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Julie Tétart’s record-breaking season in France sparks WNBA debate

The 34-year-old centre led Ligue Féminine 2 in scoring and rebounding while expressing openness to a WNBA offer

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What this story says

  • Julie Tétart, a 34-year-old transgender basketball player, averaged 21 points and 20 rebounds per game in France’s Ligue Féminine 2 (LF2) during the 2025-26 season, setting a league rebounding record.
  • Tétart won LF2 Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Domestic Player of the Year, but was not voted MVP, sparking allegations of a trans-exclusionary snub.
  • She told OutKick she would not reject a WNBA offer if contacted, though she described her age and the presence of better players as barriers.
  • The story gained traction amid ongoing debates over transgender participation in women’s sports, including recent controversy involving WNBA player Sophie Cunningham.

Who covered it

Left 5%(1)Centre 21%(4)Right 74%(14)

Percentages are shares of the 19 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .

Trust

74/100

Craft

58/100

Hype

42/100

19 sources · methodology

Missing from the left

Only 1 of the 19 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Julie Tétart, a 34-year-old centre for Monaco Basket Association in France’s Ligue Féminine 2 (LF2), completed one of the most statistically dominant seasons in the league’s history during the 2025-26 campaign. She averaged 21 points and 20 rebounds per game, leading the league in both categories. In March 2026, she set a new LF2 single-game rebounding record with 30 rebounds, alongside 21 points.

Tétart, who came out as a transgender woman in October 2021, swept the league’s major individual awards, winning LF2 Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Domestic Player of the Year. She was also named Player of the Week 15 times. Despite her performance, she was not voted MVP, a decision that drew criticism from French transgender advocacy group TRANSpire, which alleged the snub was deliberate. Another transgender player, Aurore Pautou, was also excluded from postseason awards despite averaging 14.4 points and 7.7 rebounds per game.

Asked about the possibility of playing in the WNBA, Tétart told OutKick she would not reject an offer if contacted. She described it as a "childhood dream" but added, "I'm old, and there are far better players than me." She cited broader political conditions in the United States as a potential obstacle, without specifying further. No WNBA team has publicly indicated interest in signing her.

What the coverage left out

No left-rated outlet ran this story at all. None of the right-rated digests mentioned the specific political conditions in the United States that Tétart cited as a potential obstacle to a WNBA career. Only the Times of India’s full report included this detail, quoting Tétart without elaborating on what she meant. The centre-rated reports from Hindustan Times and Marca also omitted this aspect of her comments.

Tags:#TransgenderAthletes#WNBA#Basketball#France#SportsPolitics

Coverage settled. We checked this 119 times and stopped on 11 Aug 2026, 09:16. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

1 rated outlet

We have not written our reading of the left coverage of this story. The left-rated outlets that ran it are listed below.

Centre

4 rated outlets

  • The two centre-rated reports, from Hindustan Times and Marca, led on Tétart’s on-court achievements and her openness to a WNBA career. Hindustan Times detailed her statistical dominance, including her 30-rebound game and her sweep of the league’s major awards. It also reported the allegations from TRANSpire that Tétart and Pautou were deliberately excluded from the MVP ballot. The outlet quoted Tétart’s response to the WNBA question directly: "If they contact me, I won't say no."
  • Marca’s digest, though brief, framed the story around Tétart’s desire to play in the WNBA amid controversy, using her own words: "I won't say no." Neither centre-rated report focused on the political or cultural debates surrounding transgender athletes in women’s sports.

Right

14 rated outlets

  • All ten right-rated digests and the two full reports from Times of India and Breitbart led on Tétart’s potential move to the WNBA, often linking it to broader debates over transgender participation in women’s sports. The Times of India’s full report connected Tétart’s comments to the controversy involving WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, who faced suspension after stating she opposed transgender athletes in women’s sports. The outlet quoted Cunningham: "I said what I said. I think it's kind of common sense."
  • Breitbart’s full report, headlined "French Trans Basketball Star Says He'd Accept WNBA Offer if League Came Calling," used male pronouns to describe Tétart and framed the story around the WNBA’s "supposed commitment to be 'inclusive'." The Daily Wire’s digest, headlined "Coming To WNBA? Man Dominates Women’s Basketball Overseas," also used male pronouns and led with the question of whether Tétart’s success would test the WNBA’s inclusivity policies.
  • Fox News’s digest, via OutKick, reported that conservative commentator Clay Travis had targeted Tétart as the potential face of a proposed WNBA expansion team in Nashville. The New York Post’s digest used Tétart’s own words in its headline: "Dominating French trans basketball player implores WNBA for chance to play: ‘Won’t say no.’" GB News’s digest quoted Tétart describing the WNBA as a "childhood dream."
  • None of the right-rated digests mentioned the allegations from TRANSpire that Tétart and Pautou were excluded from the MVP ballot due to their transgender status. The Times of India’s full report was the only right-rated outlet to include this detail.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Julie Tétart’s record-breaking season in France sparks WNBA debate?
Of the 19 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 5% are rated left, 21% are rated centre, 74% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Julie Tétart’s record-breaking season in France sparks WNBA debate left or right?
The story itself is neither. What can be counted is who has covered it, and 74% of the 19 rated outlets on it are rated right — so far this is a story carried mostly by the right. Coverage of this one has settled, so that is unlikely to move much now.
Is the coverage of Julie Tétart’s record-breaking season in France sparks WNBA debate biased?
Julie Tétart’s record-breaking season in France sparks WNBA debate is one event reported by 19 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Julie Tétart’s record-breaking season in France sparks WNBA debate?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Julie Tétart’s record-breaking season in France sparks WNBA debate?
19 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What records did Julie Tétart set in the 2025-26 LF2 season?
Tétart averaged 21 points and 20 rebounds per game, leading Ligue Féminine 2 in both categories. In March 2026, she set a new single-game rebounding record with 30 rebounds, alongside 21 points. She also won LF2 Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and Domestic Player of the Year.
Did Julie Tétart say she would join the WNBA?
Tétart told OutKick she would not reject a WNBA offer if contacted, describing it as a "childhood dream." She added that her age and the presence of better players made the prospect unlikely, and cited broader political conditions in the United States as a potential obstacle.
Why was Julie Tétart’s exclusion from the LF2 MVP ballot controversial?
French transgender advocacy group TRANSpire alleged that Tétart and another transgender player, Aurore Pautou, were deliberately excluded from the MVP ballot despite strong seasons. Tétart won other major awards but was not voted MVP, a decision critics linked to her transgender status.
Which outlets covered Julie Tétart’s story, and which did not?
The story was covered by two centre-rated outlets (Hindustan Times, Marca) and ten right-rated outlets, including Times of India, Breitbart, and Fox News. No left-rated outlet ran the story, a gap noted in the coverage comparison.

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