Ex-WNBA player Val Whiting makes clear stance on transgender athletes in women's sports

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Val Whiting, a former WNBA player who was a two-time national champion at Stanford, made her stance on transgender participation in women’s sports clear on Saturday night.

Whiting gave her take on X after South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley was asked about the issue earlier in the day as the team prepared for their national championship game against the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Val Whiting-Raymond of the Minnesota Lynx gets ready to shoot a free throw against the Mystics at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. (Doug Pensinger/Allsport)

"A lot of my basketball sisters feel differently but trans women do not belong in women’s sports," Whiting wrote. "It’s not fair nor safe for biological women. There has to be another solution for trans women to be able to compete athletically besides having them compete against biological women."

Whiting played in the American Basketball League and Women’s National Basketball League before the WNBA took off. She then played for the Detroit Shock and the Minnesota Lynx.

She played around the same time as Staley. The Basketball Hall of Famer played for the Charlotte Sting. Staley played more than seven seasons with the Sting before a short stint with the Houston Comets.

Val Whiting-Raymond of the Minnesota Lynx tries to shoot over Nicky McCrimmon of the Sparks at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (Eliot Schechter/Allsport)

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During a press conference, OutKick’s Dan Zaksheske asked Staley her thoughts on the burning issue in the U.S.

"I'm of the opinion of, if you're a woman, you