Vet who takes her oath seriously💙

Enes Kanter and Royce White have declared for the WNBA Draft. And the right-wing meida is lapping this up as the greatest "gotcha" in the history of gotchas. In their mind, they are exposing the "loophole" that "all you have to do is say you're a woman," and you can circumvent the barrier between men and women, and take over women's sports. I'd like to point out that the only other times the right cares about the WNBA are when white women get fouled hard or when players ask to be paid more equitably than the NBA. But that's another conversation. The problem with Kanter and White's "gotcha" is that there are no trans women in the WNBA. Layshia Clarendon identifies as trans, but they identify as nonbinary and was assigned female at birth. The only professional women's basketball player I can find is Julie Tétart, a trans woman who plays for Monaco Basket Association in Ligue Féminine 2 (LF2), France's second-tier women's league. She's about 6'3" and 34 years old. Men pretending to be trans women are hardly "taking over" the sport. There is not now, and never has been, a trans woman who plays Division 1 college basketball, either. Only one trans woman has ever played college basketball at any level. That was Gabbi Ludwig, who at the age of 50 played for Mission College, a Community College team in 2013. She did well, but she spent 5 years on hormone therapy before playing, and her team didn't win the championship. That's hardly the same thing as what White and Kanter are doing. Prior to Trump's executive order, there were only an estimated 10 trans athletes in all of college sports. (That's not a count; it's an estimate) There are about 540,000 athletes in the NCAA. That comes out to 0.00196%. To put that in perspective, imagine a half-gallon bucket filled with dried grains of rice, with one of them painted blue. Your chances of reaching into the bucket and finding that one grain of rice in your first grab are about equal to that of finding any trans athlete in college sports. That includes trans women, trans men, and people who identify as nonbinary. The entire premise of Kanter's and White's stunt is to "expose" the loophole that all a man has to do is say they're a woman, and they can dominate the WNBA. But that's not happening. So the only real point appears to be just a plea for attention at the cost of the most marginalized group of people in America: The transgender community. So what can the WNBA? Easy. Just don't draft them.