Ex man cannot play football

She changes gender, but is denied to play football. That's when it happened to Aeris Houlihan, Sheffield's sales manager, who started the process of becoming a woman in 2012 and will undergo definitive surgery next March. For the state, Aeris is a full-fledged woman. passport and driving license), but not because of the laws of English football which, once again, proved to be very strict: she was in fact denied permission to play, as a forward, for the Middleton Park Ladies team.

In fact, it seems that two years must pass from the operation before a transgender is given the opportunity to choose the team to play with. The reason? We want to prevent any remaining male hormones from affecting sports performance. It is a pity, however, that Aeris presented medical certificates attesting to its total hormonal transformation.