NWSL veteran faces backlash over column

A Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League membership has develop into divided after one among its gamers known as on the league to “undertake gender norms” to guard the group’s integrity and develop the game.

Elizabeth Eddy’s column appeared within the New York Post final week and he or she requested, “How will we protect girls’s rights and truthful competitors whereas selling significant inclusion?”

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Angel Metropolis FC defender Elizabeth Eddy (44) in the course of the second half in opposition to Bay FC at PayPal Park on July 26, 2024. (Darren Yamashita/USA TODAY Sports activities)

Eddy wrote that controversies in swimming and athletics have uncovered skilled girls’s soccer as missing requirements in terms of intersex and transgender athletes. She wrote that the NWSL “should undertake a transparent customary,” including that solely gamers born with ovaries needs to be allowed to play, as per the usual within the Girls’s Tremendous League in the UK, or the league ought to undertake an SRY gene take a look at, like World Athletics and World Boxing.

“Equity and inclusivity are core American values. Affordable individuals can disagree about the place to attract the road, however avoiding the dialog altogether by excluding completely different factors of view doesn’t serve us. In truth, we owe it to present and future feminine athletes to repair this,” the 11-year veteran wrote.

However Eddy’s column didn’t go down properly along with her personal teammates.

Sarah Gorden and Angelina Anderson each delivered scathing rebukes of Eddy.

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Angel Metropolis FC defender Sarah Gorden (11) kicks the ball in opposition to Chicago Stars in the course of the first half of a match at SeatGeek Stadium on November 2, 2025. (Melissa Tamez/Imagn Pictures)

“That article doesn’t communicate for this workforce on this locker room. I’ve had many conversations with my teammates over the previous couple of days and they’re damage and harmed by the article, and they’re additionally disgusted by a few of the issues that have been mentioned within the article and it is extremely vital for me to say that,” Gorden mentioned Friday.

“We do not agree with the issues which might be written for lots of causes, however more often than not the undertones additionally come throughout as transphobic and racist. The article requires genetic testing on sure gamers and it has a photograph of an African participant because the headline. That may be very damaging, and for me it’s inherently racist as a result of singling out this neighborhood based mostly on the truth that they give the impression of being completely different or are completely different is totally an issue. As a blended girl, with a black household, I’m devastated by the undertone of this text.

Anderson talked about what she believed the membership stood for.

“For me personally, once I consider LA, and I consider Angel Metropolis, I consider a spot constructed on inclusivity and love for all individuals. That is what our locker room is, that is what our employees is, that is what our fanbase is. Angel Metropolis is a spot for everybody. It all the time can be. That is the way it was from the start, that is the way it all the time can be. Interval,” she mentioned.

Angel Metropolis FC goalkeeper Angelina Anderson (19) watches the sport in the course of the first half in opposition to Racing Louisville FC at Lynn Household Stadium on September 27, 2025. (EM Sprint/Imagn pictures)

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“I feel there’s a component of timing on this state of affairs that makes this really feel like a really large problem that we have now to beat as a workforce, on high of an already very difficult yr. And it is actually not the word that we wish to finish on as a gaggle, and so I simply need everybody to know that we’re doing our greatest within the locker room to keep up the respect and connection of this workforce and we stay up for ending the season as positively as attainable.”

The NWSL additionally responded to Eddy’s column. The League informed it The Athletics it was “dedicated to working instantly with the NWSL Gamers Affiliation on any modifications to our league insurance policies.”

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