This weekend, South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley made it very clear that she supports transgender athletes competing in women’s basketball. But South Carolina star Kamilla Cardoso did not seem quite as willing to discuss that issue.
“I’m under the opinion of if you are a woman, you should play,” Staley said this weekend, according to Fox News. “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 when Kamilla Cardoso was asked her thoughts on transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, she chose to ignore the question completely.
“Just enjoy the moment, have fun, just stay together, just have fun,” Cardoso said as she sidestepped the question, according to Fox News.
Staley’s comments regarding transgender athletes certainly resulted in a lot of criticism and a lot of attention from the media. It seems that Cardoso is trying her best to avoid that same attention and criticism.
[Fox News]
