“Actually, if you read the article, she is calling for HIGHER standards for women earlier in their testing, not lower standards.”
If the military had those higher, tougher standards for training and testing for women earlier, they would get complaints (and likely lawsuits) that the physical fitness standards for women are too high and discriminatory.
I bet ultimately they will end up dropping their physical fitness standards for everyone (men and women) and then we can all be happy pretending that the average woman is equal in strength to the average man.
My point being is that she’s not calling for women to be let off easy.