It was an issue. And this time around Massy wasn't going to let it go away. The Women's World Cup in Canada being played entirely on artificial turf – every game, in every stadium. The turf became an international news story, more than 40 women athletes from the United States, Europe and South America took a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. It was straightforward: The major tournaments in men's soccer are played on real grass, so forcing women players to compete on plastic grass was clearly gender discrimination.
The complaint was aimed at FIFA, the governing body of world soccer, and the Canadian Soccer Association, that hosted the organization for the 2016 Women's World Cup. Those complainants were correct and everybody knew it. Celebrities endorsed it, the public saw
