WNBA Security Forces Mother and Daughter to Cover Up XX-XY Shirts
I hope these incidents bring out more XX-XY apparel at WNBA games.
Security at a WNBA game in Atlanta, GA, told a mother and daughter to cover up their XX-XY t-shirts.
Kasey Thomason and her daughter Annie attended the Atlanta Dream game against the Indiana Fever. They wore XX-XY Athletics t-shirts to show support for Fever superstar Sophie Cunningham, who has been outspoken against males in female sports.
Jennifer Sey founded XX-XY Athletics to stand with young girls and women. The company has donated almost $100,000 to organizations that protect the safety and fairness for females.
XX-XY Athletics shirts have popped up at WNBA games ever since Cunningham expressed her support for keeping males out of female spaces and sports.
Kasey and Annie had no problems through the game until overtime, when a security guard pulled them from the seats. From Outkick:
They were unsure why they were specifically being targeted at that moment, so Kasey asked him, “[Is it] about our shirts?”
Then things took an insane turn.
The security guard told them that a fan(s) were offended by their shirts, so they had the choice to wear the provided Atlanta Dream “Wellness & Health Night” shirts, or they would be escorted out of the building. To this, Kasey responded by saying, “Biology and science is offensive?”, before reluctantly agreeing to put the shirts on so they didn’t miss the last two minutes of overtime, where the Indiana Fever eventually secured a 95-91 victory.
With about two and a half minutes left in overtime, the Thomasons are seen on the ESPN broadcast with the tan Dream shirts in hand. They can be seen talking to fans around them, who they said loved their shirts and showed support for them and Cunningham throughout the game. At about 1:30 remaining, both Kasey and Annie had put the shirts on.
BREAKING: A local Georgia mom & daughter were discriminated against at Sunday’s Fever vs Dream game for wearing @xx_xyathletics shirts
During OT, a security guard told them
they had to put provided Atlanta Dream shirts over their shirts or they would be escorted out…This is… pic.twitter.com/9VDzB31nmy
— Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) August 17, 2026
BREAKING – This mother and daughter paid $1,000 per ticket to attend today’s Indiana Fever vs. Atlanta Dream game at State Farm Arena, specifically to see Sophie Cunningham — a woman they respect and admire for taking a clear stance against biological men in women’s sports. They… pic.twitter.com/Mv6VyOigXw
— Adam Francisco (@adamfrancisco_) August 17, 2026
At today’s Atlanta Dream vs Indiana Fever game, a local mom and daughter were told they had to cover up their t-shirts from @xx_xyathletics or leave the arena.
What’s up with that @AtlantaDream? https://t.co/H1vmf08Ier pic.twitter.com/KSxA0gDFj9
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) August 17, 2026
Last month, Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton left two young fans in tears after berating them over their XX-XY T-shirts.
The two girls showed love for Cunningham and thanked her for speaking up for girls while wearing XX-XY gear from an athletic company that supports the movement to keep males out of female sports and spaces.
Another fan told security to “throw the trash out,” in reference to the two teenage girls.
Cunningham’s comments have put the WNBA at the center of the “trans” debate, especially after two former NBA players declared themselves for the WNBA draft.
The WNBA formed a task force to review their eligibility.
The task force emerged with no answer. They could not define female.
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I just ordered a new XX – XY shirt.
UPDATE: It was league security and the league just through them under the bus.
The WNBA admitted Monday that league security improperly forced a mother and her teenage daughter to cover their XX-XY Athletics shirts during Sunday’s game between the Indiana Fever and Atlanta Dream.
“The WNBA is aware of interactions at last night’s game in Atlanta in which fans were asked by league security to cover their shirts,” a WNBA spokesperson said in a statement provided to OutKick. “This should not have happened.”
– From a FoxNews story.
Reminds me of when Charlie Finley brought out “The Swingin A’s” T-shirts. THAT went well. 😉 Who could have seen it coming?
Security is interested in preventing fights, knowing the activist political views of its attending audience.
They were allowed in with shirts covered, if they wanted. So it’s not their views that keeps them out, but advertising their views in a hostile crowd.
The heckler’s veto? Nope, not a good look.
Would the last person out of a WNBA venue kindly turn out the lights?
Not so much a heckler’s veto as it is a violent heckler’s veto; Leftist loons get their way by threatening violence. That’s the way Communism works.
And thats acceptable how?
Security is responsible for protecting them. Lawsuit thing. They’re declining.
