Two Men Target WNBA Draft & Trump’s “Low-Key” Iran Strategy | 8.10.26

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Men playing in women's sports takes center stage in the national debate as the Senate postpones a key vote on college sports over the issue, while the WNBA announces meetings amid mounting pressure.

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The question becomes, how can an organization that was created to celebrate women, to platform women, is hesitant to defend the very thing that makes women's sports possible?

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I'm Daily Wire, executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, August 10th. This is Morning Wire.

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President Trump says the US is low-keying its negotiations with Iran, as Iran-backed terrorists strike a key port in the Red Sea.

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**John Bickley** (2:29)
A vote on the Protect College Sports Act was postponed in the Senate over the weekend in part due to concerns about men playing in women's sports. The move comes as the debate over trans-identifying men in the WNBA has ratcheted up even further. With the league announcing that it's holding meetings to address the issue, as multiple former NBA players say they're going to try out for the league.

**Georgia Howe** (2:51)
Joining us now with more is Daily Wire reporter and host of That's So Criminal, Lynden Blake. So Lynden, this debate over men in women's sports has been all over the headlines just this past weekend, not only because of the WNBA drama, which we're going to get to, but also because of the Save College Sports Act. So can you just unpack for us what is going on with that in the Senate?

**Lynden Blake** (3:12)
Yeah, the Protect College Sports Act. That was supposed to be voted on Friday. It was held up there in the Senate because it could not get enough support. They say into the wee hours of the morning and to Saturday before they had to leave it at that and try to get back to it later. But it's not going through because it's being shelved after some senators are opposing it, including Tommy Tuberville, who's a former Auburn football coach. You have John Kennedy, among others, in the Save Women's Sports crowd because they were saying that this specific act and the wording of it did not protect Title IX and keep men out of women's sports. So to put it in simple terms, this bill that was introduced by Ted Cruz, among other senators, it was a bipartisan bill.
Because of the lack of clarity and wording, it could potentially override Trump's executive order and any work that states have done individually to keep men out of women's sports. That's the big issue here. They just want that wording redefined. So now this bill has been shelved until September because of the recess. And people are saying even when they meet back next month, it could still drag out further after that.

**John Bickley** (4:13)
Now as we noted at the top, this all comes during this WNBA saga that continues to really escalate. We've had the commissioner now of the league weigh in and talk about some meetings that are going to take place.
This comes after some other major headlines. So what sparked the commissioner to feel like she had to issue a statement?