Owner of the Dallas Mavericks minority and host of “shark tanks” Mark Cuba This week, I gave his opinion to trans athletes in women’s sports.
Interviewed “Stephen A. Smith Shaw” On Friday, Cuba proposed trans-inclusion to “push people’s throats down.”
“If you don’t support less than 10 NCAA trans athletes, you weren’t a good person. People aren’t ready yet. You have to meet the person they have.” “It takes time. You can’t just push people’s throats down.”
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Dallas Mavericks’ Mark Cuban will check his phone later in the match between Maverick and the Orlando Magic on November 3, 2024 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. (Jerome Miron/Imagn Images)
Cuba also suggested that those affected by transgender inclusion policies in sports should not be used in political campaigns.
“Instead of trying to get a place where people who are at a disadvantage and discriminated can help, they wanted it to be a campaign issue,” Cuba said. “Focus on supporting people rather than using them in campaigns.”
a National exit survey What the US Legislative Action Committee undertakes for the women involved found that 70% of moderate voters “donald Trump considers transgender boys and men playing girls and women’s sports and transgender boys and men using girls and women’s bathrooms important to them.
Mark Cuba for the Dallas Mavericks in the third quarter of their match against the Miami Heat at the Caseya Center in Miami, Florida, April 10, 2024. (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)
Additionally, 6% said it was the most important question of all, and 44% said it was “very important.”
Cuba also suggested supporting female athletes who choose not to compete with their transgender competitors, saying the decision to compete with trans athletes should be left to the athletes themselves.
“My attitude has made my opponent decide whether they want to compete with them, whether it’s an individual sport or a team sport, if they have trans athletes, no matter what aspect it is,” Cuban said.
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Cuban, a solid supporter of former President Joe Biden, former vice president Kamala Harris and avid critic President Donald Trumpone of many prominent leftists who opposed the Democratic stance on trans-athlete inclusion.
Smith repeatedly called on Democrats for his stance on trans-athletes, suggesting he was greatly defeated in the November election.
HBO host Bill Maher also criticizes democratic support for women’s trans-inclusion in sports. flat Democrat lawmakers Like Senator Seth Moulton, D-Mass and former Montana Senator John Tester, he opposed the party’s current stance.
a New York Times/Ipsos Survey The vast majority of Americans, including the majority of Democrats, have discovered that they do not believe that trans athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 participants, 79% identified as women, biological men, said they should not be allowed to participate in female sports.
Of the 1,025 identified as Democrats or Democrats they rely on, 67% said trans athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
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