evidence: Megan Rapinoe took the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s battle for equal pay to the White House on Wednesday, declaring while on a stage with President Biden and first lady Jill Biden that, despite her enormous success with the team, "I have been devalued, I’ve been disrespected and dismissed because I am a woman." [...] The 35-year-old Rapinoe, who plays professionally for OL Reign of the National Women’s Soccer League, is an Olympic gold medalist and a two-time World Cup champion. In 2019, the last full year of international competition, she won the Golden Ball award as the best overall player at the World Cup, the Golden Boot award as the tournament’s leading scorer and was named women’s world player of the year. She is an outspoken critic of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s treatment of the women’s national team and was a major figure behind a gender-discrimination lawsuit filed against the USSF in 2019. [...] Rapinoe is one of the most highly decorated members of a team that has had consistent success for years, winning four World Cup and four Olympic championships as it has outperformed the U.S. men’s national team.