Over the weekend, South Carolina Gamecocks head basketball coach Dawn Staley made it clear that she would support transgender women competing in women’s basketball. And apparently, one Fox News pundit thinks allowing transgender athletes to play is going to result in Caitlin Clark getting “dunked on by transgenders” in the WNBA.
On Tuesday’s episode of The Five, Fox News pundit Dana Perino disagreed with Staley’s decision to welcome transgender athletes come up with a wild hypothetical scenario in which this year’s top WNBA draft picks — like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese — have their play overshadowed by trans players at the next level the very next year.
“Imagine that all of a sudden, they go to the WNBA after the draft,” she said, adding, “And next year, they’re getting dunked on by transgenders. And you think there wouldn’t be an outrage? Especially on the salary point. The scholarship point we already know; and then what if one of them gets injured by one and their careers are over? That’s what’s happening to some of these collegiate girls. That one girl in North Carolina, she’ll never be the same.”
Obviously, this is a wild and unrealistic hypothetical considering there are so few transgender women competing in sports at all and none in the WNBA or even high-level collegiate basketball. There’s also no evidence at all of anybody transitioning for the purpose of dominating women’s sports, as much of the anti-trans rhetoric seems to suggest.
But that isn’t stopping Perino.
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