“Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.” — Kindergarten Cop (1990)

Cheryl Miller & the WNBA in 2026: “Shut up that noise!”

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Last evening, August 12, was the first time ESPN discussed in print the WNBA 2026 CBA failure to codify transgender issues. It reads, “The WNBA has no publicly available policy governing eligibility of transgender or intersex athletes. The 2026 collective bargaining agreement signed in March states that ‘only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.’ There is no further definition of a woman.”

This issue has been brought to a head by Enes Kanter now proclaiming himself/herself to be a woman and declaring for the 2027 WNBA draft. Sophie Cunningham can no longer be scapegoated on transgender policy, so the WNBA is in crisis mode.

The WTA & LPGA have specifically defined a woman and have codified testing & criteria for tour eligibility. Therefore it would be impossible for Tiger Woods to join the LPGA tour, or for Roger Federer to compete in the WTA. The WTA/LPGA would flatly tell these athletes they are welcome to compete on their tours as long as they can meet their eligibility requirements, which they won’t be able to do, so no one tries a stunt like this with these organizations. The WNBA opened themselves up to this form of ridicule by playing identity politics instead of basketball.

Yesterday, the WNBA called an emergency meeting of its board of governors, a so-called “anti-hate task force” to combat online criticism, such as Enes Kanter’s stunt. To be clear Enes Kanter isn’t serious about playing in the WNBA, he/she is forcing the WNBA to do something it hasn’t wanted to do up until now– define a woman. As soon as the WNBA does that, Enes Kanter (& the rest) will transition back into being a man.

With that said, Enes Kanter has declared himself/herself a woman and WNBA draft eligible, so we have to take him/her seriously otherwise we are being transphobic. These are the rules the WNBA plays by, which have now tangled them up. This issue can’t be resolved until WNBA & WNBAPA representatives sit down and hammer this out after the season– at the earliest.

This should have been taken care of from November 1, 2025 to March 23-24, 2026 when the WNBA CBA was being negotiated, but clearly there were no adults in the room. Only Sophie Cunningham made her thoughts known on the transgender issue at the time (February), but her comments mysteriously weren’t published until July 21, 2026, when she was made the target of an ESPN hit piece.

As explained here, this “trans rights” issue is stalking horse politics from the Democrats who want to push everything to the right. Democrats are two factions. The CIA Democrats– moderates & conservatives– represent the true power of the party. These are the ‘blue dog’ Democrats. The liberal Democrat faction represents identity politics, and is a tool– which most people recognize & despise. CIA Democrats saddle DEI Democrats with these stalking horses such as “trans rights”, handing victory to the right wing of their party, or to Trump. The idea is that any socialist agenda is always squelched, slandered & marginalized by conservative money & power.

For example, liberal Democrat Francesca Hong just lost her primary bid for Wisconsin governor to replace conservative Tony Avers who is retiring. Francesca Hong, a state lawmaker, was favored and well-ahead in all the polls for weeks before Tuesday’s primary on a program of Medicare for all, abolishing ICE and raising taxes on the rich. But brutal waves of never-ending conservative attack ads, particularly on trans men in women’s locker rooms, soured Wisconsin voters on her and she lost by a razor thin margin to a black moderate– David Crowley. Republicans joined in against Francesca Hong in this Democratic primary. That’s the right wing of both parties, using a fake left stalking horse to make sure a fake socialist candidate doesn’t win the Wisconsin gubernatorial race. Real socialism is, of course, completely blacklisted.

This is how everything the WNBA is doing ties into the bigger picture. Everything the WNBA does politically is meant to discredit the left. The WNBA is fake left to its core. No one who believes in abolishing ICE, universal health care, or raising taxes on the rich has trouble distinguishing a man from a woman, yet that’s the DEI Democratic message. Liberal Democrats won’t admit XX doesn’t equal XY for these political reasons.

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