‘Kill Herself’: Fan Told Women’s Sports Advocate Jennifer Sey to Kill Herself at WNBA Finals Over Her T-Shirt

WNBA Finals Game 1 was supposed to be about basketball. For Jennifer Sey, it became about a confrontation in the stands — and her video of it is now everywhere, from sports media to the culture-war corners of X.

Sey — founder and CEO of XX-XY Athletics and a former U.S. national gymnastics champion — attended Saturday night’s Finals opener between the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream at Chase Center in San Francisco wearing XX-XY Athletics T-shirts with friends. In the video she posted herself, a woman confronts their group: Sey says the woman told her to “kill herself,” flipped her the middle finger, and tried to swat the phone out of her hand. Sey wrote: “We were scolded for antagonizing people with our shirts. But allowed to go back to our seats.”

What Security Did

According to Sey’s account, arena security escorted her group out — then let them back in. The guard told them the shirts didn’t violate the fan code of conduct, but asked them not to point the shirts at other spectators. That’s the detail both sides are now fighting over: Sey’s supporters say being removed at all, even temporarily, proves the shirts were treated as the problem; critics say security was de-escalating a heated situation and the group got their seats back. The incident was covered by USA Today, Fox News, and OutKick, which described “hostile Valkyries fans” verbally attacking the women’s sports activists. Sey, who has built XX-XY Athletics into a prominent voice in the women’s sports debate, has faced confrontations before — but rarely on camera at a championship game.

The replies split along exactly the fault line you’d expect. Sey’s supporters call the confrontation proof of her whole point — that women’s sports spaces have become hostile to women who dissent on gender policy — and praise security for ultimately letting the group stay. Her critics argue that wearing provocative shirts to a game is itself a provocation, that “antagonizing” was security’s word for a reason, and that filming the whole thing was the point all along. A few neutral observers just want to know what the shirts actually said, and whether the woman who confronted them will face any consequences from the arena.

Viewers couldn’t agree on who the villain is here — some see a woman harassed for a T-shirt at a basketball game, others see a professional activist who got the confrontation she came for. What isn’t disputed: the video is real, Sey filmed it herself, and 24 hours later it’s a national story.