Charles Barkley bluntly responded to the “stupid” supporters of transgender athletes because the NBA legend voiced his issues on the controversial debate, saying he gained’t change his thoughts.
“I’m gonna make this very simple for you, Dan. Men should not play sports against women,” Barkley mentioned on Outkick’s “Don’t @ Me” with Dan Dakich Thursday. “I’m not gonna get into all the bulls–t that’s going on out here in the world today.”
The 62-year-old Corridor of Famer’s views come because the sports activities world continues to debate the polarizing topic.
“Men should not play sports against women. If anybody thinks that, I think they’re stupid,” Barkley continued. “I support the gay community 100%. I support the transgender community 100%. But I do not, under any circumstances… think that men should play sports against women.”
President Donald Trump signed an government order in February banning organic males from girls’s sports activities, placing strain on faculties to conform or face the lack of federal funds.
A day later, the NCAA modified its gender eligibility insurance policies banning all organic males from girls’s sports activities
Barkley mentioned his stance wouldn’t change whatever the strain he confronted from the general public.
“If anybody has a problem with that, they’re gonna have to get over it because I’m not gonna change my [mind]. I just think it’s wrong, period,” he added.
“I don’t even think that’s controversial… I don’t wanna hear you try to explain it to me. No, no, no, I don’t wanna hear it. I’m not gonna argue with you. Men shouldn’t play sports against woman. I’m done,” he mentioned.
Barkley’s feedback got here after Dakich requested the analyst about unfounded studies that sports activities model large Nike had funded a examine on transgender kids in sports activities.
The rumored analysis alleged the athletic put on large donated cash to assist transgender physicist Joanna Harper examine the results of hormone remedy and puberty blockers on “trans adolescents.”
Studies of the examine first emerged in a New York Occasions article highlighting San Jose State’s Blaire Fleming, a trans feminine competing on the ladies’s volleyball group.
The story briefly talked about Harper’s work and acknowledged the analysis was being funded by Nike.
Barkley mentioned he was unaware of the studies however doubled down, saying kids are too younger to be uncovered to the life-altering medicine.
“I don’t even think anybody knows who they are as a young kid. So I think we have to be very careful because you don’t want to put kids in a disadvantageous situation, because, hey, when you get older, you can make your own decision,” he mentioned. “I think we have to be very careful screwing around with kids because they’re not fully developed as a person.”
The 11-time All-Star additionally brushed previous the notion of a pattern in transgender youth as a result of dad and mom don’t take heed to “half the s–t our kids say.”
