Mark Cuban weighs in on transgender athletes in women's sports: 'People just aren't ready'

Dallas Mavericks number proprietor and "Shark Tank" big Mark Cuban gave his instrumentality connected transgender athletes successful women's sports this week. 

During an interrogation connected "The Stephen A. Smith Show" Friday, Cuban suggested trans inclusion should not beryllium "pushed down people's throats." 

"To marque it a nationalist contented truthful that if you weren’t supporting the less than 10 trans athletes successful the NCAA, past you weren’t a bully person. People conscionable aren’t acceptable for that yet. You've got to conscionable radical wherever they are," Cuban said. "It takes time, you can’t conscionable unit it down people’s throats."

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Cuban besides suggested radical affected by transgender inclusion policies successful sports should not beryllium utilized successful governmental campaigns. 

"Instead of trying to get wherever the radical who are being disadvantaged and being discriminated against are helped, they wanted to marque it a run issue," Cuban said. "Focus connected helping the people, not utilizing them to campaign."

A national exit canvass conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw the contented of "Donald Trump’s absorption to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls' and women’s bathrooms" arsenic important to them. 

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Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks during the 3rd 4th of a crippled against the Miami Heat astatine Kaseya Center connected April 10, 2024, successful Miami, Fla.  (Megan Briggs/Getty Images)

Additionally, 6% said it was the astir important contented of all, portion 44% said it was "very important."

Cuban besides suggested helium supports women athletes who take not to vie against transgender competitors, saying the determination of whether to vie against trans athletes should beryllium near up to the athletes themselves. 

"My cognition is if there’s a trans athlete, nary substance what side, you fto the hostile — whether it’s an idiosyncratic athletics oregon a squad athletics — you fto them determine if they privation to vie against them oregon not," Cuban said. 

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Cuban, a staunch protagonist of erstwhile President Joe Biden and erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris and an impassioned professional of President Donald Trump, is 1 of the galore salient left-wing figures who person spoken retired against the Democratic Party's stance connected trans jock inclusion. 

Smith has repeatedly called retired the Democratic Party for its stance connected trans athletes, suggesting it played heavy into its decision successful the November election. 

HBO big Bill Maher has besides criticized Democratic enactment for trans inclusion successful women's sports. Even Democratic lawmakers similar Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass, and erstwhile Montana Sen. Jon Tester person spoken retired against the party's existent stance. 

A  New York Times/Ipsos survey recovered the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports. Of the 2,128 radical who participated, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports. 

Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democrat, 67% said that transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie against women. 

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