Sydney Sweeney Manages to Clear Up the Sports World’s Gender Confusion

If only for as long as the latest non-controversy lasts.

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Sydney Sweeney poses during a photocall at the Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy, September 3, 2026.

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Actress and model Sydney Sweeney posed nude with sports equipment for a sports-betting site. Female athletes, along with feminists and the media, are furious — but now, they suddenly understand who really qualifies as a “woman in sports.”

The Associated Press ran the headline, “Female athletes accuse Sydney Sweeney ad of sexualizing women in sports.” Forbes published a story titled, “Why Female Athletes Are Fighting Back Against Sydney Sweeney’s New Ad.” (But how do we know they’re female athletes? I thought we just had no way of telling, and asking someone for their chromosomes would be unforgivably invasive?)

Abigail Anthony

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