Save Girls Sports T-shirts Called ‘Transphobic’ by Culture Critic SF Chronicle: ‘Another MAGA Hat?’

T-shirts championing girls’ sports were slammed in the San Francisco Chronicle as “transphobic” contenders for the next “MAGA hat.”

SF Chronicle columnist and cultural critic Soleil Ho wrote an article bemoaning the rise of what she calls “anti-trans activewear.” The article, headlined, “Is this the next MAGA hat? Transphobic clothing is the new hotness,” cites T-shirts that read “Save Girls’ Sports” and “It’s Common Sense. XX ≠ XY.”

Two female athletes at a Riverside, Calif., high school say they are wearing the shirts after a transgender athlete, who did not consistently attend practices or meet key varsity eligibility requirements, was placed on the varsity team, displacing one of those from her country. School athletic department officials allegedly forced students to remove or hide the shirts, claiming they created a “hostile” environment and likening wearing the shirts to wearing a swastika in front of Jewish students.

The girls sued their school district alleging interference with their First Amendment rights and Title IX violations.

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Ho, formerly a producer of the Sandwich Racist podcast, argued that the controversy is a “sad and empty spectacle that demeans us all,” claiming that science says sex and gender are a spectrum.

“On a basic level, not all cis women even have XX chromosomes, so these shirts make no sense. What are we arguing about?” wrote the SF Chronicle opinion columnist. “In addition to terrorizing Riverside’s trans community, one obvious result this dust-up seems to have is a huge amount of T-shirt sales.”

“All of this made me wonder – who and what benefits from generating more interest in this decidedly non-fabulous anti-trans-couture fashion?” she asked.

Ho then called out former Levi’s executive XX-XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey, among others, who said she “has been quite vocal about the Riverside issue — and she happens to own a company whose sole purpose is to which is to issue active anti-trans clothing”. and fund right-wing influencers”.

The columnist also argued that one should not interpret the popularity of shirts with similar messages appearing online as a “meaningful source of transphobia,” but rather, “they are likely to be sold with the same level of political conviction as the shirts, in the same storefronts on the Internet, proclaiming: “Who needs luck when they drink beer?” or ‘I’m stupid.’

A giant Trans flag was unfurled outside the Supreme Court. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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“Between dropshippers, sellers looking to use real human pain and humiliation as a branding opportunity, and anti-trans influencers whose hatred of trans people seems to make up their entire persona, I don’t know what’s more sad,” Ho complained.

The opinion piece was met with swift ridicule online, particularly from Sey himself.

“This article wins for dumbest thing I’ve read this year so far,” she wrote on X. “I’m fine with the title though. Yes truth is the new ‘hotness’.”

Sey went on to quote from the article, “Studies of human genetics show that sex, like gender, is a spectrum, and the cases of female athletes like Algerian boxer Imane Khelif show that there are many, many ways a woman can look.”

“No — studies don’t show that sex is a spectrum,” Sey responded. “How do people get away with writing such blatant lies in an actual newspaper? Yes, there are many ways a woman can ‘look’. That’s not what’s at play here, in fact, we’d love it if this ‘ movement’ would stop telling more masculine girls that they are probably boys.

Fox News’ Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.

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