This week, South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley made it clear that she would be in favor of allowing transgender women to compete in women’s collegiate basketball. But former NBA star Chandler Parsons is not happy about Staley’s position.
During her press conference on Saturday leading up to Sunday’s national title game matchup with the Iowa Hawkeyes, Staley was asked her stance on transgender athletes, and she offered a pretty clear response.
“I’m under the opinion of if you are a woman you should play,” Staley said. “If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports, you should be able to play. That’s my opinion. Do you want me to go deeper? Yes, so now the barnstorm of 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 okay with that.”
But it didn’t seem like Chandler Parsons agreed with this stance.
“so if Zach Edey wants to be a women, he can play against you next season?” Parsons said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
Obviously, Parsons does not seem to think that transgender women should be allowed to play in women’s basketball.
