Transgender backlash prompts pro women's soccer team to apologize for 'too many balls' branding announcement

A gag had to beryllium thrown retired astatine the offices of the caller BOS Nation FC women's soccer club. 

As an enlargement squad with the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) based successful Boston, Nation FC is looking to carve retired its individuality and its assemblage successful 1 of America's proudest sports towns. Its effort to bash this began with a branding announcement video successful which a narrator uttered the slogans "Boston loves its balls" and "there are excessively galore balls successful this town." At the extremity of the video, the narrator said, "We are BOS Nation, wherever thing is possible. No balls necessary."

The squad adjacent launched an authoritative website with a URL of "toomanyballs.com." That website is present offline. 

The enactment issued an apology for the connection Wednesday addressed to the LGBT community, much specifically to the transgender community. 

"We afloat admit that the contented of the run did not bespeak the harmless and welcoming situation we strive to make for all, and we apologize to the LGBTQ+ assemblage and to the trans assemblage successful peculiar for the wounded we caused," the connection said. 

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Fans during a kickoff solemnisation for the NWSL's Boston franchise astatine Dick's House of Sport successful Boston Oct. 15. (Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

There were respective instances of transgender advocates speaking retired against the enactment connected societal media aft the announcement, including a transgender NWSL player. 

A transgender subordinate who goes by the singular sanction Quinn, who plays for the Seattle Reign, spoke retired against the team's branding announcement successful a station connected Instagram. 

"Feels transphobic. Yikes," Quinn wrote. 

The squad released different connection connected societal media successful which it thanked those who spoke retired against it. 

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"We are arrogant to beryllium portion of the astir inclusive sports league successful the satellite and are committed to upholding the unifying values that specify the NWSL and our club," the squad posted connected X. "Thank you to each who person held america accountable by calling for america to bash better. We perceive you and we will, together."

The enactment did not code the heterosexual assemblage successful its apology, nor did it code men. 

BOS Nation FC had not responded to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital earlier the clip of publication. 

The timing of the "too galore balls" branding and the team's apology to the trans colonisation coincided with a contentious play regarding transgender inclusion successful women's sports.

OL Reign guardant Megan Rapinoe earlier a crippled against the Kansas City Current astatine Lumen Field. (Michael Thomas Shroyer/USA Today Sports)

Former President Trump addressed the issue of transgender inclusion successful women's sports during a Fox News municipality hallway with Harris Faulkner Wednesday. Trump advocated for a afloat prohibition of each biologic men successful women's and girls sports during the event. 

"You conscionable prohibition it. The president bans it. You conscionable don't fto it happen," Trump said, arsenic the assemblage cheered. "Not a large deal."

Some states person already passed their ain laws to combat transgender contention against women. In Idaho, Gov. Brad Little issued an enforcement bid to transportation retired the Defending Women's Sports Act successful August.

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A full of 23 states person astatine slightest 1 instrumentality successful spot aimed astatine restricting oregon preventing transgender inclusion successful women's sports. 

In Texas, which has a pivotal Senate race, the taxable weighed truthful heavy that 1 campaigner backpedaled connected his stance. Democrat Colin Allred has said successful advertisements and during a statement against hostile Ted Cruz this week that helium doesn't advocator for "boys successful girls sports." 

Allred is 1 of galore Democratic members of Congress to person signed the Equality Act, which would "force nationalist schools to let biologically antheral athletes who place arsenic transgender connected girls sports teams."

People question a transgender pridefulness emblem arsenic they be the 2023 LA Pride Parade June 11, 2023, successful Hollywood, Calif. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

In April, the Biden-Harris medication issued a sweeping regularisation that clarified that Title IX’s prohibition connected "sex" favoritism successful schools covers favoritism based connected sex identity, intersexual predisposition and "pregnancy oregon related conditions." 

The rule took effect Aug. 1, and, for the archetypal time, the instrumentality stated that favoritism based connected enactment includes behaviour related to a person’s gender identity. The Biden medication insisted that the regularisation does not code diversion eligibility. However, aggregate experts presented evidence to Fox News Digital successful June that Biden's claims that it would not effect successful biologic men participating successful women's sports were not existent and that the connection would yet enactment much biologic men successful women's sports.

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to cull the Biden administration's exigency petition to enforce portions of that caller regularisation that includes extortion from favoritism for transgender students nether Title IX, aft much than 2 twelve Republican attorneys wide sued to artifact the Title IX changes successful their ain states.

Now, arsenic BOS Nation FC looks to pull fans arsenic an enlargement squad successful women's soccer, it doesn't privation to beryllium caught successful the crosshairs. 

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