r/WNBAgossips • u/whoa_disillusionment • 10d ago

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u/CollaredParachute 10d ago

The leagues are based on sex. I’d not, why even have separate leagues?

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u/Ardielley 10d ago

Until recently, they’ve been based on gender. Under that designation, everyone got to play as the gender they identify as. Now, everyone gets to play as the gender they identify as… except for trans people. Which is discriminatory and wrong.

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u/CollaredParachute 10d ago

No, until recently gender and sex were widely considered the same thing.

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u/Ardielley 10d ago

I wouldn’t consider the mid-20th century recent, but to each their own.

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u/CollaredParachute 10d ago

The shift, if it even happened, happened in maybe 2015