diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
index 0937a6430b07f..327a374b4e40b 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
@@ -57,5 +57,3 @@ Reshaping
 Categorical
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-
-- Bug in ``DataFrame.sort_values`` not respecting the ``kind`` with categorical data (:issue:`16793`)