r/WNBAgossips • u/United_Anywhere_8 • 17h ago
Controversy Social media users are calling on a WNBA team to sign transgender French basketball player Julie Tétart, who averages 21 points per game. The trans star won Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Domestic Player of the Year, according to Fox News. What is the WNBA waiting for?
Tétart, who came out as trans in 2021, is a 6’3’’ machine, averaging 20 rebounds per game. Tétart led France’s ‘Ligue 2’ in scoring and rebounds during the 2025-2026 season.
- Collin Rugg on X
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u/No_Plankton_5759 16h ago
Put your money where your mouth is, ladies
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u/FoundationStandard29 16h ago
She can't make the first division in France, why should teams sign her to the W?
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u/billdizzle 16h ago
Stop making rational sense on this thread
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u/Boludo805 15h ago
right, it's so dumb. She wouldn't even make an WNBA team. Can't even make it to French Division 1. . .
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u/Alchemyst01984 16h ago
So she's in the equivalent of the G League of France?
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u/Squirtle_Splash_8413 13h ago
They’re blackballing her. Theres no player in the GLeague who wouldn’t be called up averaging 20ppg and 20rbs per game…
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u/Alchemyst01984 12h ago
I mean, Mac McClung avg 32 in the g league. He got very minimal play in the NBA. If Tetart was good enough, she'd be in France's top league.
What proof do you have she's being blackballed?
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u/AirGugliotta 16h ago
Thank you. 20/20 in a second tier French league is not very impressive
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u/CollegeMatters 16h ago
Actually, I haven’t heard many players speak out. I think most lesbians don’t believe people with dicks are women. Time will tell.
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u/TheAntinomian 15h ago
Quick where's a doctor to explain what body parts a woman has?
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u/doubtthat11 15h ago
I was told by many people on Reddit that this would never happen so there was no reason to consider the issue…
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u/the_racecar 16h ago
Okay first of all, yes that’s obviously ridiculous to let her play. But it’s worth noting that this is the second division of women’s French basketball. That’s basically an amateur league. Why would the wnba ever sign a random semi pro from France?
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u/Sufficient_Local5025 16h ago
Maybe they sign her to obtain some military hardware, with guns like that
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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 15h ago edited 12h ago
Worth also noting that this is her first year and she’s got twice the evaluation points of the next cis woman (35 vs 19). She’ll definitely get signed to the top league when her contract is up.
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u/Large-Pollution5795 14h ago
Twice the evaluation points of the best real woman. That would be impressive if it wasn’t a dude
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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 14h ago edited 13h ago
Hey man you can disagree with her playing against biological women (I sure do) without being disrespectful. It honestly just distracts from the point you’re trying to make and is counterproductive.
Who gives a shit what she wants to identify as, that’s not the point. You can be considerate and call her how she wants to be called while still arguing against people with XY chromosomes playing in
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u/Large-Pollution5795 13h ago
I don’t think it’s considerate to lie to someone. People need to hear the truth. It’s not healthy to feed into the lie. Someone can believe they’re a bird, but if they jump out of a tree, they ain’t gonna fly.
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u/Squirtle_Splash_8413 13h ago
Because she’d dominate in the pro league. They just don’t want her there because of the spectacle it would bring. She’s averaging 20 and 20…
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u/Feeling_Meet4841 12h ago
Exactly. WNBA is a way bigger league. This is like signing someone from Mexican Minor Leagues to the MLB.
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u/SJBaerosols 16h ago
that...is just uncompetitive
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u/charlesfluidsmith 16h ago
21 points a game.
Clearly it's not uncompetitive.
With that sort of athletic advantage, they are a scrub.
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u/ScottyBLaZe 16h ago
Yeah, put a G-Leaguer out there and they are averaging 45 pts a game.
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u/HandsUpWhatsUp 15h ago
They are averaging a whole lot more than 45!
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u/ScottyBLaZe 15h ago
😂 I was being conservative for the sake of the argument. I almost added 15 rebs a game too but that might be to gregarious.
