Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom thinks he would dominate in the WNBA by simply putting on a woman’s wig and changing his name to “Eneshia.”
“I’m 7-foot, 270 pounds,” he told Fox News hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino.
“And, if I decided to identify myself as a woman and decided to play in the WNBA … would that be fair to all the women who have been chasing their dreams since they were a little kid?”
Kanter firmly believes that despite averaging 11.2 points and 7.8 rebounds a game during his 11-season career in the NBA, he could outperform any woman in their league.
Men don’t belong in women’s spaces.
Restrooms – Locker Rooms or Sports.Since I’m blackballed from the @NBA, should I put on a wig, identify as a woman and start dominating the @WNBA?
Is that when the outrage will begin?
Is that fair to all the women who spent their whole life…— Enes FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) August 11, 2023
“If I am allowed in, I will average 60 points and 30 rebounds,” he stated. “I will break records.”
“Men do not belong in women’s spaces… restrooms, locker rooms or sports,” Kanter continued.
“Everybody knows we are bigger, stronger, taller, more muscular. It’s just not fair. It’s just not fair, period.”
His remarks on Fox News come on the heels of a tweet he posted last Friday with a similar sentiment.
“Men don’t belong in women’s spaces,” he tweeted. “Restrooms – Locker Rooms or Sports.”
“Since I’m blackballed from the @NBA, should I put on a wig, identify as a woman and start dominating the @WNBA?” he questioned.
“Is that when the outrage will begin? Is that fair to all the women who spent their whole life chasing their goals? Where are all the Women Rights Activists and Feminists?!”
In a follow-up, Kanter posted a clearly photoshopped black and white snap of himself sporting a woman’s wig.
“I’m identifying myself as a woman! LOL,” he tweeted on Tuesday. “From now on y’all can call me ENISHA Freedom.”
I’m identifying myself as a woman! Lol
From now on y’all can call me
ENISHA Freedom.
I’m 7 foot and 270 pounds biological male who wants to compete in women sports. 🤦🏻♂️Hey @WNBA, are you hiring? pic.twitter.com/vpBgLHS6jR
— Enes FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) August 15, 2023
“I’m 7 foot and 270 pounds biological male who wants to compete in women sports,” he jested. “Hey @WNBA, are you hiring?”
A transgender powerlifter crushed Canada’s national women’s powerlifting record at the 2023 Western Canadian Championship on Sunday.
Anne Andres, 40, managed a total powerlifting score, which combines a competitor’s best lifts from the bench press, deadlift, and squat categories, of nearly 1,317 pounds at the event.
SuJan Gil, the next best ranking competitor, only was able to lift a total of 854 pounds, over 450 pounds less than Andres.
“Today I did some lifting,” Andres bragged on Instagram. “Not just some lifting. I got to lift with friends from across Canada.”
“Friends who welcome me and love me and want me to be there. Friends who support trying to be the best me. I couldn’t ask for more than that, could I?”
Anne Andres (male who identifies and competes as a woman) doesn't understand why female powerlifters are so "bad" at bench press….well idk Anne, but maybe it's because you have 20 times more testosterone than them. Just a thought…. pic.twitter.com/klxd4WaoYc
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 17, 2023
In February, Andres mocked fellow competitors in a video that was blasted by former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, who was defeated by UPenn’s transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in the 2022 championships.
“Why is women’s bench so bad? I mean not compared to me, we all know that I’m a tranny freak, so that doesn’t count,” Andres stated.
“I mean, standard bench in powerlifting competitions for women. I literally don’t understand why it’s so bad.”
“Anne Andres (male who identifies and competes as a woman) doesn’t understand why female powerlifters are so “bad” at bench press,” Gaines snapped back.
“Well [I don’t know] Anne, but maybe it’s because you have 20 times more testosterone than them. Just a thought….”
On Wednesday, the international governing body of all aquatic sports announced that a new open category would debut at the upcoming Swimming World Cup in Berlin, Germany.
The genderless category, which will be open to all swimmers, will pilot in the 50-meter and 100-meter distances during the early October event.