Where sex is concerned, human reproductive biology is pretty standard: Humans are sexually bipolar, with two sexes, male and female. This is determined genetically at conception; barring a few rare and usually debilitating genetic disorders, an XX chromosome pair results in a female, and an XY pair, a male.
That's just how it is. These are facts. And another fact is that the XY pairing gives the resulting child and, in time, adult, a significant advantage in sports. Now, the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) doesn't seem to understand that, especially with regards to "trans-women" - men - playing in their league.
Now, no less than Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, has sounded off on just that genetic reality as the solution to the WNBA's confusion.
Caitlyn Jenner reacted to how the WNBA has navigated its latest controversy over whether transgender athletes would be eligible to play in the league.
The WNBA has lacked clarity on whether a transgender athlete would be able to play in the league. In the midst of it all, former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White each launched bids to get into the WNBA.
Jenner appeared on "Fox News @ Night" with Trace Gallagher and said there was a "simple" conclusion to the ordeal.
"They’re showing the hypocrisy of what’s going on out there in the WNBA," Jenner said of Kanter and White. "The WNBA had their meetings on this issue and Cathy (Engelbert), the head, says, ‘We talked about the trans issue but we just haven’t come up with a conclusion at this point. We will continue the conversation.’ Cathy, XX, you’re in. XY you’re out. It’s that simple."
That makes an inordinate amount of good sense, which probably means that the WNBA will ignore it.
Here's what is apparently causing the WNBA so many headaches:
The WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement’s Article XIII, Section 1(a) states: "Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA." But as OutKick/Fox News Digital previously reported, the 409-page agreement never defines "woman" or "women." The terms "transgender" and "gender identity" don’t appear anywhere in the document.
And that's a problem... Why? Even if we allow that "transgender women" may claim to be female, their genetics and the abilities that come along with those genetics are an objective argument otherwise. In much of any person's everyday life, that doesn't make much difference, but in sports, well, it makes a big difference, and even a "transgender" former Olympic athlete knows this, by intuition as much as anything else. Now, Caitlyn Jenner will probably be lambasted as being "transphobic" over this matter, if that hasn't happened already. But that's not really relevant. Jenner's assertion here is exactly correct. The WNBA's rule book never defined "woman" or "women" because there was no need to. A person with two X chromosomes is a woman. Anyone else is not, no matter what they claim, and any qualifier added to "woman" such as "transgender woman" (a man) disqualifies them from playing in the WNBA.
Allowing these people to play on women's leagues is unfair. It's unfair to the women who have worked long and hard to reach the professional level in their sport. Now, two men, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, are apparently lampooning this fuzzy-headedness of the WNBA to join the league themselves, and that may be a great illustration of not only the biological advantages men have in sport, but also the depths to which the WNBA will sink to avoid the shrieked charges of "transphobia." And, predictably, the WNBA isn't allowing them to play. That's good - they shouldn't - but the ridiculous point is that they weren't precluded for being men, they were precluded for not being sufficiently transgender. There's no objectivity in that. There's no biological standard in that.
Jenner's answer is the correct one. It's objective. It's based in science. XX is a woman. That's it. That's biology. That's fact. That's the answer. It's the only acceptable answer. Have done with it, WNBA.
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