Daybreak Staley media protection could have influenced reply on trans athletes in ladies’s sports activities, OutKick author says

South Carolina coach Daybreak Staley’s help for transgender athletes in ladies’s sports activities went viral over the weekend forward of the Gamecocks’ nationwide championship win over Iowa.

OutKick author Dan Zaksheske appeared on “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich” on Monday and assessed what he thought of Staley’s reply. He pointed to an issue with those that cowl ladies’s school basketball, suggesting the Corridor of Famer’s reply was influenced by the safety she’s acquired.

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“I do suppose there’s an issue, going again to my earlier reply on how there actually isn’t a ladies’s school basketball media, she’s so protected,” Zaksheske mentioned. “They defend the heck out of her. I virtually really feel like she knew that that’s the reply they needed, and so they have completed her a lot good service overlaying her. It’s all the time optimistic, besides the God stuff.”

“Aside from that, they love all the things she stands for. She’s Black. She talks about racism. She talks about misogyny. She does all the things they need her to do. They only defend and promote her. I don’t consider that Daybreak Staley believes that. That’s my opinion.

“Primarily based on her spiritual leanings and simply the truth that she’s been in ladies’s school basketball for so long as she has. You suppose she needs males in ladies’s school basketball? I don’t suppose so. I believe that second when she took 15 seconds, it was an inside battle: ‘What do I do? Do I say what I believe, which goes to make the media that loves me mad at me? Or do I facet with them?’ That’s a selection and he or she made it.”

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Staley’s reply got here on Saturday because the group ready for the nationwide championship.

“I am of the opinion of, for those who’re a girl, you must play. In the event you think about your self a girl, and also you wish to play sports activities or vice versa, you must be capable of play. That is my opinion. You need me to go deeper?” she mentioned.

When requested whether or not she thought “transgender ladies ought to be capable of take part in ladies’s school basketball,” Staley responded, “Sure.”

“That is the query you wish to ask, I will offer you that. Sure, sure. So, now the barnstormer individuals are going to flood my timeline and be a distraction to me on one of many largest days of our sport, and I am OK with that. I actually am,” she added.

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Staley’s remarks kicked off a debate on social media.

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