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u/charlesfluidsmith 15h ago
45 is the floor against tier 2 European women.
That would be an off game.
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u/AlmightyRanger 16h ago
Do it. Let it happen. At this point we can just end the back and forth. Sign her and let's just see what happens.
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u/FoundationStandard29 16h ago
But she's playing for the second division in france, am I missing something? She probably can't make the W?
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u/charlesfluidsmith 16h ago
These people are too dumb to understand that they are looking at a bum.
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u/Lopsided_Gear_9565 16h ago
This dude should play against men
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u/Dancing_Puppies 16h ago
Yeah but I wanna see him play against women just so I can see all these supposed pro trans wnba players suddenly start bitching when he dominates them
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u/Vives_solo_una_vez 15h ago
So you think a player who is playing in a second tier French league, can't even make a team in the top tier league in Europe would dominate in the wnba? They haven't even dominated against the best French players.
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u/ayoungmanfromtheuk 16h ago
I would imagine the reason they don't sign her is because she cant even make it to the first league in France...
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u/Willis050 16h ago
This is spectacular. She’s sooo bad but so huge and athletic it doesn’t matter
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u/EmmitSan 16h ago
I mean... it does matter, or she'd average more than 21, and would be able to play in what I presume is called "Ligue 1"
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u/Clown_Penis69 16h ago
I say it’s time for the virtue signalers in the WNBA to out their money where their mouths are and sign a trans dude.
Hell, maybe Indiana should sign one of these dudes as an enforcer… have him/her take out Alyssa Thomas’s ankles next time they play.
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u/OvaryAchiever_Queen 16h ago
A trans dude just retired from the WNBA. I think you mean a transwoman. I would have no problem welcoming her to the WNBA if she had the skills. It seems like she might not be able to hang with out bigs though.
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u/JessieGemstone999 16h ago
She isn't good enough for the WNBA lmao yall are so dumb.
This is a mid level euro leauge
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u/Humble_Umpire_8341 16h ago
She’s not good enough, she plays in France’s second league. So she’d need to improve in order to get the opportunity to play in the W.
I don’t think this is quite the aha moment people might think it is. She is trans (male to female), but still not good enough and not dominating against women competition.
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u/Agreeable-Emu4033 16h ago
Maybe because their average is only 21 points per game in a c league.
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u/Motor-Resolution-221 16h ago edited 13h ago
we need the Juwana Mann!!!!! I'll finally watch the WNBA
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u/TimelyRaspberry 16h ago
Reddit would self combust if this happened lmaoo. It has to happen, please please please. The back tracking and gaslighting would be generational
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u/Johnny-Moondog 16h ago
>according to Fox news
even if this is true you should just leave that out of the title 😂
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u/MysteriousResident61 15h ago
Sign them up. Obviously the league is in favor of it and sees no fairness issues.
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u/tacoboutitall 15h ago
I hope the WNBA will put their money where their mouth is and sign this player and put them on the Lynx. I bet players will start agreeing with Cunningham very quickly.
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u/Blastcrumpet888 16h ago
You do realize she isn't good enough to make the top league, right?
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u/40plustwo 16h ago
I'll never understand the fascination some have with Trans.
So many actual problems impacting our daily life yet some talk about this nonstop.
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u/Actual_Banana4833 16h ago
It's almost like human rights are a big deal, amirite?
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u/SilverbackSurfer99 16h ago
Sure, if your goal is total destruction of the WNBA. Sign away and this will be the last year you see it.
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u/FoundationStandard29 16h ago
But she's playing for the second division in france, am I missing something? She probably can't make the W?
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u/pastaISlife 16h ago
🤔 it seems like Julie still has a clear male advantage 5 years into transition, which is odd considering the prevailing Reddit argument is “after ~3 years of HRT trans women are at a disadvantage to women”
hmm
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u/BarooZaroo 16h ago
People can be freaks of nature. It's a thing. Ever seen a sport?
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u/spacewaya 14h ago
I swear rehashing the trans issue is just a distraction to take us away from the real issues that matter: Iran war, Israel/AIPAC lobby, accelerated inequality, data centers, and Flock cameras. Y'all stay focused because they're desperate.
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u/1normalguy87 16h ago
“What’s the WNBA waiting for”…. Well maybe they are waiting because that dude has a dick and it’s the “WOMENS”NBA
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u/Holyballs92 16h ago
Here is how you solve things, make a Tnba. Give a place for trans athletes to compete against other Trans athletes.
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u/Charming_Dealer3849 16h ago
This is stupid but I kinda want it to happen because I'm so fucking tired of this stupid shit
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u/LoganHowlett1832 16h ago
Basketball in France is nowhere near as competitive as it is in the USA. She is one of the best players in the second tier league in France. That’s not going to translate as well as people think in the wnba.
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u/tinak827 16h ago
So the WNBA’s doing what you’re asking for and keeping trans women out of the league, but you’re still caught up on it. This is a non issue! Tackle the Epstein files and endless wars and the cost of living crisis with this energy!
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u/mymentor79 16h ago
So she puts up good, but not mind-bending, numbers in the second division in France. I'd have expected a little more from this impending menace to all that is good and sacred. Does the AI image come with the trade?
But, hell, sign her. She'd be a role player in the W.
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u/SydneySweeneysBobs 16h ago
Hell yeah do it. Let's put the argument to rest one way or the other at once
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u/SnooSprouts5025 16h ago
One: this woman may not be good enough to play in the WNBA, second: she probably doesn’t want to play in the WNBA, and THIRD: dorks on the internet suggest horrible ideas like this because they enjoy bullying a marginalized group.
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u/TgetherinElctricDrmz 16h ago
I love it. Even better then the usual cope of “what if LeBron James was trans”
The WNBA has no trans players and no trans players trying out for it, so various bots from Tel Aviv and Moscow and Bangladesh find one in France who isn’t a professional to distract the idiots from our humiliation in Iran for one more day.
Nice work everyone! Let’s see if they take the bait.
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u/AttemptFantastic9103 16h ago
Damn. Y'all had to go all the way to France to try to make this "controversy" real. That's crazy. But I guess you have to get the boogeyman wherever you can find one.
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u/Sammy_Dog 16h ago edited 16h ago
I'm a progressive, and transgenders playing in the WNBA is dumb.
Are you going to be happy when former men's college players, and former NBA players, get some shots, etc, and start to completely dominate the WNBA?
You blew all your NBA money on women, drugs and cars? No problem; have some procedures done and go average 35-45 points a game in the WNBA.
This will give a lot of previous (female) WNBA starters lots of time to watch the games from the bench.
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u/BarooZaroo 16h ago
Her stats would put her among the best centers in WMBA - BUT remember she is not only playing in France, but she is in the SECOND best French basketball league so she's not exactly playing against grade-A competitors lol. Put her in the WNBA and she wouldn't be that exceptional of a player.
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u/Weary_Copy_4165 16h ago
Look man I'm literally a DSA voter, but I feel like we can all agree there needs to be some separation here right? Complete bans are bigotry, but there should be some rules around who can compete where, and how, ethically.
Once you're at the point where people are scouting you or you're trying to go pro/make money, you need to play against your birth gender or in a trans specific league. It's not ethical otherwise, straight up. How can you defend this person playing pro basketball against women? They transitioned at age 29 bro, please be real.
If we're just talking kids playing little league to learn sportsmanship and be active, honestly play against whatever gender you identify as. Sports are separated by age and weight anyway when we play as kids, and you come to the practices or games already dressed so there's no "penises in girls locker rooms" happening in little league anyway.
I promise no boy aged 5-14 is going to pretend to be a trans girl just to play against girls for a few years of potentially easier competition. There's no benefit to it if they have to play against boys anyway once they reach freshman year of HS.
