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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Because there is no ‘glory’ in that, no publicity, they can’t expose themselves to children, they can’t watch female women and children undress and they can’t beat up women?
Sometimes, the best woman for a job is a man. :-)
Yes. She would sing a different tune if a bunch of trans dudes whipped her team.
Just because you don’t like your sex doesn’t mean you get to play on another team of the opposite sex.
Sports don’t care about your feelings. Yet again, women encouraging unsafe practices for other women.
Unreal - never thought you could silence the feminazis, yet here they are being silenced BY MEN.
So why bother having women’s sports at all?
South Carolina coach Dawn Stanley: I wish some of my players were gifted with nuts.
“Staley will soon learn that the best players in women’s basketball are men.”
Well, there is a WNBA draft but I don’t think they allow men to be drafted.
Sounds like she “scouting” for new conquest...uh, I mean players for the scissor tournament.
Staley was questioned for professing her faith in God
“ Dawn Staley thinks something’s wrong with you if you don’t believe in her god” related to this statement, “If you don’t believe in God, something’s wrong with you,” Staley said as her team celebrated its Elite Eight win over Oregon State behind her on Sunday. “I’m a believer. I’m a believer because he makes things come true. When you’re at your worst, he’s at his best. Look at him.”
Quite a conundrum
Another Strong Black Woman toes the party line…..disgraceful. I wonder if her players agree.
I wonder who would get better ratings; TNBA, or WNBA?
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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Bullshit. ESPN, is well known to make everything in sports political and to ceaselessly and relentlessly stack the deck for every lefty cause there is. An ESPN staffer saying “gender identity has grown heated” is like a cheerleader leading a cheer at a pep rally!
We all need to quit ACCEPTING ANYTHING said by marxists staffer punks at companies like ESPN.
“Dawn Staley: Transgender athletes ‘should be able to play’
Bonemaker: Transgender athletes should NOT be able to play and should go to hell backwards and do themselves on the way down. You too Staley.
“Yes. She would sing a different tune if a bunch of trans dudes whipped her team.”
I wish 4 from the Iowa’s men’s team could play with Clark.
Exactly! I don’t care what these psychopath “males” think they are. Put them in a bug house until they get their melons right.
Are you certain they asked Dawn Staley not the trans person Don Stanley?
I just don’t like Dawn Staley. She always seems to be angry and totally unlikeable. Just like Kim Mulkey.
She might have one or two on her team now.....maybe she just wants them on HER team.
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