On Tuesday night, the Seattle Storm posted photos to Instagram showing Dolson wearing a “TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.”

Go anti-woke, go broke. A planned anti-trans rally outside of a WNBA game in Seattle, of all places, appears to have been a major flop.

The “rally” took place outside the Climate Pledge Arena ahead of the Seattle Storm v. Indiana Fever game. Even calling it a rally is generous though — per a video posted to Instagram by local news outlet The Burner, attendance was sparse. According to ESPN, the crowd consisted of “a few dozen,” who were there to both voice support for Fever guard Sophie Cunningham and for legislation that would bar trans girls from participating in school sports in Washington state.

  • 1egg4u@lemmy.world
    18·
    11 days ago

    They will virtually always be outnumbered by counterprotesters when those counterprotesters actually choose to show up but therein lies the problem

    A lot of people dont realize how bad things are getting and they dont realize that the lack of push back has emboldened chuds. If we dont show up and outnumber them every time their message goes on to be platformed as if it’s a common consensus.

    If we cant get allies on board to bolster our numbers and stand up for us things will get much worse before they get better (if they ever get better)

    • CombatWombat@feddit.onlineEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      For me, the average women’s sports game in Seattle is close enough to a pro-trans rights rally that I would count roughly the number of attendees as the size of the counterprotest. I don’t think I’ve been to a Storm, Reign or Torrent game where I haven’t seen a dozen “Protect Trans Kids” shirts.