{"id":2215914,"date":"2024-04-08T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-womens-basketball-coaches-are-too-cowardly-to-defend-the-existence-of-womens-sports\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T19:13:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T23:13:26","slug":"prominent-womens-basketball-coaches-are-too-cowardly-to-defend-the-existence-of-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prominent-womens-basketball-coaches-are-too-cowardly-to-defend-the-existence-of-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent women&#8217;s basketball coaches are reluctant to stand up for women&#8217;s 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\">24<\/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%2Fprominent-womens-basketball-coaches-are-too-cowardly-to-defend-the-existence-of-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=2215914&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>The text discusses the\u2062 reactions of women&#8217;s \u200dbasketball \u2062coaches, Dawn Staley and Lisa Bluder, to the topic of men competing against women in sports. It highlights Staley&#8217;s\u200b hesitant response and explores the \u200dunderlying\u2062 issues of gender identity in \u2062sports.\u2062 The coaches&#8217; reluctance to address the potential implications of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-gymnasts-free-to-use-changerooms-that-best-reflect-their-gender-identity\/\" title=\"Transgender gymnasts can freely choose changerooms that align with their gender identity.\">mixed-gender competition<\/a> is analyzed, shedding light on \u2062the complexity and controversies surrounding the issue.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welcome to eclipse day 2024, everyone. By the time you read this, the eclipse will likely have already happened. Which presumably means that a large portion of my audience will be raptured, because from what I understand, based on my research on Twitter, the rapture is scheduled for today as well. If you\u2019re reading this, it means that you, like me, have been left behind to walk the Earth and await your eternal destruction. That\u2019s the bad news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The good news is that you still get to watch the premier of my new show \u201cJUDGED\u201d tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. EST. You may not be in the mood for judgment related shows, given the circumstance, but you might as well watch it anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/judged-by-matt-walsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: \u2018JUDGED by Matt Walsh\u2019 on DailyWire+<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, for today\u2019s topic. Dawn Staley is the head coach of the NCAA champion South Carolina Gamecocks, a gold medal Olympian several times over, and a Hall of Famer who\u2019s widely considered one of the best players in the history of the WNBA, as low as that bar might be. This is a resume that sports journalists describe as \u201chistoric.\u201d She\u2019s supposedly a basketball icon, a role model, and one of the greatest coaches alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s often left unsaid, even though everyone knows it\u2019s true, is that Dawn Staley\u2019s resume would have looked a lot different if she had been forced to compete against men at any point in her career. If it weren\u2019t for Title IX and the creation of exclusive sports leagues that barred men from competing, Dawn Staley would probably be selling insurance or conducting tedious DEI workshops somewhere. Instead, she\u2019s a multimillionaire, and you\u2019re instructed to think she\u2019s an impressive person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All this is to say, if anyone should be an evangelist for women-only sports leagues, Dawn Staley fits the bill. Without these leagues, Staley would have precisely zero professional accomplishments to speak of. But Leftism is an ideology that necessarily involves a lot of ladder-pulling. Once they get to the top, it\u2019s vital for Leftists to deny that they received any kind of special help based on their \u201cidentity\u201d along the way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We see this all the time, from Elizabeth Warren to Kamala Harris. And the other day, in a comical press conference ahead of the NCAA national championship, we saw it from Dawn Staley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A reporter from OutKick asked Staley a simple question. He wanted to know what she thought about the idea of men competing against women in sports, particularly in college basketball. Here\u2019s how Staley responded:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">South Carolina women\u2019s coach <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dawnstaley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dawnstaley<\/a> says men pretending to be women should be able to play women\u2019s basketball. Great question by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealDanZak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RealDanZak<\/a>. This is what real reporters are supposed to do. Ask real questions, get real answers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kf9WKk6ylm\">pic.twitter.com\/Kf9WKk6ylm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1776643372444156308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first thing you notice about that reply is how nervous Dawn Staley is. She takes a big gulp of water, drawing laughter from some of the other reporters. Then she says, \u201cDamn, you got deep on me\u201d \u2014 even though it\u2019s really not a deep question at all. She stutters for a few more seconds until she finally delivers maybe the least grammatical sentence she possibly could have: \u201cI\u2019m under the opinion of, if you\u2019re 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.