CNN is “disgusting and bigoted” for refusing to acknowledge him as a transgender female declaring eligibility for the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft, former NBA player Royce White said Thursday.
“CNN this is so disgusting and bigoted. 2 cis women refusing to affirm my Black Trans Lesbian identity,” White wrote in a social media post, commenting on an embedded clip of CNN’s coverage of his announcement that he has decided to identify as a woman so he can play in the women’s professional league, which has previously had a transgender player and may allow a biological male playing in a French female league to enter the WNBA draft.
“1 of them is White, so that’s her white privilege and the other is a self hating Uncle Tom bootlicker! They are gatekeeping femininity and womanhood,” White continued, employing liberal activist mantras.
CNN this is so disgusting and bigoted. 2 cis women refusing to affirm my Black Trans Lesbian identity. 1 of them is White, so that’s her white privilege and the other is a self hating Uncle Tom bootlicker! They are gatekeeping femininity and womanhood.
Royce White for President… pic.twitter.com/DnAZlrZKq0— Royce White 🇺🇸 (@Highway_30) August 13, 2026
In other posts responding to attacks, threats and criticism, White invokes even more liberal clichés:
- “To my Black Trans Lesbians, BIPOC Trans and Trans adjacent... Don't let people rain on your parade! These mainstream media outlets and commentators are dead naming me or misgendering me, it's GENOCIDE. People on the left are spewing a lot of nonbinary hate. Silence is violence, where are all the advocates and allies? Who are they to tell me I'm not a Black woman? I'm slayyyyyin, kweeeens stand up! CLOCK IT!”
- “Genitalia doesn't determine gender. That's a cis normative fallacy. My trans-affirming doctor told me I can think of my genitalia as 9 inches of clitoris.”
- “That’s hate, I’ve lived as Trans for over a week now! You’re denying my existence. When you deny Trans our identity it’s genocide.”
- “My body, my choice! You don't tell a Black woman what to do with her body.”
- “You misgendered me again. That's toxic heteronormative bigotry... We've moved on from that way of thinking about womanhood. Why are you so pressed? We only make up a tiny percentage of the population. You're obsessed, you must be jealous of STRONG beautiful Black kweeeens!”
- “Don't tell me how to be a Black woman! Taking hormones are optional. The idea that a Trans woman has to subject herself to BIG PHARMA, is just another way for cis normative people to turn us into a commodity. I’m an ALL NATURAL Black trans lesbian with a penile aesthetic.”
- “I’ve been misgendered and dead named by the Democrats for days now… This is what hate looks like boo boo. You really need to do some soul searching and figure out why you’re still living in cis gender bigotry. Black Trans Lives Matter! We have always mattered, we will always matter. If you don’t refer to me as kweeeen, you hate Black women.”
- “I haven't even been publicly trans for 72 hours and I'm already getting so much hate. I just want to hoop with my girls in my feminine era! Why can't y'all be happy for me?”
In yet another swipe at transgender ideologues, White even adopted self-identifying pronouns:
White’s campaign to play in the WNBA appears to be an effort to draw attention to the incongruity of allowing biological males to compete against, and dominate, female athletes by simply “identifying” as females.
