The woke experiment in women-s sport has reached its absurd conclusion

The woke experiment in women-s sport has reached its absurd conclusion

From Olympic boxing to the WNBA, gender ideology is colliding with the basic realities of athletic competition
Cristiano Ronaldo told an interviewer this past weekend that 2026-27 could be his last season. I half-expected him to add: As a man. But he’s unlikely to show up in the Irish Women’s Premier League, for now. Yet there’s a European flavor to the latest ‘thing’ to hit the American sports scene, where two men have ‘become women’ in order to prove a point.
Slam Dunk for WokeThe Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has never had a more remarkable season than the current one. There was DiJonnai Carrington’s bad sportswomanship in posting White Privilege on her X account shortly after being ejected from a game for clotheslining Sophie Cunningham, and the ensuing racebaiting and stupidity that accompanied it. However, it was the latter woman who suffered the wrath of the wokerati when she said in a July ESPN article that she wants to protect little girls from having to compete against or undress in locker rooms next to biological men.
The ‘cause’ was taken up by grifters of all persuasions, the provocateurs who genuinely whip up fear that there’s a flood of men identifying as women for the fun of it, and the just-as-demented mob who believe that what you identify as matters more than using a single brain cell. Cunningham, for her part, has been an ally of the LGBT community, and many players in the WNBA have backed her. However, the wokerati weren’t with her.
Earlier this month, 6-foot-3 center Julie Tétart, who destroyed the 2nd tier of French pro basketball last season, stated that if an offer to play in the WNBA were to come in, it would be considered. The biological male, who averaged 21.2 points and 20.2 rebounds per game in 2025-26 has never played in the NCAA or any top European league. In fact, just a few years ago, ‘they’ were an average player in the 5th tier of French men’s basketball. After coming out as a transwoman in 2021, Tétart took off three years from the sport before returning to play for the Monaco Basket Association as a woman.
The grifters on all sides took delight in pushing Julie’s willingness to play in the WNBA because their rules state that you simply have to be a ‘woman’ to be eligible. And that’s when this sh1t just got real to quote Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys 2, when two bad boys entered the scene.
Farce imitating Farcical FictionI can’t vouch for Bad Boys 2 as I didn’t see it, but I can tell you that 2002’s Juwanna Mann is way too close to the mark for anyone who loves the sport. In the fictional version of what is transpiring now: a down-on-his-luck male basketball player slaps on some lipstick and a wig to earn a place in the top women’s league. In today’s real world simulation, two former NBA players, Royce White (35) and Enes Kanter Freedom (34),have said they’re women, or identify as such for the purposes of playing basketball, and have declared for the WNBA draft in 2027. And it could only be these two, for now, who would do such a thing.
Read more Freedom is a Swiss-born Turkish player taken 3rd overall in the 2011 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz. The 6-foot-10 center played 11 years in the NBA, averaging 11.2 points per game. In 2016, he called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the Hitler of our century and became the subject of arrest warrants from Ankara. He has slammed China, supports Israel, and after getting US citizenship, said that he plans to run for Congress in 2028.
Minnesota-born White was the 16th overall pick in 2012 by the Houston Rockets but only played three NBA games, for the Sacramento Kings. With self-confessed anxiety issues, a fear of flying, and decades of issues with the law, the 6-foot-8 power forward has also slammed China, joined Black Lives Matter protests, and as a Rep