WNBAs hypocrites kick girls and Sophie Cunningham to the curb

The Women’s National Basketball Association may claim to put women first, but the league sure has a funny way of showing it. When its leaders aren’t giving prodigy Caitlin Clark the cold shoulder or turning a blind eye to her on-court mistreatment, they’re telling young female fans to go dribble a football if they insist that women’s sports should be free of male intrusion.That’s what happened Wednesday when Celeste Keaton, co-owner of the Seattle Storm, publicly exploded at two teen girls for wearing T-shirts reading XX-XY — an implicit message that sports should be separated by sex.Keaton allegedly called the pair “f–king insane” for their quiet protest at a game between the Storm and the Indiana Fever.That’s right: This wealthy, influential woman saw two girls seated courtside respectfully advocating to keep women’s sports female — at a women’s basketball game featuring high-profile female stars, no less — and thought to herself, “I should berate them for their bigotry.”The optics were too ridiculous to satirize.But they’re in keeping with the kerfuffle that followed last week’s remarks by the Fever’s Sophie Cunningham, who has become a league firebrand for her verbal and even physical defense of Clark, her teammate. Cunningham told ESPN that true empathy, widely seen as a core female strength, means not lying to those you love about observable reality.“With that love is truth, being honest,” she said.

“And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”The “truth” she referenced is that men and women are biologically different down to their DNA, bone structure, muscle mass and other indisputable attributes — and that trans women are biologically male.And that, in truth, gender-inclusion policies have resulted in an invasion of young women’s spaces, opportunities, privacy and safety.Under the pretense of compassion, young female ath...