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NWSL Supports Barbra Banda Amid Controversial Gender Debate

11/5/2025

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Barbra Banda, forward for Orlando Pride in the NWSL, is backed by the league amid calls for sex testing and has Olympic hat-trick records and 50 international goals.
Elizabeth Eddy, a writer, wrote an essay advocating sex-based eligibility rules, which many deemed transphobic.
Banda was previously barred from the Women's Africa Cup of Nations for failing gender verification.
She was named to the FIFPRO Women's World 11 Squad.

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Story summary

Barbra Banda, forward for Orlando Pride in the NWSL, is backed by the league amid calls for sex testing and has Olympic hat-trick records and 50 international goals.
Elizabeth Eddy, a writer, wrote an essay advocating sex-based eligibility rules, which many deemed transphobic.
Banda was previously barred from the Women's Africa Cup of Nations for failing gender verification.
She was named to the FIFPRO Women's World 11 Squad.