{"id":1714626,"date":"2022-10-28T08:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714626"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:19:40","slug":"nba-champion-speaks-out-against-trans-athletes-trying-to-join-professional-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-champion-speaks-out-against-trans-athletes-trying-to-join-professional-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Champion Speaks Out Against Trans Athletes Trying To Join Professional Women\u2019s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnba-champion-speaks-out-against-trans-athletes-trying-to-join-professional-womens-sports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1714626&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former NBA forward Matt Barnes is speaking out against transgender athletes competing against women in professional sports.<\/p>\n<p>When asked during an interview with VladTV what he thought about transgender players playing in the WNBA, Barnes immediately fired back, \u201cI don\u2019t like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, you know, I think if, and this is a deep, to each his own, you want to be whatever you want to be,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I mean, if you\u2019re born a certain [gender] you should play it. Whatever you\u2019re born I, to me, I feel like you should play in that space. I feel like you should, because to me, it\u2019s just you see that the swimmer and all this kind of stuff, and again, I\u2019m pro-make your choice. Do you, do this, but, you know, sports is different. You know, I mean, sports is a different, is a different beast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked what would happen if a top NBA player were to join the WNBA, Barnes said that would \u201cchange the whole dynamic of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s just like, to me, I just like to each his own and respect, you know, whatever personal says you want to make, but when it comes to sports, it\u2019s just, I mean, crossing that line is a line that shouldn\u2019t be crossed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>INTERVIEWER: Tell me what you think about trans players potentially playing for the WNBA? Do you think that will potential change it?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MATT BARNES: I don\u2019t like that. I think, you know, I think if and this is a deep, to each his own, you wanna, you wanna, you want to be whatever you want to be. But I mean, if you\u2019re born a certain you should play it, whatever you\u2019re born I, to me, I feel like you should play in that space. I feel like you should, because to me, it\u2019s just you see that the swimmer and all this kind of stuff, and again, I\u2019m pro-make your choice. Do you, do this, but, you know, sports is different. You know, I mean, sports is a different, is a different beast. You know, you saw I think you\u2019ve seen a trans fighter too, right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>INTERVIEWER: Yeah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BARNES: Yeah. You know what I mean? It\u2019s just to me, it\u2019s, I don\u2019t like that. If you\u2019re born a woman, I think you should play a women\u2019s sports and if you\u2019re born a man I think you should play man sports, but if you want to be, you know, you want to, you know, do whatever you want to do with your life. I respect that. It\u2019s not my business. But, you know, I mean, I just think the sports thing is just a little different.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>INTERVIEWER: Well yeah, but you saw with the swimmer ended up winning a championship on the women\u2019s side, where on the men\u2019s side, he was ranked like 150th. I\u2019ve always said like, imagine if Kevin Durant, put on a wig, and joined the WNBA. Like, what would happen? It\u2019d be like 100, zero, like, every day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BARNES: It would change the whole dynamic of the game, you know what I mean? So it\u2019s just like, to me, I just like to each his own and respect, you know, whatever personal says you want to make, but when it comes to sport, it\u2019s just, I mean, crossing that line is a line that shouldn\u2019t be crossed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>INTERVIEWER: Yeah, I mean, it was I think it was Gilbert Arenas. I think his girls had, I think one of his daughters played in a game with a trans player.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BARNES: Oh, really?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>INTERVIEWER: And actually won.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trans-activists-allegedly-assault-threaten-demonstrators-at-let-women-speak-rally-shuttering-event\">Trans Activists Allegedly Assault, Threaten Demonstrators At \u2018Let Women Speak\u2019 Rally, Shuttering Event<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBA forward Matt Barnes is speaking out against transgender athletes competing against women in professional sports. When asked during an interview with VladTV what he thought about transgender players playing in the WNBA, Barnes immediately fired back, \u201cI don\u2019t like that.\u201d \u201cI think, you know, I think if, and this is a deep, to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1714629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}