While the WNBA seems intent on self-destruction and Major League Baseball tries to regain trust after targeting Christians, at least one franchise is reassuring fans that not every sport is woke. In a refreshing move that piggybacks on the broader trend to downplay LGBT activism in the NHL, the Dallas Stars announced on Friday that the team won’t be hosting a Pride Night in the 2026-27 season — giving fans a win before the puck even drops.

The change, which came to light when the Stars released their special event calendar, comes after a half-decade of rainbow-drenched celebrations at American Airlines Center. In its place, the team’s promotional schedule includes a “Hockey Unites Us” theme, with a focus on women in sports. (Real women, we assume, not the phony version the Left can’t bring itself to quit.) 

When ownership was pressed about the change, Stars spokesman Joe Calvillo insisted that this new direction was intentional. “The new Hockey Unites Us Night allows our organization a chance to use our platform to celebrate and support a different underrepresented community each season.” In addition to the emphasis on women’s sports, the team is honoring black history, Hockey Fights Cancer, Noche Mexicana, and First Responders.

Of course, the NHL understands better than anyone what a bloodbath Pride can be after their league-wide rebellion over rainbow jerseys hit the fan in early 2023. Since then, Commissioner Gary Bettman has taken a surprisingly conciliatory position on free speech, scrapping the policy that forced players to don the colors of sexual radicalism. Hockey’s revolution, sparked by dozens of courageous skaters who refused to go along with the league’s activism, even spilled over into baseball, where the tradition of Pride jerseys was also banned — shaking the sports establishment to its very core.

Now, a couple of years after the league was humbled by the country’s outrage, it’s great to see the Stars’ management take steps to purge this kind of political extremism. Of course, as most locals know, the franchise won’t just be joining the Carolina Hurricanes and Utah Mammoth in refusing to devote a night to LGBT indoctrination, but also their across-town counterparts, the Texas Rangers — the only team in Major League Baseball to resist the pressure to host a Pride-themed event. 

“It’s an appropriate pullback from the fiduciary suicide that [professional sports] was committing,” Family Research Council’s Ken Blackwell, a minority owner of the Cincinnati Reds, insisted. Most fans just want to be entertained, he argues. “This sort of ‘advocacy athleticism,’” as he called it, “is just a slippery slope.”

The good news, FRC’s Joseph Backholm told The Washington Stand, is that this is indicative of a very significant transformation in our culture. “I do think the wave of wokeness has crested, and this is another example of it,” he underscored. “When enough courageous athletes refused to comply, they forced these teams to justify their decision to order athletes to participate in a leftist political movement as a condition of employment. They had a hard time justifying it and alienated a lot of fans in the process,” he pointed out, “so many of them seem to be retreating from their activism and deciding to just be sports teams. It was always deeply intolerant of them, and now they seem to recognize that.”

Across the country, Americans have been fueling these changes with their grassroots pressure campaign — and they should be proud of what they’ve accomplished. “All people who believe in biological truth and defending women and children from gender ideology should count this as a win,” Stefan Padfield, principal at Free Enterprise Institute and senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told TWS. “A few short years ago, a president of the United States was giving the Pride flag prominence of place over the U.S. flag, and every sports franchise sponsored a Pride night. Now, the Dallas Stars have apparently had enough of trying to convince fans that there are 72 genders,” he pointed out. “While the WNBA still seems committed to undermining the ‘W,’ reality is ultimately undefeated and will continue to rack up wins as we work our way back to sanity.”