Mark Cuban speaks out on trans athletes in girls’s sports activities

Dallas Mavericks minority proprietor and “Shark Tank” host Mark Cuban gave his tackle transgender athletes in girls’s sports activities this week. 

Throughout an interview on “The Stephen A. Smith Present” Friday, Cuban recommended trans inclusion shouldn’t be “pushed down folks’s throats.” 

“To make it a nationwide problem in order that in the event you weren’t supporting the less than 10 trans athletes within the NCAA, then you definitely weren’t individual. Individuals simply aren’t prepared for that but. You have to meet folks the place they’re,” Cuban mentioned. “It takes time, you’ll be able to’t simply drive it down folks’s throats.”

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Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks checks his cellphone in the course of the second half of a recreation between the Mavericks and the Orlando Magic on the American Airways Heart in Dallas, Texas, Nov. 3, 2024. (Jerome Miron/Imagn Photographs)

Cuban additionally recommended folks affected by transgender inclusion insurance policies in sports activities shouldn’t be utilized in political campaigns. 

“As a substitute of attempting to get the place the people who find themselves being deprived and being discriminated in opposition to are helped, they wished to make it a marketing campaign problem,” Cuban mentioned. “Give attention to serving to the folks, not utilizing them to marketing campaign.”

A nationwide exit ballot performed by the Involved Girls for America legislative motion committee discovered that 70% of average voters noticed the problem of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and males taking part in women’ and girls’s sports activities and of transgender boys and males utilizing women’ and girls’s loos” as vital to them. 

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Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks in the course of the third quarter of a recreation in opposition to the Miami Warmth at Kaseya Heart on April 10, 2024, in Miami, Fla.  (Megan Briggs/Getty Photographs)

Moreover, 6% mentioned it was an important problem of all, whereas 44% mentioned it was “crucial.”

Cuban additionally recommended he helps girls athletes who select to not compete in opposition to transgender opponents, saying the choice of whether or not to compete in opposition to trans athletes needs to be left as much as the athletes themselves. 

“My angle is that if there’s a trans athlete, it doesn’t matter what aspect, you let the opponent — whether or not it’s a person sport or a workforce sport — you allow them to determine in the event that they need to compete in opposition to them or not,” Cuban mentioned. 

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Cuban, a staunch supporter of former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris and an impassioned critic of President Donald Trump, is likely one of the many distinguished left-wing figures who’ve spoken out in opposition to the Democratic Get together’s stance on trans athlete inclusion. 

Smith has repeatedly referred to as out the Democratic Get together for its stance on trans athletes, suggesting it performed closely into its defeat within the November election. 

HBO host Invoice Maher has additionally criticized Democratic assist for trans inclusion in girls’s sports activities. Even Democratic lawmakers like Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass, and former Montana Sen. Jon Tester have spoken out in opposition to the celebration’s present stance. 

A  New York Occasions/Ipsos survey discovered the overwhelming majority of Individuals, together with a majority of Democrats, do not assume transgender athletes needs to be permitted to compete in girls’s sports activities. Of the two,128 individuals who participated, 79% mentioned organic males who determine as girls shouldn’t be allowed to take part in girls’s sports activities. 

Of the 1,025 individuals who recognized as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% mentioned that transgender athletes shouldn’t be allowed to compete in opposition to girls. 

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