WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has caused more confusion by telling Congress that Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are “both men” and therefore ineligible for the league. In her letter, dated October 16 and released Monday, she refused to supply the definition of “woman” that lawmakers asked for. This lack of clarity is hurting the WNBA. It’s the usual conundrum leftists create: they establish a measurement without revealing how they measure. They dance around the truth because they’re afraid of it. That fear is alienating both men and women who might otherwise watch the WNBA. Engelbert answered a September inquiry from Rep. Marlin Stutzman and four other House Republicans. Freedom and White had announced they would enter the 2027 WNBA Draft while stating they identify as women. Engelbert wrote that “only women are eligible to play in the WNBA and the individuals you cite in your letter are both men.” No further standard was given. This is the same league that has called transgender eligibility complex and nuanced and that has never published a clear biological definition for its women’s category. When the question was whether biological males who identify as women could play, the league treated the answer as unsettled. When those same biological males forced the issue by declaring for the draft, the commissioner had no difficulty classifying them as men. The inconsistency is the point Freedom has pressed. A league that will not define the category it claims to protect cannot consistently enforce who belongs in it. Engelbert’s letter shows the league can identify men when it wants to exclude them. It has not shown the same willingness to define the women the league is supposed to serve. Women’s sports require clear, enforceable categories. Refusing to define the category while selectively applying it creates exactly the confusion and selective enforcement Freedom has highlighted. Engelbert’s letter makes that selective standard public. The WNBA still has not explained the rule it just applied.