Renowned Basketball Coach Dawn Staley: Let Trans Women Play Women’s Sports

University of South Carolina’s star women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley lent her support to trans women in sports on Saturday, giving a direct answer at a press conference that left no uncertainty to her position.

When asked by reporters what she thought of trans women being included in women’s sports, Staley said, “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.”

A reporter then asked Staley specifically if she felt that “transgender women should be able to participate,” to which she immediately responded: “Yes. Yes.”

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