Throughout my life, I have shied away from sports due to the feelings of being trapped in the wrong body. At school, the day I always dreaded was the day we did PE (Psychical Education). I would think of any excuse not to have to play sports or have to go into the boys’ changing room to get changed. In my head, I was a woman who shouldn’t have to get changed in front of boys, or take part in the boys’ sports sessions - I should be with the girls. I was a girl after all. I was just born in the wrong body - right?
These feelings went all through my life until 2010 when I finally transitioned to be the woman I always wanted to be, but even then I shied away from sports because I didn’t feel comfortable with my body. I spent years wanting to do the sports I loved, and all the time I was scared of everyone else’s opinion, until alas I was too old to play competitive sport.