Internet agrees as Sen Tuberville blasts Dawn Staley over her support for trans athletes in women sports

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Senator Tommy Tuberville was surprised by South Carolina coach Dawn Staley's remarks regarding transgender athletes participating in women's sports.

Tuberville, who has advocated for policies to prevent transgender athletes from competing on the US Olympic team and in other contexts, discussed Staley's comments on OutKick's 'Hot Mic' before the Gamecocks secured the national championship against the Iowa Hawkeyes.

What did Tuberville say about Staley's comments? 

The 69-year-old Senator said, "If someone wants to really get out there and really challenge her on this, get ‘em a head coaching job in girls basketball and start recruiting men to play and see what she says about that," adding "They would be totally dominated if they went and got backups from some of these college basketball teams and let them play against women." 

"I can’t even believe we’re talking about this. People have lost their minds even thinking about men playing in women’s sports. Title IX is the best thing to ever happen to this place up here. One of the few bills they have passed that’s really made a difference in the last 52 years. And it’s equalized women’s sports and really given them an opportunity to compete and earn the right to be champions in any sport."

He continued, "She just followed the line. She didn’t want to disrupt people’s thoughts about her. She’s obviously an activist along with being a coach because there’s no earthly way she could believe, ‘OK, I want to coach girls against men.’ There’s no way she could believe that, but she said it for that reason. Just don’t understand the direction a lot of these people are going. Stand up." 

"She should be standing up for all those young girls, those young women she was coaching. She just won a national championship and talk about the good things. We’ll take anybody on, but it’s really not right for men to come over and say they want to play in women’s sports. It’s not right. And it’s unfair, and it’s unsafe, " he added.

Staley opened up about trans participation in women sports

During a press conference, Staley was asked about her thoughts on the issue in the US

She said, "I'm of the opinion of, 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. You want me to go deeper?"

When asked whether she thought "transgender women should be able to participate in women's college basketball," Staley responded, "Yes."

Adding up she said, "That's the question you want to ask, I'll give you that. Yes, yes. So, now the barnstormer 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 OK with that. I really am."

Internet talks on Staley's remarks on the issue 

Several social media users lauded Tuberville's thoughts, with a Facebook user saying, "I disagree with her for this matter." 

Another user said, "The coach is so wrong." A user wrote, "I totally disagree with Coach... she is insane." 

Another user wrote, "OMG SC coach not even know what she says." The next user said, "She is out of her mind." A user wrote, "Coach has lost her sanity." 

Another user wrote, "I beleive 99 percent of people will agree with Senator." A user even went on saying, "She is deranged."

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