University of South Carolina coach Dawn Staley completed a magical championship season. Her team went undefeated, and she won her second college basketball championship in three years and third since 2017. She is unquestionably one of the sport’s greatest coaches of all time. 

However, she won those titles coaching a women’s team against other women in women’s basketball. She would not have won any of those titles if she coached against a team of men, particularly against a team of men claiming to be women. Despite this, Staley made an inexplicable comment over the weekend before her team’s championship game against the University of Iowa.

“I’m on the opinion of if you’re a woman, you should play,” Staley said at a press conference before Sunday’s game. “If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports, or vice versa, you should be able to play. That’s my opinion.”

This is nothing but sheer lunacy. And I also don’t believe that Staley believes this. She is a longtime coach of women’s basketball, a former Olympic gold medalist basketball player, a former star basketball player, and in the Hall of Fame. She would have accomplished none of this if she had to regularly compete against men who claimed they were women. 

It may be her opinion, and she is entitled to it. However, it is my opinion that she is drastically wrong. Her comments were indicative of the toxic indoctrination plaguing the country right now regarding transgender people, particularly men claiming to be women to participate in female sports. Truth, facts, science, and common sense don’t seem to resonate with Staley and other people like her who support men claiming they are women and competing in female sports. 

It seems the only way supporters of such radical policies learn just how awful the policies they support are is when they drastically backfire when applied in real-world situations. For example, Democrats and other left-wingers claimed for years that decriminalizing drugs would be beneficial for society. Yet, when Oregon did that, conditions deteriorated so quickly that the state had to reverse course only a few short years after implementing its left-wing policy.

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So, since common sense isn’t working, perhaps it is time for men to start playing women’s basketball. Let a 7-foot-tall behemoth, like Purdue University star Zach Edey, weighing over 300 pounds, change his name and start playing on a women’s basketball team. Let other men of superior height, speed, strength, and other areas of athletic ability compared to women follow suit, change his name from Steve to Eve, and start dominating women’s basketball. Perhaps then Staley and anyone who supported her comments would realize the errors in their ways.

Or, we can avoid all that and realize that men should not compete against women in sports. There’s a reason why a woman’s basketball is smaller than a men’s basketball. There’s a reason why there were two separate leagues to begin with. Men are not women, no matter how hard radicalized left-wing political ideologues want to claim they are. The sooner we acknowledge this, the better we all will be.