Bruce "Caitlyn" Jenner occupies a strange spot in the whole trans debate. The former Olympic decathlete decided later in life that he identified as a woman and mutilated his body accordingly. Yet, he has consistently taken a more conservative line on men in women's sports than your average LGBTQ activist. So, credit where it’s due. On the question of who belongs in women's athletics, Jenner lands on the right answer more often than most Democrats.
His latest subject, not surprisingly, is the WNBA, which is currently trying to sort out whether it will accept "transgender women," which is to say men, into the league. Two former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, separately attempted to join the WNBA while that question sat unresolved. Neither identifies as transgender, which is almost certainly why the league turned them down, but the point landed anyway, and the issue isn’t going away.
"They're showing the hypocrisy of what's going on out there in the WNBA," Jenner said during an appearance on Fox News @ Night with host Trace Gallagher.
Jenner called the fix "simple." He described WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert's position as unresolved, paraphrasing her as saying the league "talked about the trans issue but we just haven't come up with a conclusion at this point." His proposed rule requires no committee and no consultants.
"Cathy, XX, you're in. XY you're out. It's that simple," he said.
Caitlyn Jenner: “XX you’re in, XY you’re out. It’s that simple.”
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Caitlyn responds to recent WNBA backlash over its handling of Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham's gender eligibility stance and transgender debate
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As a matter of biology, he's right. Human sex is set genetically at conception. An XX chromosome pair produces a female, and an XY pair produces a male, aside from rare genetic disorders, which are disorders, not proof of other genders.
There is nothing here to study. It should be that simple.
The league's own paperwork agrees with him. Article XIII, Section 1(a) of the WNBA's collective bargaining agreement states, "Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA."
However, some argue that the league never defines "woman" or "women," and the words "transgender" and "gender identity.” The reason for that is that when the WNBA was founded 30 years ago, none of this gender identity and transgender garbage was part of the public conversation. So, at the time, it wasn’t an issue because everyone inherently understood and accepted that men and women are different and biology matters. So, the WNBA already has an eligibility rule that settles the question: the league is for women. The confusion at the commissioner's office is entirely self-inflicted.
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The issue won't disappear just because Kanter Freedom and White were shown the door. Julie Tetart, a male French basketball star who identifies as a woman, wants to play in the WNBA. Sooner or later the league will face an applicant it can't wave off as a stunt, and "we just haven't come up with a conclusion" will collapse on contact.
And the stakes are real. Every roster spot handed to a man is taken from a woman who spent her life earning it. That we're debating this at all is mind-boggling.
Here's where Jenner loses me. His entire pitch assumes the WNBA's problem is a lack of clarity, as if Engelbert simply hasn't heard about chromosomes. Does anyone believe that? The people running the league know exactly what a woman is. So does every activist pressuring them. They refuse to say it out loud because the left's ideology forbids it. To the left, feelings outrank biology, and affirming a biological man's gender identity matters more than protecting the women's game.
Biology was never the obstacle.
Make no mistake about it, Jenner thinks he's offering the league a solution, like he’s revealing something that isn’t plainly obvious to everyone, when what he's actually exposing is how little he understands the left's investment in trans ideology. This should be a simple issue. The left refuses to see it that way.
Chromosomes are a fact, and facts are exactly what the ideology exists to override. Until Jenner grasps that, he'll keep handing the WNBA answers to a question it is determined never to ask.
