The minority owner of Dallas Mavericks and the host of “Shark Tank”, Mark Cuban, gave their opinion on transgender athletes in women’s sports this week.
During an interview in “The Stephen A. Smith Show” on Friday, Cuban suggested that trans inclusion should not be “pushed by people’s throats.”
“To make it a national problem so that if you were not supporting less than 10 trans athletes in the NCAA, then you were not a good person. People are simply not ready for that. You have to meet people where they are,” Cuban said. “You need time, you can’t force it for people’s throats.”
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Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks reviews his phone during the second half of a game between the Mavericks and the Orlando Magic at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, on 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 reach people who are being disadvantaged and discriminated against, they wanted to turn it into a campaign problem,” Cuban said. “Grant to help people, not use them to campaign.”
TO national output survey Made by the Legislative Women’s Action Committee for Women for America, it found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender children and men who interpret sports of girls and women and women and transgender men and men who use girls and women’s baths” as is important for them.
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Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks during the third quarter of a game against the Miami Heat at the Kaseya Center on April 10, 2024 in Miami, Fla. (Megan Briggs/Getty images)
In addition, 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
Cuban also suggested that support athletes who choose not to compete against transgender competitors, saying that the decision to compete against trans athletes should be left in the athletes themselves.
“My attitude is that if there is a trans athlete, no matter what side, let the opponent, whether an individual sport or a team sport, let them decide if they want to compete against them or not,” Cuban said.
Cuban, a firm defender of former President Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris and a passionate critic of President Donald Trump, is one of the many prominent leftist figures who have spoken against the position of the Democratic Party about the inclusion of trans athletes.
Smith has repeatedly called the Democratic Party for his position on Trans athletes, suggesting that he played a lot in his defeat in the November elections.
HBO host, Bill Maher, also criticized democratic support for trans inclusion in women’s sports. Even Democratic legislators such as representative Seth Maulton, D-Mass, and former Montana senator, Jon Tester, have spoken against the current party position.
TO New York Times/Ipsos Survey He discovered that the vast majority of Americans, including most Democrats, do not believe that transgender athletes are allowed to compete in women’s sports. Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said that biological men who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
Of the 1,025 people who identified themselves as Democrats or inclined Democrats, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against women.
