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Bounces can report that the Women’s Tennis Association has enacted a policy requiring that all WTA players must undergo genetic sex testing in order to maintain their eligibility to compete on the WTA Tour.

While there are zero known transgender women currently active at any level of professional women’s tennis—and there haven’t been any for nearly half a century—the phantom threat of trans women in women’s sports has gained traction in recent years, primarily as a moral panic fomented by Republican lawmakers and pundits seeking a culture-war wedge issue for political benefit.

Now, in a decision that may reflect a political shift in the organization, the WTA Board has decided to heed the movement’s growing traction within sports.

Starting this month, the WTA is taking the unprecedented step of requiring all of its players to undergo genetic testing to weed out any women who may have a specific genetic marker that suggests traces of male biology. This, as far as my research has shown, will make the WTA the first independent professional women’s sports league or tour to mandate such genetic screening for all of its athletes.

🦇💔 SDCC 2026 EXCLUSIVE 💔🦇 I’ve always loved the idea of a girl group called The Manananggalzz, after the Philippine mythological creature that splits itself in half in the night to hunt humans. It’s been on my dream project list to make a fake band shirt for the idea and I’m happy to finally bring it to life for SDCC this year. This one’s for all my Filipina girlies in San Diego. 💅🏽 (and also my playwriting class iykyk.)

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