The WNBA just got one step closer to admitting what a woman is.
However, the league isn't quite there yet, and its latest response to a congressional inquiry still leaves the water more muddy than clear.
'This is their clear acknowledgment ...'
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.) sent the WNBA a letter in September asking the league to answer some key questions about how the league is being governed.
Stutzman didn't exactly present the WNBA with any difficult questions, but the league still had trouble providing a clear answer.
In addition to queries about player safety, the letter asked how the league defines a "woman" and, if it doesn't have a definition, why it was preventing former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White from entering the WNBA draft.
More than a month later, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has finally responded to the congressman and the House Republican Study Committee.
Stutzman posted the response on his X page, showing that while Engelbert provided the most clear answer from the league to date, she still won't provide a definition of what a woman is.
"With respect to your questions regarding eligibility, only women are eligible to play the WNBA," Engelbert wrote.
She added, "The individuals you cite in your letter are both men."
🚨🚨In a reply to my letter to the WNBA about @Enesfreedom and @Highway_30’s eligibility, the @WNBA declared they are “both men”.Rep. Stutzman declared victory over the response, writing, "This is their clear acknowledgment that simply identifying as a woman does not change basic human biology!"
However, the commissioner's statement that "only women are eligible" is in line with pre-existing WNBA rules set out by the league's latest collective bargaining agreement.
Article XIII, Section 1 of the WNBA's 2026 agreement says that "only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA," but does not provide a definition of the term. The league has not responded to multiple inquiries from Blaze News about what it considers a woman to be.
League officials even met in August to discuss the topic, but made no determination by the end of their meeting:
"There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others," the WNBA declared.
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The two former NBA players declared themselves eligible for the 2027 WNBA Draft on the simple basis that the league has not defined what a woman is.
While Freedom, a 6'10" former NBA center, did not declare himself to be transgender, White, a former NBA guard, outright declared himself to be a woman.
"I'm a woman. I identify as sometimes identifying as a woman for the purpose of basketball, professional basketball, so I'll be declaring for the WNBA Draft in 2027 as well," he said in August.
Thrown into the mix was Julie Tétart, a man who seemingly believes he is a woman and plays professional women's basketball in France. The athlete dominated France's Ligue 2 for the 2025-2026 season, blowing competitors out of the water with over 20 points and 20 rebounds per game.
Tétart said if the WNBA contacted him, he wouldn't turn the league down.
"If they contact me, I won't say no."
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Tax-paying voters who don't want to pay for transgender surgeries for illegal aliens are not likely to support Abdul El-Sayed after a new revelation.
The Democratic candidate for one of Michigan's seats in the U.S. Senate made the comments on podcasts back in 2021 and 2022, according to a Washington Free Beacon report.
'That’s going to be the example that they’re going to push forward because it captures a group of multiple marginalized people whom they want to cast as being undeserving.'
In one of the clips, El-Sayed complains that "conservatives" are using the issue of transgender surgeries for illegal aliens to oppose "Medicare for All."
"A lot of the most difficult conversations break on the question of who deserves what care, right?" he said on his "America Dissected" podcast from Feb. 2022, according to the Free Beacon.
"The prime example that conservatives will impose on a conversation about Medicare for All will be ‘well, what do we do with the undocumented person who comes to this country and wants to get gender reassignment surgery on Medicare for All?'" he adds.
He goes on to accuse those opposing transgender treatments for illegal aliens of being guilty of "the original sin of racism," a common anti-American trope among far-left extremists.
"That’s going to be the example that they’re going to push forward because it captures a group of multiple marginalized people whom they want to cast as being undeserving," he adds.
In the second clip from a Boston University health policy podcast in 2021, he makes it clear he wants the taxpayer to pay for the trans surgeries for illegal aliens.
"When you talk about care for transgender people, when you talk about care for immigrants, like, all of these things are going to be deeply politicized," said El-Sayed.
"My hope, right, is that we would pass a Medicare for All that is truly inclusive and offers the full gamut of health care that any and everyone would need," he added.
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Cole Wozniak, a campaign spokesman for El-Sayed, released a brief statement that implied El-Sayed still supports transgender surgeries for illegal aliens.
"Abdul wants to guarantee health care for every single American taxpayer and believes that medical decisions should be between a patient, their family, and their doctor," said Wozniak.
Ironically, support for transgender surgeries for illegal aliens was one of the many issues that doomed the presidential campaign of Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024. In a brutally effective campaign ad, Harris is seen promoting trans-related surgery for prison inmates. The ad closes with the memorable line "Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you."
An April 2025 poll by the American Principles Project found that 66% of American adults oppose the federal government paying for any transgender surgeries or gender reassignment treatments.
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Michigan Senate polls 2026: El-Sayed vs. Rogers
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A 24-year-old Kansas man is in federal custody after allegedly threatening on Facebook to kill President Donald Trump.
Jaden J. Read was arrested after the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas charged him with making threats against the president, according to a Monday Justice Department press release.
'Let's shoot Trump honestly, where's our shooter?'
Read allegedly claimed to know exactly where President Donald Trump would speak during his visit to the Wichita area on Monday.
"IK where your speech will be. Already mapped out roofs around. Finna get kirked since yall couldn't help him," Read allegedly wrote.
"Kirked" is a reference to the assassination of Charlie Kirk and has become popular among left-wingers wishing death on conservatives.
A Crime Stoppers tip made on Thursday pointed authorities to Read's comments under a KAKE News Facebook post about the president's upcoming trip, according to the DOJ.
"Let's shoot Trump honestly, where's our shooter? I'm tired of living this money life," the one comment allegedly read.
"I just got a 308 and 305 round and I'm killing this pedo," Read also allegedly posted.
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Photo courtesy of Charlie Kirk
Under a separate post from KWCH 12 News, Read allegedly wrote, "Can we shoot him in Kansas please I will myself."
The rooftop comment came about a minute later, according to prosecutors.
It follows the July 2024 attempt on Trump's life. Thomas Crooks shot and wounded the then-candidate from a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Charlie Kirk was shot from a rooftop at Utah Valley University in September 2025.
The complaint was filed Saturday, and Read was arrested in Clearwater the same day. He will remain in custody until a detention hearing, according to the DOJ. No hearing date has been made public.
If found guilty, Read faces up to five years in prison under the federal law barring threats against the president.
The Secret Service, U.S. Marshals Service, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Highway Patrol, and Wichita Police Department were all involved in the investigation, according to the release.
Trump went ahead with his Monday event at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, just north of Wichita.
U.S. Attorney Ryan Kriegshauser issued a stern statement for would-be assassins and those threatening the president online or offline.
"Political violence and threats of political violence will not be tolerated," he said in the release.
"The First Amendment allows for robust disagreement, but there are constraints," Kriegshauser said, cautioning people "to stay within the bounds of constitutionally protected speech."
The Secret Service, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Highway Patrol, U.S. Attorney's Office, and Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The attorney listed for Read did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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