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Women's soccer team to change name after transgender backlash to marketing campaign
Fox News ^ | 3/14/25 | Jackson Thompson

Posted on 03/14/2025 8:24:21 PM PDT by Libloather

The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) Boston-based expansion team announced Friday that it will be changing its name. The change comes after a wave of transgender backlash to a marketing campaign it abandoned back in October.

The team was set to be named BOS Nation FC, which it announced in a branding event in the fall alongside a marketing campaign that featured the slogan "Too Many Balls." The slogan prompted intense backlash from the transgender community, including an NWSL player.

A transgender player who goes by the singular name Quinn, who plays for the Seattle Reign, spoke out against the team's branding announcement in a post on Instagram.

"Feels transphobic. Yikes," Quinn wrote.

The team quickly abandoned the slogan, issued a public apology for it, and even thanked those who spoke out against it.

"We fully acknowledge that the content of the campaign did not reflect the safe and welcoming environment we strive to create for all, and we apologize to the LGBTQ+ community and to the trans community in particular for the hurt we caused," the statement said.

"Thank you to all who have held us accountable by calling for us to do better. We hear you and we will, together," said another statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: backlash; culturerot; lgbt; lgbtq; marketing; soccer; transgender
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I gotta explain this crap to my grandkids.
1 posted on 03/14/2025 8:24:21 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

It’s women’s soccer, if you see a ball KICK it.


2 posted on 03/14/2025 8:32:30 PM PDT by heylady
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To: Libloather
Liberals are drawn to soccer precisely because it is one of the few remaining venues where American exceptionalism does not prevail. The World Cup, rather, is a working model of President Obama’s foreign policy vision: a world in which America has no special role, where inferior countries are no longer humbled by American greatness, where every country is exceptional, and free shots on goal are not earned, but given away as a handout to those who have mastered the art of falling down. In the group stage, at least, the games can end in a tie.


3 posted on 03/14/2025 8:34:07 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: DoodleBob
LOL!

The NCAA is warning coaches to stop having players fake injuries

NFL fires warning shot to teams that players can be suspended for faking injuries and draft picks can be taken

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4 posted on 03/14/2025 8:44:51 PM PDT by TexasGator (1'1'./iI11 .I1.11.'1I1.I'')
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To: Libloather

Do some people search for things to be outraged about?


5 posted on 03/14/2025 9:08:20 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Libloather

So a slogan which is a nod to soccer balls, somehow is deemed offensive to a transsexual player, and it’s because someone is hinting at a vulgar reference to male body parts?

And this transsexual player who claims to be female is in possession of said body parts? Is that what the outrage is about?

Sometimes I have trouble understanding exactly what it is I’m supposed to be outraged about.


6 posted on 03/14/2025 9:12:38 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Libloather

That DEI mentality is baked deep into the American social culture - for certain groups and individuals.
It’s going to take a long time and a lot of challenging to remove the hold this mindset has over many, many organizations.

If the Trans are so concerned about a Women’s soccer team’s name, why don’t those particular Trans get together and form their own team, and stop trying to morph, mangle or mutate what’s meant to be a fun passtime?
Next, they will demand that Women’s team create a position for a Trans representative, or Trans Minder.


7 posted on 03/14/2025 9:16:04 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: heylady

Exactly.


8 posted on 03/14/2025 9:41:50 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yes.


9 posted on 03/14/2025 9:42:06 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

The rest of sane humanity needs to stand up to these bullies and STOP caving to this crap and their infantile demands.

I realize this is MA< however, so sanity is not likely to prevail.


10 posted on 03/14/2025 9:43:32 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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Since when does mentally unstable perverts run the show. Who watches that sport anyway. What a waste of time.


11 posted on 03/14/2025 10:14:19 PM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They lie awake all night steaming about the fact that somewhere someone is normal, moral, and decent and might be having fun


12 posted on 03/14/2025 10:48:31 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Libloather

If the soccer team had any guts, they would tell the 2 or 3 trannies who complained “OVER-RULED! NOW sit down and shut up and stop trying to ruin things for everyone else!”


13 posted on 03/14/2025 10:50:41 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: spincaster

The inmates took over the asylum a long time ago- the good folks are trying to,claw back control, but are meeting with some well organized demon driven sreamin-memies who apparently scare the crap out of liberal folks of authority


14 posted on 03/14/2025 10:52:35 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: lee martell

If they are so discombobulated over a name, then their mental health is much much worse thst folks realize, and infzct may be dangerous if it causes them such rage. Trannies are already overly emotional wrecks- and they just keep feeding their unstableness over and over, and as we have seen, many turn to violence becauss they can’t control their emotions- several trannies have committed school shootings, several engage in violent protests, and it seems lots support terrorists (the queers for hamas, queers for palestine etc)

Society really is dealing with potential dangerous emotional wrecks who wake each day looking to,Fred their inner hatred and biases


15 posted on 03/14/2025 10:58:33 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Libloather

All this for one man who likes to pretend he is a woman? Kick Quinn right in the balls.


16 posted on 03/14/2025 11:01:15 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Libloather
Women's soccer team to change name slogan after transgender backlash to marketing campaign

There, fixed it!

Regards,

17 posted on 03/14/2025 11:55:01 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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"Feels transphobic. Yikes," Quinn wrote. The team quickly abandoned the slogan, issued a public apology for it, and even thanked those who spoke out against it.

Note that it suffices to remark off-handedly that it FEELS offensive!

Not "is explicitly and demonstrably" - rather, just "feels."

And then the immediate falling-over-oneself to apologize... Sickening!

Regards,

18 posted on 03/14/2025 11:58:07 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Libloather

So someone apparently looked at the WNBA and said, “You know what would be great?…A women’s professional soccer league (populated by lesbians, of course). And while we’re at it, let’s throw in a few trannies just for kicks.” Yeah, that’s gonna take right off.


19 posted on 03/15/2025 12:55:57 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Organic Panic

This could be a byproduct of the VAXX.

There are common drugs administered for diseases that have a side effect of

DMC.

Diminished Mental Capacity. Weakened minds are more easily brainwashed.

They are lying/lied to us by omission on the VAXX. Just like they lied about

Kennedy, stonewalled UFOs, Epstein’s death, customer list, Fauci and other shit

because we “can’t handle the truth.” or somebody’s ass needs to be protected.

BTW, get the FFFF out of China. All their junk is contaminated. Death by a billion

cuts.


20 posted on 03/15/2025 1:23:08 AM PDT by Surrounded_too (LE)
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