Women’s soccer faces plenty of serious threats. So why the panic about trans players? | Lesley Ryder

Angel City’s Elizabeth Eddy was rebuked by her own teammates for an op-ed on trans players. It’s easy to understand their objections

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n 26 October, Angel City FC’s Elizabeth Eddy made her first post on X in nearly two years. In it, Eddy in essence responded to the Guardian’s report that the NWSL had quietly dropped its inclusion policy for trans and intersex athletes, leaving the league’s future stance on the matter undecided.

The New York Post gave Eddy’s writing a signal boost the next day, republishing it in full.

“I’m concerned that without clarity about who the league is for, it will lose its identity and its momentum,” Eddy wrote in the piece, which broadly advocated for a ban on trans athletes from the NWSL, to protect “the integrity of women’s sports” so the league does not lose “its identity and its momentum.”