uh last month in July. I sold 630 audiobooks, which is the most I've sold in a month to date. Uh, and there's, I have to say, there's a special feeling of glee that I get knowing that my haters can hate all they want and I will still succeed. I'm going all in on lesbian, and my ultimate goal is to create a community for lesbians. Speaking of which, I recently found an online forum that is only for lesbians, and they screen out anyone who isn't a lesbian. It's called Lesbotronic. Uh, I'm planning to do an episode where I talk about the forum in more detail so y'all can learn about it and see if it's something that you might want to join. And, you know, I'm not religious, but Lord knows lesbians, we need real community for us online. It's like every single subreddit or forum labeled as a lesbian is anything but lesbian. You know, my heart hit goes out to the younger generation of lesbians who have to navigate all this homophobic bullcrap on the internet. And that's why I started this podcast, right? Um, you know, and already I can tell that lesbians are appreciating it. I got some fan mail thanking me for the episode I did on the cotton ceiling fallacy. And, you know, so if you appreciate this podcast, I would love to hear from you. You could drop me some fan mail, you can send me an email. I want to know, you know, why is lesbianism important to you? I want to know if you have any ideas on how we can rebuild the lesbian community. And remember, if you like this podcast and you want to support me, there are many ways to do that. Like, you can leave this podcast a review, give it a like, give it a follow. You can also follow me on Instagram, or you can become a member on my Patreon where I put a lot of like free writing. So you can like read my writing there. I'm also on Substack where I just like rant. Um, or you can even buy my books. My books are a mighty good time, really fun, and they're super lesbian. And anyhow, I just want to say I'm sending all my love to every lesbian who's listening. You can stay loud, stay proud, talk soon.