A National Women’s Soccer League club is divided after Angel City FC star Elizabeth Eddy called on the league to “adopt gender standards” to protect women’s sports.
Eddy wrote a column in the New York Post where she queried, “How do we preserve women’s rights and competitive fairness while fostering meaningful inclusion?”
“Fairness and inclusion are core American values. Reasonable people can disagree about where to draw lines, but avoiding the conversation altogether by shutting out diverse views does not serve us. In fact, we owe it to current and future female athletes to solve this,” she wrote. “The NWSL must adopt a clear standard. One option is all players must be born with ovaries, as the FA requires. Another option is an SRY gene test,
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