Not too long ago, former soccer star and LGBTQ+ activist Megan Rapinoe was a guest on ABC News’s disreputable talk show, “The View,” where she once again badgered the audience to accept men playing in women’s sports.

During her diatribe against other female athletes who believe women’s sports should be for women only, Rapinoe scaremongered about the testing that professional athletes might have to undergo. “There’s a bill in Washington happening right now that’s going to require all girls — just, like, full stop — to go through a sex test, an invasive, like, examining [of] their genitals, to see if they’re a woman,” she huffed.

Well, for good reason, a major sporting association has made sex testing a requirement for athletes to compete in tournaments and in the 2028 Olympics. In late July, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced testing to ensure fairness in women’s competition. Tennis relies on speed, strength, and endurance; biological reality cannot be ignored, as gender-confused men would absolutely dominate. Even the great Venus and Serena Williams couldn’t beat male opponents in exhibition matches.

The WTA’s measure is common sense; nevertheless, its announcement set the trans activists’ hair on fire. Yet what Rapinoe alluded to is a far cry from what the WTA is proposing. Instead of examining private parts, the athletes will undergo a one-time SRY gene screening (the SRY gene is typically found on the Y chromosome). To obtain a sample, players will have to submit to a cheek swab, blood test, or saliva sample.

This is such a non-invasive ask that none of the top three women’s players object to the new measure.

Aryna Sabalenka, current world No. 1, supported the SRY screening, telling reporters, “I think it’s really important to keep the fairness in our tour.” She added, “Biologically, men are way stronger than women, so I feel like it would not really be fair for women to compete against biological men.”

The Belarusian superstar has been adamant in her position on this issue, so her support isn’t surprising. World No. 2 Coco Gauff, however, was more of a gamble. This black American tennis star has made some of her political stances public, including comments about racial equity. In other words, she subscribes to the Left’s racial narratives. However, with the WTA’s testing announcement, Gauff said she “kind of” agrees with it to protect women’s sports. As OutKick’s Dan Zaksheske points out, Gauff softened the blow with her woke-placating commentary, but ultimately, she thinks keeping fairness in women’s tennis is important.

Finally, there’s American world No. 3 Jessica Pegula. Even though Pegula intentionally focuses on tennis over politics, she said in a rare comment: “I think the WTA just wanted to update their policy based on what they have seen from other sporting organizations. So far, at least from my point of view, I don’t really have any pushback on it. I think I haven’t heard, even being on council, no players have really mentioned or said anything about it. Now that it’s been announced, I think we’ll see. Obviously now that we are here in Toronto, a bigger tournament, and going into Cincy when the testing starts, we’ll see if there’s any more feedback. I think so far no one’s really said anything, and I think it’s more just the tour making a decision, updating it, and it kind of is what it is.”

Since Pegula sits on the players’ council, she would know about grumblings among the women.

Good on the WTA for leading the way. Women must lead the way on this issue to protect our sports for future generations. I do not want my daughters playing sports to the best of their abilities only to be beaten out by a mentally ill young man whom society is coddling. I would also never want them to suffer a traumatic, career-ending injury because they had to play against a gender-confused boy.

Megan Rapinoe thinks she is making sports more inclusive. In reality, she is pulling up the ladder she climbed to her own success and spitting on the women trying to reach her heights by promoting an ideology that would make their own athletic dreams impossible. She is pushing women right out of sports, and the sheer short-sightedness of her stance is baffling.

Hopefully other women’s sports leagues will follow the WTA’s example and not the WNBA’s.

The Women’s Tennis Association’s proactive, commonsense protection of women is a fight worth having — and it’s very winnable. Reality is on our side.