The National Women Soccer League (NWSL) The expansion team based in Boston announced on Friday that it will change its name. The change comes to a marketing campaign after a wave of transgender return that left it in October.
The team would be called Bos Nation FC, which announced it in a brand event in the fall, in addition to a marketing campaign with the slogan “Too many balls”. The slogan has asked intense of the transgender community, including an NWSL player.
A transgender player who goes the unique name Quinn, who plays for the Seattle Reign, expressed himself against the team announcement of the team in a post on Instagram.
“Feels transphobic. Yikes,” Quinn wrote.
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Mayor Michelle Wu van Boston speaks during a kick -off celebration for the Boston franchise of NWSL in Dick’s House of Sport. (Barry Chin/The Boston Globe Via Getty Images)
The team quickly left the slogan, gave a public apology for it and even thanked those who statements against it.
“We fully recognize that the content of the campaign does not reflect the safe and hospitable environment that we strive to create for everyone, and apologize to the LGBTQ+ community and in particular the trans -community for the pain we have caused,” said the explanation.
“Thank you to everyone who held us responsible by calling us to do it better. We hear you and we will together,” said another explanation.
The transgenderism in the sport shifted the 2024 elections and a national counterculture was aware
Earlier this month, the club rented the new Chief Revenue Officer Amina Bulman, the former main brand and strategy officer for the Washington Commanders of the NFL, since September 2020, when the team was in the transition from the previous “Redskins” branding,
Now the women’s football team, based in Boston, knew all the traces of the branding that came from the announcement of October by choosing to change its proposed name.
“The club is expanding our sincere thanks to our supporters, whose passionate votes we appreciate deeply – not only for their non -repellent support, but also for their honest and critical feedback,” the majority owner Jennifer Epstein said in a statement.
“We could not have completed this process without your input. We strive to build a permanent legacy so that all our fans are welcome, connected and proud to carry our colors and cheer our name for the coming generations.”
The issue of trans -inclusion in women’s sports turned out to be one of the most controversial political topics of last fall and early 2025, because several lawsuits and federal investigations have been prompted by situations with trans -atettes in the past six months alone.
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Data suggests that the majority of Americans resist trans -inclusion in women’s sports, and the problem even played the 2024 election results.
A New York Times/Ipsos Survey Found that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, do not believe that transgender patients should be allowed to compete in women’s sports, because 79% of the participants said that biological men who identify themselves as women are not allowed to be allowed in women’s sports. Of the participants who identified as Democrats, 67% said that transgender athletes cannot compete with women.
A National Exit survey Led by the Women for America’s legislative Action Committee discovered that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men saw those girls and women’s sports playing and of transgender boys and men who use girls and women’s bathrooms” as important to them.
Moreover, 6% said that this was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was ‘very important’.
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