Nancy Mace: The WNBA? More like the Woke-BA | Opinion

The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is having a serious identity crisis. And I have had enough.

Nearly 30 years in and the league cannot define the first word in its own name. I am here to remind them. And I am not letting this go.

The WNBA was built by women, for women. Female athletes fought for the chance to compete, earn recognition and have a league of their own. Now, the league created to celebrate women is too cowardly to define one.

Think about it.

A women’s basketball league cannot answer a simple question: What is a woman?

The answer is not complicated. It should not be up for debate. It is basic biology. A woman is an adult human female. I will say it as many times as I have to.

I had to give Tim Walz, a sitting governor and someone who was one heartbeat away from the Oval Office, the same definition during an Oversight Hearing after he claimed he “didn’t understand the question.”

When did standing up for women become a controversial hot take?

Maybe it is because politicians on the left have spent years insisting men can become women. Chop your d*ck off, put on a dress, pick a new name and BAM! You are a woman now. They shoved it into our schools, our sports, our kids’ locker rooms. It is truly shocking how far the depraved made it.

Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham stood up and said what needed to be said: Girls in sports should not have to compete against biological men. She doubled down and called it common sense, despite being treated like a criminal for saying so. She is right. And she should not have to be brave for stating a biological fact.

Since then the outrage has been relentless. The mob came out on social media. The protests started outside arenas. And the WNBA convened an actual task force to figure out what a woman is. They still have no answer.

I wish I were making this up.

Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve showed up to a game against the Indiana Fever wearing a shirt reading “trans kids belong.” Hate to break it to you, Cheryl, but there is no such thing as a trans kid. The mentally ill men you are sticking up for are the reason female athletes are being sent to the hospital. You chose a side. And every female athlete on your roster deserves to know it was not theirs.

A mother and daughter were threatened with ejection from a game between the Indiana Fever and Atlanta Dream for wearing XX-XY shirts. Security told them someone found the shirts offensive and they had to cover up or leave. A mother and her daughter. Cover up or leave. Those were the options at a women’s sporting event for believing women are women.

This is what it has come to.

Former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declared for the WNBA draft to prove a point. The league declared them ineligible. But here is the thing: The WNBA’s own collective bargaining agreement states “Only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.” It does not go into any further detail. Both men identified as women. So by the left’s own logic, what is the problem?

Let’s also not forget Freedom getting thrown out of a WNBA game while wearing a shirt with the definition of a woman.

I do not know how protecting girls in their own sports became hateful. But here we are.

Call me whatever you want. Biological men do not belong in women’s sports. Nothing will ever convince me otherwise.

This is not about hate. It is about reality. And I refuse to pretend otherwise.

The WNBA has a choice. It can keep holding task force meetings, attacking its own fans and pretending a question every first grader can answer is somehow too complicated for a room full of sports executives. Or it can remember why it exists.

The WNBA was built by women. It belongs to women and only women.

Nancy Mace is a Republican representative for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District.

The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.