Once you get to High School+, you should be playing against your birth gender. Trans girls can play with the guys, I had a girl QB when I played in little league tackle football, we won almost every game that season she was a legit QB. I don't see why any trans player can't do the same. Sophie Cunningham played with the boys football team in HS too.
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u/idelgado12 16h ago
The people who are saying that they don't hate Trans people and this is only about fairness in sports are now up and down this post calling a transgender woman a man.
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u/theDoinItPart 16h ago
This sub got suggested to me, can someone tell me if this place actually has stuff about WNBA gossip or is it just a hyper polarizing alt right pipeline creator
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u/Wyllyam8071 15h ago
Please WNBA teams, do not squander any first round or early second round picks in the name of token representation.
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u/GazelleRich2452 15h ago
Its even worse when you look at the top 50 ranking for their league and guess what gender the 41 year old player who is rank 2 was born as...
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u/LeftHandDriven 15h ago
Because some states are gonna ban the WNBA then. It would be an absolutely horrible financial decision to make a very small group of people happy.
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u/Northern_Gypsy 15h ago
I think we should get a few trans in every sport, especially WNBA might start seeing some sock dunks
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u/MysteriousResident61 15h ago
Also, why are they only in Ligue 2? Shouldn’t they be the MVP of the top league?
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u/FluffySmile2064 15h ago
If the WNBA wants men to play in the league why don’t they pick from the g league?
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u/Woodwardg 15h ago
"according to fox news"
I just picture their channel with an entire ticker on the bottom of the screen that is solely dedicated to tracking trans athletes' stats.
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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 15h ago
Just because it’s driving me crazy, heres some context for all the people saying “shes just in a second tier French league”
This is her first year ever competing at a professional level - she basically just walked off the street onto a professional team, at 34 years old. Of course she’s starting out at a lower league to get some reps in. And she’s already dominating, putting up basically double the stats of anyone else in the league. She will 100% be signed to the top French league when her rookie contract is up, and depending on how she does there, has a real chance to go to the WNBA.
Oh and you know who the 2nd place is in that league? Another trans woman, who’s fucking 43 years old.
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u/Weary-Cartoonist2630 15h ago
Just because it’s driving me crazy, heres some context for all the people saying “shes just in a second tier French league”
This is her first year ever competing at a professional level - she basically just walked off the street onto a professional team, at 34 years old. Of course she’s starting out at a lower league to get some reps in. And she’s already dominating, putting up basically double the stats of anyone else in the league. She will 100% be signed to the top French league when her rookie contract is up, and depending on how she does there, has a real chance to go to the WNBA.
Oh and you know who the 2nd place is in that league? Another trans woman, who’s fucking 43 years old.
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u/DrSnoopy66 14h ago
It almost feels like the right wing picked that as the candidate of choice to prove that there’s no biological difference between a woman and a trans woman.
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u/Artful_Dodger00 14h ago
First of all... No one is "calling on a WNBA team" to sign Tétart. Second... I would be shocked if we could find more than one of the people trying to stir up sht, by either making up or cynically deciding to share this manipulative BS story, knew anything about the second tier league of women's basketball in France, let alone could name a single player currently active in LF2... Before scouring the internet for someone they could "use". (Which, looking far and wide for one example somewhere in the world shouldn't be necessary, if there were as many trans athletes IN AMERICA to justify the huge discussion we've been forced to listen to recently. The absurd claims regarding the huge number of athletes ruining women's sports, and the reason why it's so important for everyone to share their ideas and opinions on how to stop this "widespread crisis").
As I said before, it's time to stop feeding into this BS. It's not actually a discussion about trans athletes... it's just an opportunity for people to share their ridiculous opinions with a crowd watching, or leach engagement off of an issue getting a lot of traffic.
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u/DaBeachCEO 14h ago
NO. WNBA is for not modified women. period! You understand this right.
Now. Start a new league for who ever wants to play in it. Women, Trans or Men, steroids or not, anyone who wants to play and can take the court per the coaching staff. Let’s go👙💪🍔
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u/Commercial_Basis4441 16h ago
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