‘Equality’ is not what female athletes actually want

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The recent “equal pay” controversy in women’s soccer inadvertently revealed the folly of equating men’s and women’s sports.

Men’s and women’s sports are fundamentally different things. In one, the best athletes compete without the need for any rules around gender. In the other, the exclusion of half the human race is a requirement for competition to flourish.

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