With far less trepidation than me, Nadia follows Pablo, Ralph, and me into the boys’ locker room for our meet-and-greet with the wrestling team. “Gender is a construct,” Nadia says, and while I agree on a theoretical level, footballs are also constructs that can hit you in the face.

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