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m not sure what \u201cvice versa\u201d refers to in that sentence. If you\u2019re a woman and you want to play sports, or vice versa. So if you\u2019re a woman and you want to play sports, or if you\u2019re a sport and you want to play women? Is that what she\u2019s saying? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incoherence aside, if Dawn Staley actually believed what she was saying, then there would be no nervousness whatsoever. She would confidently tell the reporter that yes, she has no problem with men competing against her all-women\u2019s team. She would demand that the Olympics and the NCAA change their current policy on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-powerlifting-must-allow-men-to-compete-in-womens-division-after-losing-transgender-discrimination-case\/\" title=\"USA Powerlifting Must Allow Men To Compete In Women\u2019s Division After Losing Transgender Discrimination Case\">trans-identifying athletes<\/a>, which sets sets some arbitrary testosterone threshold that prevents many men from competing. There would be no need for any of the stalling or stammering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Staley did stall and stammer, because she doesn\u2019t believe a word of what she just said. That\u2019s why her answer makes no sense. She lumps \u201cwomen\u201d and \u201cpeople who consider themselves women\u201d into the same category. But in doing so, she\u2019s acknowledging that they are indeed different categories. Actual women don\u2019t \u201cconsider themselves women.\u201d They\u2019re just women. If you feel the need to add the \u201cconsider themselves\u201d qualifier, then you obviously recognize that they are not women. There\u2019s something very different about them \u2014 something that we recognized for all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/20-reasons-liberals-are-so-annoying-to-conservatives\/\" title=\"20 Reasons Liberals Are So Annoying to Conservatives\">recorded human history<\/a> until about 15 minutes ago, which is why Dawn Staley had the career she did.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1342-prominent-women-s-basketball-coaches-are-too-cowardly-to-defend-the-existence-of-women-s-sports-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Dawn Staley doesn\u2019t want to admit this anymore. At the end of her answer, she suggests she\u2019s being brave, because she\u2019s going to anger all the Right-wing \u201cbarnstormers\u201d on social media, whoever they are. But it\u2019s not hard to see what she\u2019s actually worried about. Staley knows that the NCAA has already said that it, \u201cfirmly and unequivocally supports the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports.\u201d She knows the NCAA has already bent the knee to activist groups like GLAAD. And she\u2019s aware that the NCAA is now being sued for Title IX violations by female athletes like Riley Gaines for allowing men to compete against them. On top of that, the University of South Carolina has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trinity-college-pulls-down-patriotic-flags-keeps-blm-and-trans-flags\/\" title=\"Trinity College Pulls Down Patriotic Flags, Keeps BLM and Trans Flags\">trans pride flags<\/a> all over its website. So if she affirmed that biology is real, there\u2019s a good chance she\u2019d be fired, or at least lose her status as America\u2019s favorite female coach. She knows exactly where she\u2019s supposed to stand on this issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And indeed, with her answer, Dawn Staley predictably received a bunch of fawning headlines from Left-wing activists. GLAAD posted a thank-you note and declared that Staley is the \u201cbest in the business.\u201d Pink News declared that Staley\u2019s response was \u201clegendary.\u201d The Advocate called her \u201ctransformative.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By contrast, here\u2019s how supposedly conservative media outlets responded. Fox News ran this headline: \u201cSouth Carolina\u2019s Dawn Staley draws strong reactions over remarks about trans participation in women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this rate, Dawn Staley could announce a roster of 5 men next year, and Fox News would applaud her. Maybe that\u2019s the plan. In any event, this is the dynamic that weak people like Staley respond to. She knows she\u2019ll be applauded for saying the opposite of what she knows is true. And she would be condemned, or worse, if she said what was actually true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In that respect, she wasn\u2019t alone. Iowa\u2019s coach, Lisa Bluder, took a similar approach. Here was her response to the same question from the same reporter:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#8217;s the video and transcript of Bluder&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand it&#8217;s a topic that people are interested in. But today my focus is on the game tomorrow, my players \u2026 and that&#8217;s what I want to be here to talk about. But I know it&#8217;s an important issue for another time.