While the general culture will argue about the merits of men competing in women’s sports across a number of mediums — podcasts, formal debates, talk shows — there’s one place where the argument seldom crops up…
Because when the cultural discourse shifts there, all rhetoric, feelings, and slogans go right out the window in favor of what actually happens.
This uncomfortable truth cropped up again when the University of Washington women’s soccer team faced a peculiar challenger amid their ongoing spring schedule.
If boys don’t have a competitive advantage against girls, why does the@UWWomen’s Soccer Team have a match this week against 14-year-old boys?pic.twitter.com/zzCgepxnbN
— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse)April 27, 2026
“If boys don’t have a competitive advantage against girls, why does the @UW Women’s Soccer Team have a match this week against 14-year-old boys?” podcaster Brandi Kruse said, alongside a snapshot of the schedule including a scrimmage against a youth soccer program’s under-14 boys’ team.
And here’s Kruse’s follow-uppostabout the scrimmage: “Update: The women lost.”
Interestingly enough, a final score was all but impossible to find, thoughBroBiblecited an Instagram user who claimed the final score was 2-1. This was all the women’s team posted about the scrimmage:
Beautiful night for some footy ⚽️
gg@CrossfirePrmr!pic.twitter.com/e8mEwvpzGd
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