# Clay Travis want a new WNBA Franchise with all Trans Women Players **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** basketball-nba\ **Created:** [August 11, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302 "2026-08-11T20:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/61 "2026-08-16T21:41:25Z")
> [@CaveMike](#): > > The WNBA has made a decision; only women are eligible. There’s no ambiguity. What more needs to be ruled on? These days, unfortunately, organizations like sports leagues are being pushed to rule on exactly who qualifies as a woman. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/62 "2026-08-16T22:34:55Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > These days, unfortunately, organizations like sports leagues are being pushed to rule on exactly who qualifies as a woman. Yes, by white male cisgender assholes. They are wise to do their best to ignore the trolls. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/63 "2026-08-17T00:00:33Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > They are wise to do their best to ignore the trolls. Yeah, it’s just another Obama birth certificate thing. And we saw how that worked out. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/64 "2026-08-18T04:20:12Z")
(Brietbart. Freaking _Breitbart._ Good lord. 😬 ) Hey, is there one subatomic shred of evidence that this Clay Travis is anything but the three billionth obnoxious useless repulsive reactionary gasbag whose record for actually doing things is slightly worse than Elon Musk’s? I’m _still_ smoldering over that AABA crap. If the WNBA feels any need to address this thinly-veiled infantile gotcha farce at all, they should just announce that should a transwoman seek to join, there will be standards in place, and say no more unless _this looks like it has a chance of actually happening._ Stay high and dry and Travis can enjoy the disease-ridden sewer on his own. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/65 "2026-08-24T03:55:14Z")
Bumping because former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, one of two men who were mentioned in the article in the OP as “declaring” for the WNBA draft, was in attendance today at the Fever/Sky game in Chicago, which wound up becoming a confrontation: > [@](#): > > Kanter Freedom was sitting courtside in a black T-shirt that read: “WOMAN noun. adult human female.” During a timeout late in the third quarter, Cloud began walking toward Kanter Freedom and shouting at him. He was standing with his arms outstretched and stepped toward the court before security cut him off and directed him to leave. > > Kanter Freedom pumped his fist and mocked Cloud by making a talking gesture with his hand. While arguing that he should not have to leave, he waved his arms to the crowd before holding out his shirt while exiting. > [@](#): > > Kanter Freedom responded to Sunday’s ejection in a social media post, writing, “I just got kicked out of a @WNBA game for supporting WOMEN! Let that sink in, AMERICA!” > > He also appeared to target Cloud, writing, “It’s always women hating on other women.” Just in case there was any confusion about this entire thing being a publicity stunt, and a trolling of female players and the WNBA 😛 > **[Kanter Freedom ejected after confrontation with Sky's Cloud](https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/49707455/kanter-freedom-ejected-confrontation-sky-cloud)** > > Ex-NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from Sunday's game between the Fever and the Sky after a verbal altercation with Chicago's Natasha Cloud. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/66 "2026-08-24T12:23:14Z")
Good article, but I am deeply disappointed in the editor who did not write the headline “Old Man Yells at Cloud.” ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/67 "2026-08-24T12:48:17Z")
If this was the 1950s, Travis’ cover story for being against the integration of major league baseball would be because of the financial effects on the Negro leagues. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/68 "2026-08-24T13:44:10Z")
It takes balls to do that. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/69 "2026-08-24T13:54:00Z")
A grown-ass man trolling the WNBA. I’m sure his mother is proud. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302/70 "2026-08-24T20:59:34Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > A grown-ass man Now if only the other parts of him had grown, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clay-travis-want-a-new-wnba-franchise-with-all-trans-women-players/1032302.md?page=3)