Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has said that individual sports leagues should be responsible for deciding who is eligible to compete in women's sports, remarks made amid an ongoing debate within the WNBA over the inclusion of transgender athletes. The league itself has so far declined to comment on her statement, even though its own recently signed collective bargaining agreement with the players' union already states that only female players are eligible to play in the WNBA.

The issue has become increasingly prominent following incidents involving players such as Sophie Cunningham, and after a WNBA coach wore a "Trans Kids Belong" T-shirt during a Fever-Lynx game, while Golden State Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase has publicly defended the inclusion of transgender athletes. Clark's comments add a prominent player's voice to a wider culture-war debate that has been intensifying across women's professional sports, with the WNBA's silence on her remarks likely to draw further scrutiny given the clause already written into its labour agreement.