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You probably have seen the story of WNBA player Sophie Cunningham being condemned by the woke crowd simply for stating the simple reality: girl’s sports are for girls. Now here is your chance to stand with Sophie and all who want to protect young girls who compete in athletics.
The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is now being urged to establish clear, consistent eligibility standards. Quite simply, if it doesn’t, the future of the league will be in doubt, and the very existence of women’s sports will be threatened. From a policy standpoint, defining a woman as a biological female for the purpose of WNBA competition is essential to preserving competitive integrity, ensuring fairness, and maintaining the league’s foundational mission of providing opportunities for all female athletes everywhere.
Basketball performance at the professional level is heavily influenced by physiological factors such as average height, muscle mass, bone density, and speed. These God-ordained distinctions create meaningful competitive differences that cannot be fully mitigated through training or hormone therapy.
For example, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are two former NBA players who have declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft. While their motives are clearly to force the WNBA to clarify its standards, the point still stands. The very idea of elite male athletes entering the women’s league underscores why the WNBA must articulate firm definitions to protect competitive balance, something it is currently struggling to do because of its internal liberal ideology.
Establishing a clear definition of a woman as a biological female will provide stability, transparency, and confidence for athletes, fans, and the institutions that support women’s basketball (and eventually all sports).
Join me by signing our petition to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert, urging the league to allow only biological females as players. It is in our society’s best interest to acknowledge and accept God’s unique design of humanity as male and female.
AFA President Tim Wildmon issues two weekly email alerts with calls to action on foundational matters of vital importance to our families, our nation and our Christian faith.
Join me by signing our petition to WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert