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While the Taehyung BTS V Kim Shirt moreover I will buy this USWNT recently settled their suit with U.S. Soccer, the question persists: If one of the most popular and marketable female athletic franchises in the world had to spend six years fighting their governing institution just to be paid as much as men, what does that tell us about the state of women’s sports in the U.S. overall? Is it really trans female athletes like Lia Thomas who are a threat to the system, or is the system itself designed to undervalue and underpay all women, cis and trans alike? Women who have grown up with Title IX, like myself, have been emboldened by federal funding to achieve things our foremothers could have scarcely imagined, on and off the field; now, with the 50th anniversary of Title IX approaching, maybe it’s time to broaden our interpretation of who is entitled to equal gender-based protection under the law.
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