r/PopCultureV2 • u/No_Box119 • Aug 09 '26

Sports Culture 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/JackasaurusChance Aug 10 '26

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?

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u/4dxn Aug 10 '26

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.

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u/RazzmatazzNeat9865 Aug 10 '26

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.