S.C. Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley Says Transgender Athletes ‘Should Be Able to Play’ in NCAA

ZEKSHESKE: “Dan Zeksheske, Outkick. Coach, you just talked about what a massive weekend this is, obviously, for women’s basketball, women’s sports in general. One of the major issues facing women’s sports right now is the debate discussion topic about the inclusion of transgender athletes, biological males in women’s sports. I was wondering if you would tell me your position on that issue.”
STALEY: “Um... Man, you got deep on me there. I — I — I’m on the — I mean, I’m on the opinion of — if you’re a woman, you should play. If you consider yourself a woman and you wanna play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play. That’s — that’s my opinion. You want me to go deeper?”
ZEKSHESKE: “Do you think transgender women should be able to participate — “
STALEY: “That’s your question you want me to ask — I mean, you want to ask, so I’ll give you that. Yes. Yes. So now, the barnstorm of people are gonna flood my timeline and be a distraction in me on one of the biggest days of — of our game, and I’m okay with that. I really am.”