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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: God luvs America

Dang ..I’ll never be on a women’s team...or,shower with them.


41 posted on 04/06/2024 5:31:10 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: God luvs America

She probably wouldn’t have a job unless she answered yes.


42 posted on 04/06/2024 5:31:16 PM PDT by alternatives? (`)
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To: alternatives?

South Carolina?? I tend to doubt it....now she’s going to get a ton of sh!t


43 posted on 04/06/2024 5:39:37 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

GOOOOO GAME-TRANS-COCKS!!!!!


44 posted on 04/06/2024 5:49:43 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Guns don't kill people, Democrats do. )
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To: God luvs America

Have their own league and leave ‘real’ women alone.


45 posted on 04/06/2024 5:51:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer (~A Bizjet Is Nothing But An Executive Mailing Tube ~)
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To: God luvs America

Let the XX play only against the XX and let the XY play only against the XY.


46 posted on 04/06/2024 5:52:55 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: God luvs America
Iowa UConn was the game... Dawn Stale should recruit all mentally ill male basketball players if she want mentally ill males to play.

Go Iowa ..

47 posted on 04/06/2024 6:25:53 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: God luvs America; DeplorablePaul; NautiNurse
Outrageous! We live in SC, but absolutely cannot root for the USC women’s basketball team ever because of this idiot Dawn Staley. 😡

Go Iowa!!

48 posted on 04/06/2024 6:29:12 PM PDT by nutmeg (FJB)
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To: God luvs America

Bring back Shaquilla O’Neal.


49 posted on 04/06/2024 7:07:15 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: God luvs America

I would bet USC is as woke as all universities.


50 posted on 04/06/2024 7:26:58 PM PDT by alternatives? (`)
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To: Fungi

You taught me a new word tonight!


51 posted on 04/06/2024 9:24:29 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Liberalism is a tyranny that MUST be overthrown.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Good for you....and thank you...


52 posted on 04/06/2024 9:26:13 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: God luvs America

So…. Who on the South Carolina men’s team agreed to be the tranny ringer for tonight’s game?


53 posted on 04/07/2024 5:42:11 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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