diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
index 327a374b4e40b..41378a97dce39 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.20.3.txt
@@ -57,3 +57,4 @@ Reshaping
 Categorical
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+-- Bug in ``DataFrame.sort_values`` not respecting the ``kind`` parameter with categorical data (:issue:`16793`)