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Brandi Kruse kicked out of soccer match over T-shirt
Independent journalist Brandi Kruse joins Laura Ingraham to discuss her controversial ejection from a National Women’s Soccer League match in Portland, Oregon. Kruse described being escorted out by stadium security simply for wearing a T-shirt supporting female athletics.
There is nothing the kind and tolerant left loves more than being unkind and intolerant towards people who have a different political perspective. Especially when the political perspective involves acknowledging the biological reality of physical advantages that males have over females in sports.
This consistent intolerance and hatred was on full display recently at a women’s soccer game in Portland. A group of about 20 women wearing XX-XY shirts at a Portland Thorns game at Providence Park were allegedly harassed by a number of anti-Reality fans in the area, including verbal and physical aggression. The “friendly and tolerant” left, as always.
You would assume that, in a sane world, those who have engaged in unacceptable abuse towards fans for wearing “Save Women’s Sports” shirts would be removed from the stadium and permanently banned for misconduct. But a women’s soccer organization in Portland, Oregon, is presumably about as far from sanity as it gets. Instead, the women who stood up for science and competitive fairness were forcibly removed, while the Thorns’ official X account celebrated their amazing fans in a post after the match.
PORTLAND THORNS ARE DESTROYED IN THE COMMENT SECTION FOR LIVE FANS IN THE SAME AFTER XX-XY GROUP ATTACK
Save Women’s Sports activists are surrounded by an agitated group of trans supporters after they unfurled a large “Save Women’s Sports” banner and revealed XX-XY shirts at a Portland Thorns match on Friday, October 23, 2026. (Out Kick)
The least surprising result imaginable, even if it is absurd and offensive.
One of the women involved, Brandi Kruse, joined Laura Ingraham on Fox News to tell her side of the story. Kruse explained that she never received an explanation from security or from the organization why she and the group were forced to leave. Typical.
Ingrahm asked if stadium officials or security told her why she was removed, to which she replied: “No one. It’s been three days… You can hear me in the video asking that security tell me when they say” You have to leave, “and I say, “We didn’t do anything wrong. And she says, ‘You know what you did?’ And I said, ‘I have no idea what I’ve done.’
Kruse continued, detailing that she would not leave quietly, “And that’s when I just made the decision, look, if they ask me to leave, I will make that decision to them and they will have to put their hands on me and pull me out of this stadium, because I will not leave of my own free will. But we have not received an explanation so far.
Save Women’s Sports activists are surrounded by an agitated group of trans supporters after they unfurled a large “Save Women’s Sports” banner and revealed XX-XY shirts at a Portland Thorns match on Friday, October 23, 2026. (Out Kick)
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Ingraham brought up that the Thorns’ statement about the incident was to say that they are “committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment for everyone,” which is obviously the opposite of how this situation was handled. The Torns also claimed that “security and enforcement decisions are managed locally,” and that they review those actions to ensure that their policies were “appropriately and consistently applied.”
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Kruse said, “It’s a tricky thing to determine the nature of the mistake because the stadium itself, Providence Park is owned by the city of Portland, but it’s operated by Peregrine Sports. And then, of course, you have the Dorns. And so we don’t know who ultimately made the call to say, ‘take away the people with the XX-XY’s that they’re all wearing with the individual shirts, and leave them with the individual flags around, they beat them all. dump beer on them.'”
Importantly, she added, it wasn’t just the participants wearing XX-XY shirts who were confronted. OutKick’s Matt Calkins, who was covering the game, was “attacked by the mob,” Kruse explained. “His press pass was ripped from his box by a security guard.”
L: Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche and (R) fans support women’s sports at a Portland Thorns game. (Getty Images and OutKick)
Ingraham then clarified how security mishandled the situation, acting as police officers despite not having the authority to do so. Kruse said the guard confirmed she was not a police officer, then added that no matter how it was handled, the treatment of the “pro-trans” crowd was unacceptable.
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“You know, all they had to do was not respond to our t-shirts, be functioning adults in the United States of America. And understand that sometimes you’re faced with ideas you don’t agree with. And the answer to that is not violence.”
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Brilliant, and very accurate. The XX-XY group had a simple banner, the kind often displayed in football stadiums across the country. They wore t-shirts that simply had scientific, biological chromosomes on them. For this very reasonable behavior, they were attacked and abused, then forcibly removed by security. Simply because the leftists who have taken over in those places do not tolerate dissent that challenges their world view. No matter how insane and deranged that worldview might be. We’ve seen it in the WNBA, we’ve seen it here…and it will continue because the people who run these organizations and institutions support it.
Good for Kruse for not letting them go, and good for the Justice Department for investigating as well.
