Transgender athletes in college sports have been the target of Donald Trump’s ire since he took office. Under his administration, it won’t exist. Initially, one state (Maine) refused to comply, leading to a massive legal battle.
Now he is seeing a major sports owner disagree with him as well.
Donald Trump Has Professional Sports Owner Disagree With Transgender Ban (Report)
Cuban believes the country isn’t ready for transgender athletes to compete in female sports:
The Dallas Mavericks owner and “Shark Tank” host made the assertion in an interview on an episode of “The Stephen A. Smith Show” last week.
“The whole sports — trans sports issue, you know, is like an old Willie Horton thing,” Cuban said in his interview with Smith. “You know my attitude is, if there’s a trans athlete, no matter, what side you let the opponent, whether it’s an individual sport or a team sport, you let them decide if they wanted to compete against them or not. If they feel they can win, if they feel it’s not fair, it’s up to them.”
Cuban said the topic should not have been forced “down people’s throats.” He also said those who objected to males competing in female sports should not have been demonized or vilified.
His words also suggested he didn’t find anything objectionable with boys competing against girls. Instead, it seemed he felt that society needed time to adjust to the issue, stating, “It takes time.” Then, after an unspecified amount of societal convincing and persuasion, it would eventually be accepted.
“But to make it just a national issue so that if you weren’t supporting the fewer than 10 trans athletes in the NCAA, then, you know, you weren’t a good person, I just — people aren’t ready for that yet,” Cuban said.
“And you’ve got to meet people where they are. We’ve taken this country so far in race relationships, uh, relations and, um, attitudes towards, towards LGBTQ. You know, it takes time. You can’t just force it down people’s throats.”
Cuban then specified that boys competing in girls’ sports should never have become a campaign topic or a political debate.
“And instead of trying to get it where the people who were being disadvantaged and being discriminated against are helped, they wanted to make it a campaign issue,” Cuban added. “Focus on helping the people, not using them to campaign.”
Fans were eager to react to Cuban’s opinion:
Yes we are not ready for men in women’s sports.
I’m also not ready for farts that are actually diarrhea in disguise.
It rarely happens, but when it does it ruins everybody’s flight.
— CoreyBorealis (@borealis_corey) April 6, 2025
No way. Biological Women should not be forced to compete against biological men whether straight or trans women. There needs to be a trans women league for them, and a trans men league.
— Charlene (@LolaCharlene209) April 8, 2025
Then let LeBron play in the WNBA or let Connor McGreggor fight female fighters in the UFC. It’s Absurd.
— East TX Husker Fan (@EastKrav) April 6, 2025
As usual, @markcuban is wrong.
— Debbie (@dlemoody) April 7, 2025
