
Caleb White
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A statement from the National Women's Soccer League.




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“My team turned on me.” Elizabeth Eddy wrote an op-ed in the New York Post asking her league to clearly define what a woman is and whether that definition will be protected in the league. She argued that if women’s sports are meant to protect a category, that protection has to come first. But after the article, her teammates pushed back, calling it harmful and even labeling it transphobic and racist. She said, "I was 100% shocked. The words I wrote there’s no way they could be taken that way." The response from her teammates left her heartbroken for days. But instead of firing back, she asked God, "How do I respond? How do I love people well in this?” She chose to extend grace and publicly invited her teammates to have honest conversations, even in disagreement. “It’s okay to disagree,” she said. “But we can’t resort to bullying and name-calling, which I would say that clip shows.” She invited the teammates to her wedding and offered an olive branch of reconcilation, but just because a conversation is uncomfortable doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be had.







