SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The women’s basketball team at Mission College expected the bleachers to be full and the hecklers ready when its newest player made her home court debut.
In the days leading up to the game, people had plenty to say about 6-foot-6-inch, 220-pound Gabrielle Ludwig, who joined the Lady Saints as a mid-season walk-on and became, according to advocates, the first transsexual to play college hoops as both a man and a woman.
Coach Corey Cafferata worried the outside noise was getting to his players, particularly the 50-year-old Ludwig.
A pair of ESPN radio hosts had laughed at her looks, referring to her as “it.” And online threats and anonymous calls prompted the two-year college to assign the Navy veteran of Operation Desert Storm a safer parking space next to the gym and two police guards.
Last week, Ludwig gathered her 10 teammates at practice and offered to quit. This was their time to shine, she told the group of 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds. She didn’t want to be a distraction for the team. The other women said if Ludwig, whom they nicknamed “Big Sexy” and “Princess,” didn’t play, they wouldn’t either.
Read more at The Chicago Sun-Times.
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If the other team members feel that way, they should not play. The transgender has many male advantageous over the other teams women players, this country is over the edge allowing insanity to prevail.
What? Transgender is a slap in the face of God! They should not play. Say what you will, this country is on the edge of insanity..if not already over the cliff with all of the corruption and sins…and Armageddon is looming on the horizon. This country needs to turn back to God…or be destroyed.
If this is good with the NCCA then so should steroids and other performance enhancers be OK.
Do I care? No I do not – just another day with another thing that is wrong with society and their interpretation of what is right and wrong.
Well, now ya know…there is hope for aged athletes to continue on…com’on to Ca. where the government pays for your sex change and change your luck….entitlement thinking with a twist.
“In a world gone mad.”
Whats next? When men can’t win medal in the Olympics, they’ll dress like a queen and claim they have a right to compete against the woman Olympians to better their chances to win medal when they can’t win competing against their own gender. Not a day goes by anymore that we don’t hear or read about gays and drag queens infiltrating some other aspect of society.
I suspect next we will be hearing from all the pedophiles and beastiality sickos screaming they too have rights to our children and their sexuality choices with animals.