The Dallas Maverrix minority owner feels that “people are just not ready” to embrace the idea of men who compete in women’s game.
Stephen A. of ESPN on Friday. During an interview with Smith, Cuba insisted that allowing transgender athletes to play against women is not something that “should be pushed down the throat of the people.”
“To make it a national issue so that if you were not supporting less than 10 trans athletes in NCAA, you were not a good person. People are not yet ready for it. You will meet those where they are,” Cuba said. “It takes time, you cannot reduce people’s throat.”
Cuba said, “Instead of trying to find that people who are being deprived of and are being discriminated against help, they wanted to make it a campaign issue. Focusing on helping people, not using them for the campaign.”
American public reflects the feelings of cubes on this subject.
recently New York Times/Ipsos The survey in January found that most Americans, including most democrats, opposed allowing men to compete against women.
“Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said that women who identify biological men should not be allowed to participate in women’s games,” New York Post Informed at that time.
“Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or Tilt Democrats, 67% stated that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.”
Ultimately, Cubbons believe that female athletes should decide for themselves whether to play against men.
“My attitude is that if there is a trans athlete, no matter whether you let the opponent go, whether it is a personal game or a team game, you let them decide whether they want to compete against them or not,” Cuba said.
