Posted on 04/06/2024 3:02:45 PM PDT by God luvs America
CLEVELAND -- South Carolina women's basketball coach Dawn Staley said Saturday that she believes transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sports.
During a news conference a day after her No. 1 Gamecocks beat NC State in the Final Four to advance to the national championship game against Iowa, the legendary coach was asked for her opinion on the issue.
"I'm of the opinion that if you're a woman, you should play," Staley said. "If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports, or vice versa, you should be able to play."
Hours later, Iowa coach Lisa Bluder was asked the same question.
"I understand it's a topic that people are interested in," Bluder said. "But today my focus is on the game tomorrow, my players. It's an important game we have tomorrow, and that's what I want to be here to talk about. But I know it's an important issue for another time."
The debate over whether transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in accordance with their gender identity has grown heated in statehouses, courthouses, sport governing bodies and the court of public opinion over the past four years.
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2- I really wish Iowa could put 5 dudes on the basketball court that were 6-foot-8 so they could smash Stanley's South Carolina team
Thanks for putting your two cents in, Dawn Staley.
Has Brittney Griner been asked this same question?
They absolutely should be able to play... other mentally ill “transgender” athletes.
Why can’t the pretenders just start their own league with their own teams of pretenders?
Letting them play may end women’s sports, if all NCAA sports are not ended by NIL and the portal.
fighting for women’s rights. nice
Sure. They can have their OWN teams. Leave the normal people alone.
Staley will soon learn that the best players in women’s basketball are men
That would defeat the whole purpose of drawing attention to themselves which is really what it is all about. Nobody would complain about or take much notice of a transgender league beyond their friends and relatives and the alphabet mafia. Men pretending to be women, playing in women’s sports say look at me, aren’t I special, I can dominate this sport...
The first trans elbow smashed to the face of one of her players or run over with strength will change her mind. Usually consequences need to be imposed before the ignorant and politicians have their come to Jesus moment.
Shut up and dribble.
I was wondering just last night while watching the final 4 when men will invade the game and libtards will stupidly let them
“Transgender athletes ‘should be able to play’ (So. Carolina Women’s BB coach)”
Actually this MAKES SENSE (for once), at least if she wants her team to win.
So, Dawn wants to pick up all the guys who don’t make the varsity?
Exactly.
Well said.
In hell.
Then give them their own league where only circus freaks play circus freaks. Keep biological men out of women’s sports.
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