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After scoring a penalty goal and securing the USWNT a spot in the 2024 Olympics, Alex Morgan filled her trophy with margaritas.

With the Tokyo Olympics, the USWNT's Fight For Equal Pay Once Again Takes Center Stage "E-qu-al pay! E-qu-al pay! E-qu-al pay!" That was the chant that rang out on July 5, in a stadium in my hometown of Hartford, CT, where the US Women's National Team (USWNT) was playing the last game of their Summer Sendoff series. It may not be the chant you'd expect from a sporting event, but it's become commonplace at USWNT matches in the more than two years since the players filed suit against the US Soccer Federation (USSF) citing gender discrimination and unfair wages. The US women make a strong case f...

Billie Jean King and Megan Rapinoe (Getty) US soccer champion Megan Rapinoe and tennis legend Billie Jean King have backed a challenge to Idaho’s new anti-transgender sporting law. The lesbian sporting heroes signed onto an amicus brief urging a federal appeals court to toss out the bill rammed through by Idaho Republicans earlier this year, which bans schools and colleges from letting transgender girls from taking part in girls’ sports. Rapinoe and King are just two of the 176 current and former athletes in women’s sports who signed the friend-of-the-court brief, rebutting claims the ...