Enes Kanter Freedom’s Desperate Attempt at Transphobic Trolling Gets Him Ejected From WNBA Game

People who thought they were attending a WNBA game in Chicago on Sunday evening were also treated to a three-ring circus courtesy of former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom.Freedom, who announced his intention to be drafted into the WNBA on August 7 as a seeming anti-trans publicity stunt aimed at the league’s eligibility policy, attended a game between the Chicago Sky and the Indiana Fever in Chicago on Sunday. While sitting courtside, he didn’t seem intent on making any friends, instead getting into arguments with WNBA fans and players before police eventually removed him from the Wintrust Arena. Freedom posted a video of himself entering the arena on Sunday evening. Several WNBA fans confronted him head-on, with one fan telling him to “get your bitch ass out of Chicago.”“We are getting attacked before the @WNBA game in Chicago,” Freedom wrote on social media alongside the video. Freedom was wearing a T-shirt bearing an ostensible dictionary definition of the word “woman” as “adult human female” — a common form of apparel among trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs. (The version of the garment Freedom wore is already being sold online by third-party opportunists as the Enes Kanter Freedom shirt.)Of course, wearing such a shirt was received as a provocation — other protesters have worn similarly anti-trans “XX/XY” shirts to recent WNBA games — and also runs counter to Freedom’s own campaign to be seen as a woman for the purposes of playing in the WNBA, given that the shirt is intended to mock the idea of transgender identity itself.“Careful what you wish for, @WNBA. Freedom of speech never looked this good,” he wrote. “Somehow controversial.” Freedom posted a second shot featuring the shirt, intimating that he was going to use the women’s restroom during halftime. “It’s halftime and I need to use the restroom,” he wrote. “Rules are rules @WNBA.” There is no confirmation as to whether Freedom actually attemp