Two washed-up NBA players are using trans people as punchlines in a pathetic political stunt

Two failed NBA players have found a new way to make a mockery of transgender people, and they’re using women’s professional basketball to do it. And just like every other attempt to delegitimize trans human beings, it will fail.Two narcissistic, selfish, and thoughtless jerks, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, have announced their “intention” to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft, claiming they now identify as women for the purposes of professional basketball.Narcissistic because they’re only thinking about their pathetic selves, and selfish and thoughtless because they have absolutely no idea how their sick prank adversely affects the lives of the trans community.Related: Two ex-NBA players turn transgender identity into a stunt. The WNBA is respondingThe loud-mouthed White sickeningly admitted on Fox News that he “sometimes identifies as a woman for purposes of professional basketball.” There is toxic masculinity, and then there is lethal masculinity, which applies to Freedom and White.Two men who built their careers on an elite male professional sport are now trying on a transgender identity like it’s a perverted Halloween costume. This has nothing to do with protest or with proving a point. Freedom and White don’t belong anywhere near the WNBA. It is mockery, pure and simple. And because they only thought about themselves and thought — wrongly, by the way — that they were being clever, they are scorching people who have spent their entire lives fighting simply to be believed about who they really are.And underneath all the anger at this stunt is something simpler and harder to shake: transgender people are human beings. They pay rent. They worry about their families. They have good days and terrible days, just like the rest of us. They do not deserve to be reduced to a punchline by men chasing relevance.This stupid stunt follows Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham's comments arguing that women's sports should be restricted to biological females