The WNBA Players’ Association’s refusal to be “political pawns” while simultaneously demanding a beefed-up Title IX is a textbook case of selective principle: they want the government to guarantee equal outcomes in women’s sports, yet they balk when the same government tries to leverage their platform for other causes. For Second Amendment advocates, the irony is hard to miss. Title IX was sold as a shield for female opportunity; in practice, its enforcement has become a cudgel that can be—and has been—turned against women who simply want single-sex spaces, from locker rooms to rifle ranges. If the players’ union truly believes biological females deserve protected categories, they’ve handed the pro-2A community a fresh argument: the same logic that keeps men out of women’s divisions should keep male shooters from erasing female records at Bianchi Cup or the Bianchi Invitational.

More broadly, the episode underscores how culture-war fights over sex and safety inevitably bleed into the gun world. Law-abiding women increasingly rely on firearms for personal protection precisely because single-sex spaces—dorms, shelters, prisons—are being redefined by policy rather than biology. When an athletes’ union insists that only Congress can “strengthen” Title IX, it tacitly admits that rights on paper are only as durable as the political class allows them to be. That’s a lesson the gun-rights community absorbed decades ago: enumerated rights are preserved by vigilance, not by waiting for another agency to issue a new rule. The WNBA stance may be aimed at locker-room doors, but its logic travels straight to gun-range doors—and every woman who trains there should take note.