Pressure mounts against WNBA to adopt ‘biological women’-only policy: ‘Women’s sports are for women’

Women seem to have had enough of battling over whether their sports can include athletes who were born male.

Amid the WNBA’s controversy stemming from star player Sophie Cunningham, who simply said girls “shouldn’t have to go against biological men” in sports, there have been growing calls for the league to cement through policy that the WNBA is for women only.

‘The WNBA needs to look in the mirror and do some soul-searching about what it stands for.’

According to the WNBA’s 2026 collective-bargaining agreement with its players’ association, Article XIII, Section 1 declares that “only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.”

While the definition of what a woman is should go without saying — the WNBA does not provide one — several prominent