But this thought you have doesn’t line up with what happened.
“ Kasey and Annie had no problems through the game until overtime, when a security guard pulled them from the seats.”
Through the whole game they wore the shirts and then in overtime they were told it was offensive.
Nope. It is their views that keep them out. I checked with MIlhouse.
Rhhardin is obviously correct that they weren’t targeted merely for having their views; if that were the case then how would covering the shirts up have helped? They still had the same views, and yet the security guard was fine with letting them stay if only they covered their shirts. Therefore their offense was not having the views but expressing them.
Either the security guard himself found that expression offensive, or someone in authority over him did so, perhaps as high as the team management and/or owner.
At any rate, since it’s private property and the team is a private company, no laws appear to have been broken in applying this censorship. Which is a shame, but it is what it is. Property owners with wrong opinions have the right to censor the expression of contrary opinions on their property.
For the majority of the game, nobody had an issue or gave a cr@p, and they waited until the final minutes of overtime to throw a fit? I submit this is a First Amendment matter because Gateway Center Arena at College Park is located in and owned by the city of College Park, Georgia. It depends on who gave the order to cover up or remove them.
Let’s start with the guard, the venue owner/management, the home team, and the league itself. I hope there are a lot of zeroes in the lawsuit.
No one alerted the security guard until then. Once he was alerted he acted. It may have been on his own, because he was offended, or it may have been that this is the team’s policy, dictated by its management and/or its owner.
First of all, get your location right. It wasn’t at Gateway Center Arena, in College Park, it was at State Farm Arena, in Atlanta. But that’s irrelevant, since both arenas belong to government entities. State Farm belongs to Fulton County, but it’s operated by the Hawks, who have a lease that runs for another 20 years, and anyone who wants to use it has to deal with them.
The fact that a place is government property doesn’t matter when it’s being leased by a private party. If you rent an apartment or office from the government, does that make you bound by the constitution?! So long as you have your lease it’s effectively your property and you have the same rights as any property owner. The government isn’t allowed to censor opinions that it doesn’t like; a tenant is.
See GeorgiaCarry.org v. Atlanta Botanical Garden.
That case involved firearms, this case does not.
“The Georgia Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider whether OCGA 16-11-127 (c) permitted a private organization that leased property owned by a municipality to prohibit the carrying of firearms on the leased premises.”
The lease here may well have provisions that require the tenant to comply with all laws and not to discriminate. That would negate the strong defense being offered that the censor had a right to interfere with lawful conduct. Until it’s known, legal conclusions are silly.
So what? What’s the difference between the first amendment and the second? Both apply only to the government, not to private people, and this decision says that when someone rents government property the tenant is not a state actor and is therefore not bound by the constitution.
They are complying with all laws. There is no law against discrimination on the basis of political opinion. There is no law against private people censoring speech on their property.
There is no possibility whatsoever that the Hawks’ lease requires them to be bound by the first and second amendments as if they were a state actor!
The decision said it depends on what the lease says insofar as the parties’ rights in the land, “whether the specific lease in question creates an estate for years or a usufruct.” Since it’s unlikely you have read the lease in question, despite the absolute pronouncements, you cannot cite what it says and what it does or does not require.
It’s a 30-year lease! There is no way that it’s not a full lease giving the Hawks effective ownership for the duration. A lease for usufruct only is not made to last decades.
Gee Milhouse, the only State Farm Arena policy that I’ve found regarding dress states the following:
And that’s it for the dress code as far as I can tell. And those t-shirts they were wearing hardly qualify as “obscene” or “indecent”. They may express an opinion that some people don’t like but don’t see anywhere listed that “offending a person” is a prohibited activity that will get you expelled from the arena.
Source:
Guest Code of Conduct
First of all, the arena was leased to the Atlanta Dream for the game, so it may be the Dream’s policy, not the Hawks’.
Second, the Hawks are not bound by the published code of conduct. They don’t have a contract with you that says so long as you obey the published code you’re fine. They’re entitled to enforce policies that aren’t in the code. As you quoted, “Violations of the code of conduct policy include:”, which means the list is not exclusive. There may be other violations that they spring on you from time to time, and you either comply or leave.
Also, they’re the judge of what’s “offensive”, or “indecent”, or whatever. If they tell you what you’re wearing is not allowed, you comply or leave.
And it may simply be this one guard who found the shirt offensive, and acted on his own authority.
Just curious, Milhouse. Where were you on the NFL “kneelers” issue?
