Former professional soccer player Elizabeth Eddie caught so much backlash last year when she released an op-ed in the New York Post,

urging the National Women's Soccer League to define what a woman is to protect women's sports.

Her friends and teammates publicly called her a racist and accused her of bigotry, but she did not back down.

And here she is today to tell us her story and where her courage and clarity comes from.

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Elizabeth, thanks so much for joining us. Tell us a little bit about who you are and why you were in the headlines last year.

First of all, thank you so much for having me. I chose to write an article October 27th in the New York Post,

and it was basically asking my league to put a policy in place that would protect the women's soccer for women.

And I didn't realize how controversial that would be. I knew it would definitely be controversial, but didn't realize the

gravity or the depth that would go. And that's, I would say, what got the headlines. And it's funny

because I had like, I really didn't want that. I kind of knew what that, a little bit of like,

this is gnarly, this intense this is like a lot but

I remember um when charlie kirk got assassinated I went to church with my fiance at the time who's now

my husband and the pastor was really clear he was like this is actually a attack on free speech and if people

are in positions to speak truth and they choose not to will continue to lose that right and at that point

I was like oh I know I need to do this. And backstory, I hadn't, I had brought up to Archer like, hey, like, this is going on in our league. And he's like, you should probably write an article. And I was like, that's your fiance or your husband now. Yeah. And so I, for a couple months, he's like, oh, are you going to write this? And I'm like, oh, maybe back and forth, like totally waffling. And then eventually I was like, no, I'm not. I want to keep playing, which was objectively like a selfish move slash out of fear. And then when that happened with Charlie, I was like, oh, this, we're at a point in culture where this actually matters a lot more than my selfish desire to play a sport. So it kind of made my vision get wider and bigger in my perspective. And then it kind of fast forwarded to like the article coming out. And then thankfully, I really appreciate that you like made a post to like share arrows with this girl because I remember being like, this is really gnarly. And then all of a sudden I was like oh some people are like like kind this is crazy

and then it totally kind of exposed that like wow like this is a huge topic huge a divide and

very big controversial issue in America right now okay let's go back to why you even felt the need

in the first place to write this article some people have no idea what's been going on in the

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