The owner of the Dallas Mavericks minority and the host of “Shark Tank” Mark Cuban gave his point of view on transgender athletes in female sports this week.
Friday, during an interview on “The Stephen A. Smith Show”, Cuban suggested that the inclusion trans should not be “pushed into the throat of people”.
“To make it a national problem so that if you do not support the under 10 trans in the NCAA, then you were not a good person. People are not yet ready for that. You have to meet people where they are,” said Cuban. “It takes time, you can’t just force him in people’s throat.”
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Mark Cuban of Dallas Mavericks checks his phone during the second half of a match between the Mavericks and the Orlando Magic at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, November 3, 2024. (Jerome Miron / Imagn images)
Cuban also suggested that people affected by transgender inclusion policies in sports should not be used in political campaigns.
“Instead of trying to go where people who are disadvantaged and who are discriminated against, they wanted to make it a campaign problem,” said Cuban. “Concentrate on people’s help, not to use them to campaign.”
A National exit survey Directed by the Legislative Action Committee for women concerned for women for America revealed that 70% of moderate voters saw the question of “Donald Trump’s opposition to boys and transgender men playing sports for girls and women and transgender boys and men using bathrooms and women” as important for them.
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Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks in the third quarter match against Miami Heat at Kaseya Center on April 10, 2024, in Miami, Florida. (Megan Briggs / Getty Images)
In addition, 6% said it was everyone’s most important problem, while 44% said it was “very important”.
Cuban also suggested that he supported female athletes who choose not to compete with transgender competitors, saying that the decision to compete against the trans athletes should be left to the athletes themselves.
“My attitude is that if there is a trans athlete, no matter what side, you leave the opponent – whether it is an individual sport or a team sport – you let them decide whether they want to compete or not,” said Cuban.
Cuban, a fervent supporter of former president Joe Biden and former vice-president Kamala Harris and a passionate critic of President Donald Trump, is one of the many left-wing personalities who have spoken against the position of the Democratic Party on the inclusion of Trans athletes.
Smith has repeatedly called the Democratic Party for his position on trans athletes, suggesting that he played strongly in his defeat in the November elections.
The HBO host Bill Maher also criticized democratic support for trans inclusion in female sports. Even Democratic legislators such as the representative Seth Moulton, D-MASS and the former Senator of Montana Jon Testing were pronounced against the current position of the Party.
A New York Times / Ipsos survey Found that the vast majority of Americans, including the majority of Democrats, do not think that transgender athletes should be allowed to participate in female sports. Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said that biological men who identify themselves as women should not be allowed to participate in female sports.
Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete with women.
