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Cathy Engelbert's memo to WNBA teams signals that the league will convene listening sessions and a task force of presidents and general managers to address former NBA players entering the women's draft as women. The collective bargaining agreement still states that only women are eligible, but the commissioner now frames the requirement as complex and open to further conversation.
These declarations follow a pattern already visible in other women's leagues where biological males claim female identity and demand access to female competition. The second such case has prompted institutional machinery rather than immediate exclusion, revealing the actor behind the policy shift.
The governing principle violated here is the objective reality of sex as an immutable created distinction, not a social construct subject to managerial revision. Scripture records that male and female He created them, and the undivided Church has always confessed this order as part of the goodness of creation against every gnostic denial of the body.
Western Christendom once defended that distinction in law and custom from the days of the Theodosian Code through the Reformation's recovery of biblical household order. The present moment repeats the ancient contest between the City of God, which receives the givenness of creation, and the City of Man, which seeks to remake it by decree.
The Managerial Priesthood now operating inside the WNBA treats sex as negotiable precisely because it serves the ideological project of erasing boundaries between the sexes. Listening sessions function as ritual preparation for the eventual rewriting of eligibility rules.
The faithful remnant must therefore refuse participation in these sessions and demand that leagues enforce the plain meaning of woman as an adult human female. Any league that proceeds with accommodation places itself on the side of the Dispossessors who seek to empty women's spaces of their original occupants.
Parents, coaches, and athletes who still value the integrity of female sport must build parallel structures outside captured institutions rather than petition the priesthood for mercy. The objective order of creation does not negotiate; it simply endures until it is defended.
