ENES KANTER FREEDOM: The WNBA says I'm a man. So why is it still afraid to say who is a woman?

Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have an answer from the WNBA.

Sort of.

After months of questions about who is eligible to compete in women's professional basketball, WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has declared in an official letter that I am not eligible to play in the league.

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Why? Because Cuckoo Cathy identified me as a man. I was as shocked as you probably are to learn that a league that can't define what a woman is can so confidently identify a man.

But apparently, telling me I can't play wasn't enough. Now, the WNBA doesn't even want me in the stands as a paying customer.

On Wednesday night, I traveled to Atlanta to attend Game 3 of the WNBA Finals. I purchased premium courtside tickets, just like any other basketball fan. But when I arrived, I was informed that I would not be allowed to sit in the seats I purchased.

Instead, they decided I would have to watch the game from a private suite and enter through a private entrance, supposedly for my safety.

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I appreciate the concern for my safety. But I have spent years speaking out against authoritarian regimes that have threatened my life and my family. I am certainly not going to hide in a luxury suite because my presence makes someone uncomfortable.

I wanted to sit in the seats I paid for, watch the game, and continue standing up for women in sports. But when I refused to be moved out of sight, security denied me entry. I was escorted away from the arena.

For the second time, I was prevented from attending a WNBA game while speaking up for women. The WNBA is apparently more comfortable removing me from its arena than answering the questions I am asking.

And those questions begin with Commissioner Engelbert's response to Congressman Marlin Stutzman of Indiana. In her letter, she wrote, "only women are eligible to play in the WNBA and the individuals you cite in your letter are both men."

Notice what she did not say.

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She did not say that biological males are categorically ineligible to compete in the WNBA. She did not establish a biological standard for eligibility. She simply declared that I am a man and therefore cannot play.

Who gave Commissioner Engelbert the authority to determine my identity? What standards did she use to make that determination? And if she can so confidently identify me as a man, why can't the WNBA apply that same clarity to the question of who qualifies as a woman?

You cannot have it both ways.

The WNBA has reportedly assembled a task force to examine its eligibility policies. Yet we still have no publicly available, definitive policy establishing whether biological males who identify as women can compete in the league.

A task force. Meetings. Discussions. And still no clear answer to one of the most basic questions a women's sports league should be able to answer.

The women who have spent their entire lives training to compete at the highest level of their sport deserve to know th