Orlando Pride forward Sydney Leroux is calling out Portland Thorns owner Merritt Paulson and the Thorns organization for enacting a policy that prohibits children from opposing team from entering the field after a match.

Leroux asked the Thorns organization to allow her son, Cassius Dwyer, to walk on the field at Providence Park after Sunday's game between the Thorns and the Pride. But the Thorns organization denied her request.

Leroux took to Twitter Tuesday to accuse Paulson of denying her son access to the field because he was angry about the Portland Timbers' loss to Orlando City SC on April 8. Leroux's husband, Dom Dwyer, earned his club a controversial penalty kick late in that match as Orlando went on to win 3-2. Paulson was fined by MLS this week for criticizing the officiating in that game on Twitter.

The Thorns responded to Leroux's accusations with a formal statement on Twitter explaining their policy.

"Providence Park security does not allow visiting players' families onto the pitch postgame. Despite this, your mother and son were given every accommodation possible before, during and after the game, including locker room access. This has nothing to do with the issues you have described," the Thorns wrote from their official Twitter account.

According to the Thorns, Orlando was made aware of the policy well before the game with no issues.

Paulson responded to Leroux's accusations on Twitter as well.

"Instead of inventing conspiracy theories and drama maybe you would be better off focusing on playing? Just a thought," he wrote in a since-deleted Tweet.

In a separate tweet, Paulson reiterated that it is club policy to only allow the families of Thorns and Timbers players on the field after games.

Leroux then responded by posting a letter to Paulson on Twitter. In the letter, she said that the Thorns' policy didn't exist in the past and that mothers in the NWSL shouldn't be held to the same rules as fathers in MLS.

"We are not in the same situation as 'opposing teams the Timbers play,'" she wrote. "Do you know why? Because we are women and we are their mothers and the same rules don't apply."

Here are the full tweets from Leroux:

And then implemented a rule that I can’t have my son on Portland’s field after the game because he got his feelings hurt. Really disappointing. https://t.co/GCXpNapAut — Sydney Leroux Dwyer (@sydneyleroux) April 17, 2018

Here is the full response from the Thorns:

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