A mom and daughter mentioned they had been compelled to cowl their XX/XY shirts or depart an Atlanta Dream sport after paying $1,000 every for flooring seats.
“We had been made to cowl up our XX/XY shirts at this sport,” mother Casey mentioned after attending along with her daughter Annie to assist Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham.
“They gave us t-shirts throughout time beyond regulation and advised us we needed to depart or cowl our shirts. This simply occurred,” she added.
The pair claimed one other fan carrying a “Trans Children Belong in Sports activities” shirt reported them. Casey insisted that they had triggered no disruption.
“We did nothing. We had been simply sitting there. I didn’t make indicators. I needed to make indicators, however I didn’t,” she mentioned, explaining they got here “to assist Sophie Cunningham and to assist girls and girls’s sports activities, it’s simply widespread sense.”
XX/XY founder Jennifer Sey mentioned she had “watched the sport from residence” and famous that the “girl along with her ‘Trans Children Belong in Sports activities’ shirt was proven a number of occasions and her shirt was very seen.”
“Why can she put on the shirt however Kasey can’t put on her XX/XY shirt?” Sey requested.
Casey and Annie finally coated their shirts to stay for the remainder of the sport. XX/XY later accused the WNBA of “making an attempt to cowl up the reality” and described the incident as “enterprise as standard.”
The episode comes amid an ongoing debate over males’s participation in girls’s basketball, with Cunningham publicly opposing males competing in girls’s sports activities.
Mother, daughter compelled to cowl up XX/XY shirts supporting girls and ladies’ proper to truthful play at WNBA sporthttps://t.co/IJBO3WwoxT
— The Publish Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 18, 2026
