What do you think of former NBA players declaring for the WNBA draft?

[AviatorTom]

Two former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, have both announced they are “declaring” for the 2027 WNBA Draft, using the move to challenge the league’s gender eligibility rules. They reportedly have said that they identify themselves, temporarily, as women when playing basketball.

Here is one of several articles that have this story. This one is from Forbes magazine.

Men In The WNBA? Former NBA Stars Declare For 2027 WNBA Draft, Cite “Self Declaration”

What do you think about this?

For those unfamiliar with basketball in the US. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the men's professional league and the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is the women's professional league.

[AI Opinion]

I see it as a political stunt, not a genuine attempt to play in the WNBA 🏀

They’re exploiting a hot-button issue for attention and to mock trans and gender policies, while ignoring the reality of women’s sports and the years women grind for those limited roster spots.

It disrespects the WNBA, trivializes gender identity, and adds noise instead of solutions.

[Chazmatazz269]

I am happy for them and i hope more men do exactly that.
We are well beyond any academic arguments at this point. We have been forcing men to accept women into men only spaces for decades. They have even completely shut down boys’ high skool athletics programs because girls weren’t trying out for boys’ sports. Not because they were trying out and being rejected, mind you. The radical left decided that Title IX meant females had to be actively involved in male sports in order to receive federal funding.
It is a simple matter of fact that refusing to allow men into women only spaces is a flat out violation of the US Constitution at this point. Equal treatment under the law is codified by the 14th amendment and it has been upheld repeatedly.
If you don’t want men in women’s spaces, then you shouldn’t have forced women into men’s spaces. This is what equality looks like. You asked for it. Now you’ve got it. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

Good. That will shine extra light on how ridiculous and unreasonable the whole thing is. I also think that Trump should come out and identify as a black lesbian woman so that nobody in the future can claim the US has never had a female president, black female president, a lesbian president or black lesbisn president. The woke people would have to accept it. They say you’re whatever you identify is. So either they’re going to accept him as what he says he identifies as or their whole argument falls apart and can’t be used again.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

Good, I hope they do. It will be more of a laughingstock public stunt than their NBA careers were.

I swear some people will do anything to punch down on a minority just to make themslve feel better. I wonder if they would feel the same if some white guy decided to just start doing "blackface" in mocking them too even though that's horrific in itself.

[Cidknee]

How you figure? It's no big deal to you that males becoming trans then beat hell out of women in sports?

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

They aren't trans. They are just doing this thing your cheeto-messiah Trump does so very often, they are lying for MAGA cult members.

[MrChinaski]

People like hating people. What can you do?

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

You can shame thrm back for their actions.

[Cidknee]

No, you misunderstand, there should NOT be any trans in women's sports. This is the point they're making. There's no difference in those guys and Brittany whats-her-name except that those guys are good.

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

If that's how your transphobe mind works, I am obviously not going to be able to change it.

You are gonna applaud like a trained seal to this kind of behavior because it targets a marginalized group that you feel uncomfortable around. It makes you no better than someone who is a racist, hating on minorities for the same reason.

[Anonymous]

As long as the WNBA's governing body approves it, i'm ok with it. I mean considering how much more physical the WNBA has become over the past 20 years. And how much the physicality has lessened over the past 20 years. in the NBA. I'm fairly interested to see how Royce White reacts when he goes up for a layup or a dunk and gets clotheslined by a beefy biological woman Forward or Center.

But honestly i don't think most the WNBA players will stand for former NBA player for joining tgeir league. And i'm totally fine with that as well.

Honestly, i just find that this is where we're at as a society both comical and entertaining.

[purplepoppy]

Last year there was a spate of children in the UK identifying themselves as stupid things. One boy identified himself as a moon. They soon got bored of it and grew up. The thing is these were children, children trying to be clever and not grown ass men.

Sure their stunt will delight the usual crowd but mockery and disrespect tends to backfire, I could see a lot of people thinking twice about dealing with them in the future.

[MrChinaski]

I know someone who wrote their entire final year math thesis with suns and moons instead of x and y. I'm sure that anecdote is relevant to insert here, somehow.

[Ill_made_Knight]

Honestly I find it quite ridiculous that R's continue to act as if there's a trans problem that threatens the well being of every little girl in the country. Let these guys make fools of themselves, so what?
Something like 1% of Americans identify as trans. Things like this have always been handled on a case by case basis. It's nothing new and just another thing R's have seized on to use to make people angry, kind of like the war on Christmas that was never actually a thing.

[WhitneySnow]

They clearly don’t really identify as women. They’re subverting the gender issues of honest queer people for their own agenda. The only plus side is I think they’re doing it more for money and because they can’t compete against younger cisgender male athletes anymore than because they hate trans people.

[OlderAndWiser]

I think if that happens en masse, it will hasten the collapse of this woke joke.

[Just_Ken]

Why not? If you are really for trans rights then put it to thd test

[RachyRach]

That's just dumb. They're so much more physically dominant than women.

[canamlusciouslad73]

I identify as an HOBC ("Heartthrobby Older Black Cowboy.") May I declare for the 2027 WNBA draft?

[BCRanger10]

Pretty good troll, that is.

[Massageman]

This was a sarcastic action to show the hypocrisy of all this stuff.

[exitseven]

Too funny. They are making a statement,.

[Anonymous]

What is the purpose of them doing this?

[Cidknee]

Awe, that's so nice of them.

[Bklynbadboy12]

This is silly asf.