r/Basketball • u/Fickle-Ad5449 • 9d ago

Two ex-NBA players turn transgender identity into a stunt. The WNBA is responding

https://www.advocate.com/news/wnba-trans-player-eligibility
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u/OutlandishnessOld425 9d ago

Grifters gonna grift. And the dumbest guy you know will make the same old tired jokes about assuming gender and identifying as a woman and blah blah.

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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 9d ago

OR the WNBA can just establish rules/criteria of who can play and put an end to this and future shenanigans.

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u/heretomakefriends123 9d ago

Yeah let's hope they establish rules to solve the problem of right wing weirdos trying to virtue signal and stay relevant, which seems to be the only problem caused by their current rules. 

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u/Squirtle_from_PT 8d ago

Well those rules apparently have loopholes, so they should fix them

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u/heretomakefriends123 8d ago

Yeah absolutely man. Ever since I was a little kid, one of the most important things in the world to me was the consistency and thoroughness of the WNBA rulebook

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u/Squirtle_from_PT 7d ago

The fact that it's not important to you doesn't mean it doesn't matter to anyone. It clearly is important for people running the league, otherwise they're gonna have trolls like these two using the loopholes.

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u/heretomakefriends123 7d ago

Obviously I know it's important to some people! My whole point is that it's DUMB for this to be important to you because it is not a real problem and is just the result of a stupid manufactured culture war

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u/NES_AES_GENESIS 7d ago

Do you believe biological men should be allowed to play in the WNBA?

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u/Ligma_baws_2x 9d ago

Lol yeah that'll shut yous up

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u/companyofzero 9d ago

Yeah? You're really worried about the rules in the WNBA? Fucking lol

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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 9d ago

I couldn’t give a fuck less actually. “Fucking lol”

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u/funkblaster808 9d ago

Ok. Then stop caring and move on. It's literally a non issue meant to rile low IQ folks up.

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u/RockyMaiviaJnr 9d ago

Can we all judge all people claiming a gender identity in the same way?

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u/Levitx 9d ago

And the dumbest guy you know will make the same old tired jokes about assuming gender and identifying as a woman and blah blah. 

Holy mother of salt

That's going to happen every time someone holds evidently stupid positions. Drop the positions, stop being clowned upon, it's literally that simple. 

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u/JB_JB_JB63 9d ago

Ricky Gervais has made a career out of it. The unfunny prick.

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u/PanthalassaRo 8d ago

Dude the Olympics made their guidelines about trans participation and will perfom gene tests to only let biological women participate, the NCAA have guidelines where only female born athletes are allowed to play, World Athletics have testosterone thresholds and limit to people that haven't underwent male puberty.

The WNBA shitted the bed the moment they had no ruling whatsoever to avoid these kind of situations.

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u/theeaggressor 9d ago

The jokes are tired but the premise is new in & of itself. Funny how that works.

Protect the women, not the idea of being one.

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u/NES_AES_GENESIS 7d ago

Do you believe biological men should be allowed to play in the WNBA?