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TRJuAONvPr\">pic.twitter.com\/TRJuAONvPr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lindsay Gibbs (@linzsports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/linzsports\/status\/1776686403969040851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is an answer that\u2019s worse in some ways than Staley\u2019s. At least Dawn Staley said something, as insane as it was. Lisa Bluder is too afraid to even do that. She says she\u2019s focused on the big game. But if men could compete against women in college basketball, then there would be no big game. All women\u2019s sports would cease to exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both of these coaches know that, if they had to compete against any of the top-ranked men\u2019s teams, or any of the men\u2019s teams at all, then they\u2019d be destroyed. But somehow that doesn\u2019t concern Dawn Staley or Lisa Bluder. They can\u2019t bring themselves to say the obvious. So the nonsense continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s a lot of that going around lately, as you may have noticed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A few days ago the reporter Jonathan Choe broke the story that in Seattle, a mentally imbalanced man with comically enhanced breasts has been working as a public defender for several years. If you remember the Canadian wood shop teacher with the size-Z prosthetic chest, it\u2019s a bit like that, except in a courtroom instead of a high school. And this guy is 70-years-old. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to popular demand, I&#8217;m posting the extended cut of my interview with public defender Stephanie Mueller. The transgender attorney is representing one of the far-left activists charged with disrupting a council meeting in February. <br \/>Otherwise, this is Seattle. What&#8217;s the big\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rYo4nrj9Wu\">https:\/\/t.co\/rYo4nrj9Wu<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fuTP4qObvu\">pic.twitter.com\/fuTP4qObvu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/choeshow\/status\/1776129318957318327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, just because the guy is 8 and a half feet tall and has a voice deeper than James Earl Jones apparently, it hasn\u2019t stopped him from trying to be a woman. Now just imagine this for a moment. Imagine you show up to court to meet your public defender. Naturally, you\u2019re going to have low expectations. You get what you pay for, and all that. And then this guy shows up, like a character out of \u201cPortlandia.\u201d How would you respond? How would the judge respond?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apparently, in this case, everyone just acted like this was normal. The defendants didn\u2019t have an issue with it. And that\u2019s not entirely surprising, since they\u2019re Left-wing activists in Seattle accused of interrupting a city council meeting to yell something. They probably requested the trans lawyer, which might not be a bad strategy in a Seattle court. After all, you have to win your case if a trans lawyer is representing you. Otherwise it would be transphobic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Needless to say, the judge had no issue with this, either. A man shows up with skin-tight leather pants, boots, and fake eyelashes \u2014 not exactly courtroom-appropriate attire \u2014 and the judge doesn\u2019t say a word about it. Of course, ironically, if he had actually been a woman, there would likely be an issue. Even in Seattle, courtrooms aren\u2019t burlesque shows. It would be frowned upon for a woman to come dressed like some sort of cartoonish hooker. But because this guy says he\u2019s transgender, it\u2019s magically acceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve mentioned the Rebel News reporter David Menzies in the past. A few months ago, he was the only journalist in all of Canada to report on the fact that a 50-year-old man was allowed to compete against teenage girls in various competitions throughout the country. For reporting like that, Menzies has been arrested multiple times by the Canadian government. Just this weekend, he was assaulted and arrested again by police, for covering pro-Hamas protests in Toronto. It\u2019s all on video. But Menzies persists anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s quite a contrast with what we\u2019ve seen this week in this country, which is story after story of cowardice. Think about it: If there was ever a weekend for women\u2019s sports to have its \u201cmoment,\u201d it was this one. Instead, the coaches of the top two teams declared at a press conference that they don\u2019t even know what women are. They also made it very clear, from their ambivalence, that they don\u2019t really care if women\u2019s sports stick around anymore. They\u2019ll probably change their mind when the money dries up. When they lose their jobs and are made irrelevant. But it requires some foresight to see that, and courage to speak up about it. Sadly, those two things are in short supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the 2024 eclipse day! By now, the eclipse has likely passed. If you&#8217;re here reading this, it seems the rapture was postponed. Twitter research suggested a double event today. 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