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Dawn Staley: Transgender athletes 'should be able to play' (So. Carolina Women's BB coach)
ESPN ^ | 4.6.2024 | Katie Barnes

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: basketball; failedmaleathletes; savewomenssports; sports; trans; transathletes; womenssports
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To: eyeamok

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?


21 posted on 04/06/2024 3:28:19 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Fred911

Sometimes, the best woman for a job is a man. :-)


22 posted on 04/06/2024 3:30:10 PM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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To: God luvs America

Yes. She would sing a different tune if a bunch of trans dudes whipped her team.


23 posted on 04/06/2024 3:31:29 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: God luvs America

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.


24 posted on 04/06/2024 3:33:02 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: God luvs America

So why bother having women’s sports at all?


25 posted on 04/06/2024 3:38:20 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: God luvs America
Iowa player Caitlin Clark: My gifts are from God.

South Carolina coach Dawn Stanley: I wish some of my players were gifted with nuts.

26 posted on 04/06/2024 3:43:31 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Fred911

“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.


27 posted on 04/06/2024 3:44:51 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: God luvs America
Should someone born palefaced with a uterus, who decides their identity has changed, be allowed to celebrate their new identity, while playing basketball, by presenting themself wearing
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How is a 'transgender' person, presenting themself as a 'woman' any different❓
28 posted on 04/06/2024 3:45:01 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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To: God luvs America

Sounds like she “scouting” for new conquest...uh, I mean players for the scissor tournament.


29 posted on 04/06/2024 4:00:58 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: God luvs America
I'm Joe, and I approved this!


30 posted on 04/06/2024 4:02:30 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((“Surrender often means wisely accommodating to what is beyond our control!” — Sylvia Boorstein.))
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To: Tell It Right

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


31 posted on 04/06/2024 4:13:39 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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To: God luvs America

Another Strong Black Woman toes the party line…..disgraceful. I wonder if her players agree.


32 posted on 04/06/2024 4:14:34 PM PDT by clintonh8r (The truth is hate speech to those who hate the tru)
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To: God luvs America
Since a basketball jersey is basically a wife-beater t-shirt with colors, numbers, and logos, it makes sense for trannies to play girl basketball.

I wonder who would get better ratings; TNBA, or WNBA?

33 posted on 04/06/2024 4:16:33 PM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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To: God luvs America

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.


34 posted on 04/06/2024 4:19:50 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: God luvs America

“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.


35 posted on 04/06/2024 4:23:40 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DeplorablePaul

“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.


36 posted on 04/06/2024 4:24:52 PM PDT by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: willk

Exactly! I don’t care what these psychopath “males” think they are. Put them in a bug house until they get their melons right.


37 posted on 04/06/2024 4:42:50 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Steely Tom

Are you certain they asked Dawn Staley not the trans person Don Stanley?


38 posted on 04/06/2024 5:23:24 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: God luvs America

I just don’t like Dawn Staley. She always seems to be angry and totally unlikeable. Just like Kim Mulkey.


39 posted on 04/06/2024 5:25:20 PM PDT by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: God luvs America

She might have one or two on her team now.....maybe she just wants them on HER team.


40 posted on 04/06/2024 5:27:34 PM PDT by Runner4life
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