I was of the mind that they were employees and that the game itself (and its broadcast) belonged to the league (therefore the league had complete authority to control the content and messaging presented during the game). Between these two factors, the kneelers had no right to express themselves during the game (when the team has control over their behavior) nor to use the game itself as a platform because the platform didn’t belong to them (the kneelers).
I agreed 100%. I also thought that it was both the team’s and the league’s patriotic duty not to put up with such open defiance of the USA. They should have fired Kaepernick, and the fans should have backed them up.
A good ass beating is exactly what the alphabet mafia needs.
Ok now apply the same logic to actions or inaction by ‘security’ at other large venue/events with particular emphasis on Colin Kaepernick, BLM and any other political messaging/expression which could conceivably be viewed as equally or more divisive than the message of these t-shirts which honestly express a biological reality to support the long standing cultural reality that Men and Women have far different capital for peak athletic performance as a result of biological differences and thus are separated for competitive events/sports and intimate common areas (bathroom/locker room).
Moreover explain why ‘security’ would be directed to suppress the speech of the non violent v removing those so unable to regulate their emotions that a differing opinion leads them lash out and harm others. IOW reinforcing the heckler’s veto by using hypothetical future criminal acts by those offended by dissenting views as the basis.
A fight could be prevented by advising the “offended” trans radical activists that if they continued to throw a hissy fit, they would be ejected from the game.
Then security needs to watch for those that cause trouble and fights and deal with them instead of telling two people to cover up their t-shirts in the last two of minutes of the game. If the t-shirts hadn’t caused any problems up to that point they chances are nobody was going to cause trouble for the two and they certainly didn’t need to cover up their t-shirts.
The truth isn’t a view, it’s just the truth
What is the truth, is a view.
More like self preservation…Not enough security in the entire city to toss out all the violent triggered perverts of a WNBA game.
So the WNBA won’t even let female fans wear a shirt affirming the reality that women exist. But people with pro-trans shirts are allowed to wear theirs. Ponder that.
Oops. Hit down vote instead of reply. Sorry. I wanted to reply that we the people are tired of “pondering” the BS. We ought to organize some demonstrations of our own.
I hope these incidents bring out more XX-XY apparel at WNBA games.
Well, you’d need to get more spectators to the games, first.
And, while I don’t see this as a 1A issue, this is pretty egregious stupidity on the part of the league. Unfortunately, it’s also very on brand for a sport that thinks it is owed an audience and revenue.
Kasey responded by saying, “Biology and science is offensive?”
Well, duh!
This farce must end.
I would sue for discrimination. I’m sure there were people in there with actual pro trans , BLM crap
This has to stop
Sue on what grounds? Where did you get the idea that discrimination on the basis of political opinion, or the expression thereof, is illegal in Atlanta? As far as I can tell, Atlanta bans discrimination in public accommodations on the following grounds: race, color, creed, religion, sex, domestic relationship status, parental status, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, or the use of a service animal. I see nothing there about political opinions, or political expression.
It is not a political opinion, it’s simply the truth.
It’s an opinion. But even if you were right, what would that get you? Since when is there a law banning discrimination against people for telling the truth?
The WNBA is mostly lesbians and the lesbians, part of the LBGT++ crowd,
have made common cause with the T++ wierdos. I think that’s stupid on their part but it’s their rodeo. As long as they do so they are going to fight against anything they perceive as attacking their allies no matter how lame or counterproductive to their own position it seems.
“The security guard told them that a fan(s) were offended by their shirts”
“Well, I’m offended by her (and your) censorship of my values, and I’m holding tickets, too. So go tell her to get over herself.”
Yes, but either the guard himself, or his boss, or the team management, agrees with that fan and not with you.
Some people get off on telling truth to power. You apparently get off on toadying excuses for them.
Was the security guard doing it solo, or by direction (and by whom?)? And, as others have noted, why wait until OT?
It may not have been brought to his attention until then.
“Then things took an insane turn.” The WNBA is doing their part to bring back East Germany.
Which is funny, since now East Germany is the redpilled sector.
If it happened in OT, they should have told security to take a flying leap off the top rail.
And security could remove them. They wanted to see the end of the game, so they had no choice but to comply.
So we are telling women how to dress now? Where are the Handmaid’s Tale feminazi protesters for this one? Oh, couldn’t be bothered to show the energy…surprise, surpise.
No, they’re telling people how to dress. The exchange would surely have gone exactly the same way had these people been men.
