Blue State Blues: Fans Wearing XX-XY Athletics Gear Booted From Soccer Game, Sports Bar
8th September 2026
A Portland professional soccer team and a prominent women’s sports bar removed fans wearing apparel from XX-XY Athletics, a company that opposes allowing men who claim to identify as women to compete in women’s sports.
A group of eight fans attended the women’s soccer match between the Portland Thorns and the Washington Spirit at the stadium Providence Park Sunday, but security escorted them from the venue. Later, the Sports Bra, a women’s sports bar, expelled the same fans over the XX-XY Athletics t-shirts.
XX-XY Athletics, a sports brand aiming to compete with Nike, notes biological differences between the sexes that give men advantages in many sports. The t-shirts emphasize “XX” and “XY,” the chromosomal markers of men and women, to focus on sex rather than gender identity.
“I would love to hear, why are we being ejected today?” Amy Sousa, one of the women wearing an XX-XY branded shirt, asks in a video published by Fox News.
“I was made aware that some transphobic…” a security guard responds, while women object and cut him off.
The guard states that “somebody was giving out information,” and the women object to that claim, saying they did not distribute materials.
Reality is ‘transphobic’, apparently.