Is Megan Rapinoe a Victim?

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If you thought this week could not get any worse — a global pandemic, a cratering equity market, municipal quarantines, our national public life grinding to a virtual halt — consider that a lawyer said something demonstrably true about women's sports that angered soccer star Megan Rapinoe. The controversy arises from a $66 million lawsuit by the U.S. Women's National Team (WNT) against the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF), which claims that the WNT was subject to unlawful gender discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The women's team claims that it has been afforded a “discriminatory rate of pay” by the USSF and demands multimillion-dollar restitution payments from the federation.

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