It’s not even how to dress, it’s what opinions they may publicly express on the team’s property. I assume there would have been no problem with them wearing Che Guevara shirts, but all sorts of problems with Trump shirts.
It’s actually not the team’s property. It’s owned by the city of College Park Georgia. The team just plays there. This means it is effectively a city government that doesn’t want to tolerate the message on the shirts, This makes it a First Amendment violation.
It’s the Hawks’ property. They have a lease that runs through 2046. And presumably the Dreams had a lease from the Hawks for that evening, so they had property rights there as well.
“The exchange would surely have gone exactly the same way had these people been men.”
I suspect that claim is quite inaccurate. These attendees were bullied because they were women.
I think you missed the sarcasm.
Never before in history has any business resisted customers trying to spending money in their establishment.
Well… Lester Maddox…
Which is right on brand for these B’s.
Au contraire, there are many examples of leftist/LGTB-gestapo/TDStards pulling this.
https://www.primetimer.com/news/i-hope-he-sues-internet-outraged-as-viral-video-shows-soccer-fan-being-kicked-out-of-st-louis-stadium-over-maga-hat
https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-women-thrown-off-plane-160732354.html
https://prosoccerwire.usatoday.com/story/sports/mls/2025/09/17/real-salt-lake-apologizes-to-fan-asked-to-remove-maga-hat/86190197007/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/poetica-coffee-shop-dan-goldman-israel-b3001046.html
To list but a few examples.
1. Have you never heard of Jim Crow? Woolworth lunch counters?
2. They’d already spent their money. They weren’t going to get that back.
So the Dream Teams says things are going well and attendance is up. Well, is it up only when the Fever is in town? Like, people want to see Caitlin and Sophie? Let’s be honest – Caitlin is the best player to enter the WNBA in a long time. Sophie is definitely exposing the biases of the WNBA. IF the leaders have any sense or intelligent, they will define a woman is a female. And move on.
You would be confused too as tp what to do if you were a WNBA fiduciary. There already are “women” with Y chromosomes in the league.
“IF the leaders have any sense or intelligent, they will define a woman is a female.” Doubtful these ‘leaders’ could agree on where to meet for lunch.
or how to split the bill and how much of a tip to leave if any.
The WNBA is run by idiots from top to bottom.
idiotsideologues.I doubt anyone is on top at the WNBA. It’s all a race to the bottom,
$1000 a ticket. Nope.
Interesting to see how much some go out of their way to defend the censors, as if they approve.
Private actors have the right to censor people on their property. The same first amendment that forbids state actors from doing so, protects private actors’ right to do so.
They may have the right, but that does not make it right, hard as some try to say so.
Of course it’s not right, because the opinion the team and the league are championing is wrong. The fact is that men don’t belong in the WNBA, even if the league itself thinks they do. They ought to change their mind, so obviously they also ought not to censor those who are urging them to change their mind.
But that’s my opinion; they clearly disagree, which is their right.
The WNBA has now said the censorship itself was wrong. Which is the more important issue here, not the lessee’s right to censor, which may or may not be legal in this case, yet so aggressively defended to the point of absolutism.
The question is then, “who are the ‘private actors’ in this case?
The WNBA has released a statement saying the banning was against league policy.
The Dream issued a statement saying:
“The Atlanta Dream believes in creating a safe and inclusive environment for everyone. Unfortunately, at last night’s game, WNBA security took actions that fell short of that standard,” the Dream said in a statement. “At no point was Dream personnel involved in the decisions made by WNBA security.”
In addition, the league informed the Security Workers that they were wrong to ask the women to cover the messages up.
So there is your lawsuit. The fans went to the game expecting and adhering to one code of conduct, and the workers / company hired by and controlled by the league violated that code.
The fans and the team had a contract and the league actors violated that contract.
The game has been described as one of, if not the most exciting game of the year and fans were not allowed to enjoy it due to the conduct of league controlled employees.
“Fans were offended”? Yea right. It was probably some LWF (Karen) who spent the whole night scanning the crowd to find something that could offend them.
The WNBA issued a statement saying that the security guards were wrong.
In addition, the Dream issued a statement:
So the security people working for the WNBA (not the Dream) violated the league policy in censoring the women’s attire.
source: https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/49643708/wnba-says-fans-free-wear-shirts-transgender-athlete-messaging
$1,000 A TICKET???
Somebody’s priorities are askew.