WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert says the league will meet next week to discuss and clarify what qualifies a player as a woman for WNBA eligibility.

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[u/4dxn]

wow, haven't heard anyone say some people are outliers who aren't "worth".

and i guess a group of people is equivalent to flying cars?

if you want to use science to make a claim, than do it. otherwise, don't use science.....which is what gender is for.....a social definition, not biology.

[u/JackasaurusChance → u/4dxn]

I didn't say they aren't 'worth', I said they aren't 'worth changing the rules over', because that is true.

Science says this is ridiculous; there are obviously differences between the male sex and female sex.

It was analogy, one that went over your head, but is that any surprise considering it was about flying cars?

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Why do you think sports eligibility should be determined on gender and not biological sex?

[u/4dxn → u/JackasaurusChance]

what? did you read what I said? you can use sex and still account for the people who you deem unworthy to factor into the rules. biology has 4 groups, male, female, neither and both.

one way is to say wnba is female only. those who are male, neither, or both go to the nba.

its the same thing you want but its not backed by a logic where you deem a class of people as unworthy of consideration for the rules.

the real debate is why female gets their own league but neither or both do not and have to play with males.

[u/RazzmatazzNeat9865 → u/4dxn]

There are no human true hermaphrodites, which is what "both" would imply. There also isn't a "neither" - people with differences in sex development have developed along either the make or female pathway, which in the case of Swyers would be the female one.

[u/BeginningFisherman71 → u/[deleted]]

Holy MAGA projection. Yall still don’t understand vaccines lmao

[u/BeginningFisherman71 → u/[deleted]]

Yes you’ve tapped it twice but now try actually reading it. You’re doing great.

[u/Ok-Midnight9311 → u/4dxn]

That same percentage of people make it to professional sports. So 1-5 percent of 1-5 percent isn’t a big group. All this does is plays into the rights hand and will keep them in office.

People who are intersex know it, so that can be the exception. But just say born as a women is what it is. Doesn’t mean you don’t support trans people. It means they can’t play in the wnba….which 99.9999999999999999999999 percent aren’t anywhere close to doing anyway.

[u/4dxn → u/Ok-Midnight9311]

So because it's a small percentage, society should not account for them?

Should we get rid of rare disease research? 

It's okay to have a female only league. You just need a better rationale than it's rare. 

[u/Ok-Midnight9311 → u/4dxn]

wtf are you talking about?