{"id":2646513,"date":"2026-08-18T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnba-forced-to-issue-another-humiliating-response-after-mom-daughter-made-to-cover-pro-girl-shirts-opposing-trans-players-in-womens-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:45:49","slug":"wnba-forced-to-issue-another-humiliating-response-after-mom-daughter-made-to-cover-pro-girl-shirts-opposing-trans-players-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnba-forced-to-issue-another-humiliating-response-after-mom-daughter-made-to-cover-pro-girl-shirts-opposing-trans-players-in-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Forced to Issue Another Humiliating Response After Mom, Daughter Made to Cover Pro-Girl Shirts Opposing Trans Players in Women&#8217;s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwnba-forced-to-issue-another-humiliating-response-after-mom-daughter-made-to-cover-pro-girl-shirts-opposing-trans-players-in-womens-sports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2646513&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A recent controversy involving the WNBA centered on security actions at an Atlanta game, where fans wearing shirts supporting traditional biological gender distinctions-such as &#8220;XX&#8221; and &#8220;XY&#8221;-were asked to cover up or leave, sparking criticism. The league issued a statement acknowledging the mishandling of the situation. The incident gained further attention after a supporter of women&#8217;s sports and biological sex distinctions was ejected for wearing shirts emphasizing that women and men are different biologically. The league&#8217;s response was seen as overreach, especially amid broader debates over trans rights and gender influence in sports. Critics argue that the league\u2019s leftist political stance conflicts with its mission to promote women\u2019s sports and that its policies have led to multiple public embarrassments, including attacks on players and supporters with traditional views on gender. The controversy highlights ongoing tensions between cultural and ideological conflicts within sports organizations committed to women&#8217;s athletics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another day, another PR disaster for the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with a storm of criticism over a mother-daughter duo who were forced to cover up shirts supporting keeping women\u2019s sports reserved for women, the league that can\u2019t shoot straight was forced to issue a blunt statement admitting the situation was badly handled.<\/p>\n<p>It had to be humiliating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WNBA is aware of interactions at (Sunday) night\u2019s game in Atlanta in which fans were asked by league security to cover their shirts,\u201d the statement said, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/sports\/wnba-says-fans\/FA6INHIEYA3PZN5PNDMIADMQRQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cThis should not have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">JUST IN: The WNBA is entering PANIC MODE after admitting to a mom and daughter being threatened with ejection from their $1K seats because they wore shirts that said \u201cXX\u201d and \u201cXY\u201d \u2014 Women and men, BASIC BIOLOGY<\/p>\n<p>Security said: COVER IT UP, or you\u2019re out<\/p>\n<p>WNBA: \u201cThis should\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DBXqB3r32K\">pic.twitter.com\/DBXqB3r32K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/2089685522700435578?\">August 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The game in question, as the outlet reported, involved the Indiana Fever playing the Atlanta Dream in Atlanta\u2019s State Farm Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press being the bastion of liberal bias it has become in the 21st century, it framed the question to include another fan who wore a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >shirt proclaiming \u201cprotect trans rights<\/a>,\u201d who was also asked to cover up her garment.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet did not mention that the fan had been featured on the State Farm Arena\u2019s Jumbotron earlier in the game \u2014 about as clear an indication of approval as a sports venue can offer.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press also doesn\u2019t mention that it was likely the trans rights advocate who complained about mother and daughter Kasey and Annie Thomason and their \u201cXX-XY Athletics\u201d and \u201cFor the Girls\u201d shirts.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews after the game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-mom-daughter-threatened-ejection-pro-girl-shirts-despite-paying-2k-tickets-just-support-sophie-cunningham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Thomasons said<\/a> they attended to show their support for Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham, who has become a flashpoint in the culture wars for her public insistence that women\u2019s sports should be exclusively for women \u2014 not permitting competition from men who claim \u201ctransgender\u201d status because they dress in skirts.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a radical position by any means \u2014 roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/states\/center-square\/nearly-80-percent-americans-dont-want-men-playing-womens-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80 percent<\/a> of the American public agrees \u2014 but it\u2019s apparently too toxic for the WNBA\u2019s powers-that-be.<\/p>\n<p>(One of those powers, Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton, had to be <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/states\/center-square\/nearly-80-percent-americans-dont-want-men-playing-womens-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fined and suspended<\/a> by the league for verbally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wnba-owner-curses-teenage-sophie-cunningham-supporters-bringing-tears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacking two teenage girls<\/a> who supported Cunningham at a game in Seattle in July.)<\/p>\n<p>The league is in the position of its leftist sympathies conflicting directly with its business model.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cW\u201d in WNBA, after all, stands for \u201cWomen\u2019s.\u201d That should be a clue right there about the sex of its players.<\/p>\n<p>The league\u2019s collective bargaining agreement declares definitively that\u00a0 \u201cOnly players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.\u201d Again, that doesn\u2019t leave much room for argument in the minds of sane people.<\/p>\n<p>(While the league \u2014 like leftist Supreme Court Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-scotus-nominee-says-cant-define-word-woman-not-biologist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ketanji Brown Jackson<\/a> \u2014 is apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wnba-announces-disgraceful-results-emergency-league-meeting-allowing-men-compete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unable<\/a> to define \u201cwoman,\u201d former NBA players Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wnba-embarrasses-absurd-embrace-everything-isnt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put it on notice<\/a> that it\u2019s going to have to come up with something soon.)<\/p>\n<p>Its players \u2014 as far as is publicly known \u2014 are all women in the only sense that\u2019s real. They were born as infant girls, from girlhood they became young women, and as young women they got into basketball and proved themselves good enough to play in a professional league dedicated to women.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s as women playing basketball that the WNBA exists as an alternative to the mighty NBA.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not some second-tier version of the men\u2019s league designed to provide paychecks for second-raters who magically identify as a gender they were never born into. It\u2019s the country\u2019s premier spot for its best women athletes \u2014 and thanks to the star power of generational talent Caitlin Clark, Cunningham\u2019s teammate, it\u2019s actually carving out a niche in the American sports world.<\/p>\n<p>But the league\u2019s leftist politics can\u2019t simply let that happen.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s allowed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ex-nfl-quarterback-boomer-esiason-says-everyones-thinking-caitlin-clark-abuse-racial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shocking amount of abuse<\/a> to be heaped on Clark by envy-ridden and possibly racist opponents. It\u2019s allowed itself to be pulled into the mire of controversy over Cunningham\u2019s pro-women\u2019s sports comments when she was simply stating a self-evident truth obvious to anyone honest enough to speak it.<\/p>\n<p>And now it\u2019s dealing with another national humiliation after apparently overzealous league security forced women\u2019s sports supporters to silence themselves as the price for staying at a WNBA game.<\/p>\n<p>And like most disasters when it comes to leftists, they brought it on themselves.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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