Four biological males have declared they identify as women for the purpose of playing in the WNBA.

Posted by The Health Ranger Report, Aug 14, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

Polygraph verdictFalse

Sources: 3 contradict1 support5 context
Said: 1 time·
Confidence: 85%

The Health Ranger ReportAug 14, 2026

The claim's count is wrong: as of the August 2026 posting, AP reported that two former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, declared they identify as women to enter the WNBA draft, not four. Other sources mention only those two, and the Bet-David speculation about unnamed male players is unsupported.

This claim is about the present, so it is judged as of the day it was checked.

What we found

Contradicts. AP News (Aug 12, 2026) reports that two former NBA players, Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, declared themselves eligible for the WNBA draft by saying they identify as women, which is two people rather than four.[1]

Contradicts. National Review and the Washington Examiner also name only Freedom and White as the players who declared, and the Washington Examiner later reports the WNBA deemed them ineligible as 'both men'.[2][3]

Supports. Multiple outlets confirm that the two declarations were made for the purpose of entering the WNBA draft, so the core assertion that men declared identities to play in the league is partly borne out.[1][2][3][4]

Context. The 'four' figure appears only in an opinion piece referring to 'four former NBA players' who are 'nominally planning' to compete, and in Patrick Bet-David's unsupported speculation about unnamed male players, which is not a factual record.[5][9]

Context. Grok and Heidi Stevens note that no transgender woman has ever played in the WNBA and no biological men are on any roster, which conflicts with the claim's implication that the men were already playing.[6][7][8]