University of South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley is ok with transgender athletes competing in college sports. She delivered that opinion Saturday during a press conference.
“I’m on the opinion of, if you’re a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play. That’s my opinion,” said Staley, whose Gamecocks will face Caitlin Clark and Iowa in the national championship on Sunday.
“The barnstormer people are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me on one of the biggest days of our game, and I’m OK with that. I really am,” Staley added.
South Carolina faces Iowa today for the NCAA championship. This is a poorly timed controversy for women athletes.
A writer for Outkick asked what her opinion is about transgender athletes playing on women’s teams. Staley looked…
