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LCR President: "...after significant discussion with our membership, our Board of Directors voted to refine Log Cabin Republicans’ national advocacy focus to concentrate specifically on issues of sexual orientation and conservative values — in other words, we are an LGB advocacy organization, as our founders envisioned and as our moral center calls us to be."View quoted post on X
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A WNBA task force of team presidents and general managers met Wednesday and discussed transgender athletes but did not arrive at any eligibility rules, according to a statement sent to ESPN by a league spokesperson.View quoted post on X
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All men pretending to women are men pretending to be women. It doesn’t matter how many hormones they have ingested or how much surgery they have had.View quoted post on X
janeclarejones.com The Annals of the TERF-Wars So, yesterday this turned up in my feed, which struck me as something of an, um, mispresentation… and somehow, I ended up writing my own version of how this whole thing went down… … Just this morning I wrote an account of what I thought the WNBA meeting might be like. It was parody. Turns out I was pretty right. Here's what I wrote:
WNBA EMERGENCY ELIGIBILITY MEETING (Boardroom. Fluorescent lights. Half-eaten bagels. Cathy Engelbert at the head of the table looking like she’s aged six years since Monday. Cheryl Reeve is wearing a bright “Trans Kids Belong” t-shirt over her coaching gear. A couple of nervous PR people, one very progressive policy director and two veteran executives who have clearly already started drinking.)
ENGELBERT: Okay. We are in crisis mode. The internet is on fire, the sponsors are texting in all caps and someone just asked me on live television to define the letter W. We need a statement that says something without saying anything. Ideas. Go.
PR WOMAN: We announce a comprehensive, multi-year, independent study into the complex interplay of identity, performance and competitive equity. Research is always safe. Research buys time. Research is the Swiss bank account of bad PR.
POLICY DIRECTOR: Yes. And we reaffirm our unwavering commitment to inclusion while simultaneously protecting the integrity of women’s basketball. The usual word salad. Season it with “lived experience.”
CHERYL REEVE: (leaning forward, shirt glowing) But trans kids belong.
VETERAN EXEC #1: Cheryl. There are no kids in this league. The youngest player is twenty-two. That sentence has nothing to do with anything happening in this room.
CHERYL: Trans athletes belong. Full stop. We do not gatekeep womanhood.
VETERAN EXEC #2: We currently have five males on the roster. If we actually do sex testing, those five are gone by Thursday. The league just becomes . . . women again. Which, I’m told, is now the controversial option.
ENGELBERT: We are not defining the W. We are not testing anyone. That’s invasive! There can be no genital checks! Defining the W is a trap. Testing is a trap. Biology is a trap! Saying the word “female” out loud is a trap.
PR WOMAN: What if we just say we’re “listening and learning” and then form a task force that reports back in 2028?
CHERYL: If Enes Kanter and Royce White try to declare for the draft we’re finished. Those are men pretending to be women.
VETERAN EXEC #1: Aren’t all the other ones also . . . ?
CHERYL: Yes, but Kanter and White aren’t pretending hard enough. They still have beards. And deep voices. And testosterone. It’s disrespectful to the authentic trans experience. To the men actually living as women.
POLICY DIRECTOR: Okay, now you’re gatekeeping femininity. Some women have beards. Some women have penises. Some women have testicles, win Olympic gold medals in women’s boxing and father children. It’s 2026. Get with the program, Cheryl.
ENGELBERT: (rubbing temples)
Here’s the thing, ladies. We need language that makes the activists feel heard and the sponsors feel protected and the actual female players feel . . . managed. We cannot look like we’re choosing biology. Biology is the third rail. And it is so yesterday. The biology people are stuck in the past. They’re like flat-earthers. Or anti-vaxxers.
CHERYL: Trans kids belong.
VETERAN EXEC #2: I’m going to say it one more time. There are no kids here. You keep saying that like it’s a magic spell that makes the 6’8” center with the five o’clock shadow disappear.
PR WOMAN: What if the study includes “community listening sessions” and “stakeholder engagement”? That usually buys eighteen months.
ENGELBERT: Perfect. We’re doing research. We’re listening. We’re committed to the future of the W . . . whatever the W turns out to be once the research is
complete. No one gets banned this season. No one gets tested. No one is forced to define a woman on the record.
PR WOMAN: What about next season when Enes and Royce enter the draft??
ENGELBERT: We’ll just send word they must not, under any circumstances, be given a contract! That will make a mockery of women’s basketball! We cannot have that! I won’t have it!
CHERYL: We need to center trans joy. And trans kids belonging.
ENGELBERT: Yes. Trans joy. Belonging. Kids. And a task force. Meeting adjourned before anyone says the word “biology” again.
(Silence. Someone takes a swig from a flask. Cheryl adjusts her shirt so the slogan is more visible for the inevitable press leak.)
FADE OUT.
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