There weren't any girls' teams when I first started playing so me and another girl played with the boys.

Yes, and I loved playing on a team with boys. I was welcomed at every club, they accepted me and I always felt at home. Playing against boys definitely helped develop my athleticism, my reaction time and my aggressiveness.

So you were given the feeling that women's football wasn't that important. I had to fight to have the possibility to train with the boys, because you either had to fight for that or move somewhere else.

I started playing with boys in the streets, then a coach saw me to play in a girls’ team. I moved between clubs, until I came to Mameldi Sundowns only this year.

When you play with boys, it's different because of their speed, the way they handle the ball and their strength. I really learned a lot from that and it has also made me a better player.

If I didn't start with the boys I don't think I would be the player I am today. I had to be stronger and faster, otherwise you couldn't keep up.

Since I was a young girl, times have changed, but when I was a little girl, I would play with the boys and I was the only girl in the team, but I had a great time.

Playing in boys’ teams can be really difficult. It’s a test of your character. You have to push yourself out of comfort zones and try and view it as a challenge if it’s something that you really want to do.

Since I was the only girl in the team when I was a kid, it built my character. I was accepted in my team, but not always by the opposing team.

Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.

We see a big difference at such an early age where boys have great opportunities to get into an academy and have the best coaches, to learn about football at an early age. Girls don't have this. They're often coached by their parents for a long time and from an early age it starts to be unequal. A lot of clubs should have their focus on it because it all starts there.

I wanted to be a boy when I was growing up because I was in love with all of the male dancers I knew and they were all gay. And I thought, Well, if I was a boy, they'd love me. So I got into role-playing then. That's where it began. I remember when I was still in high school, I had cut my hair off really short, and I was totally anorexic - I had no boobs - and I would dress like a boy and go to gay clubs and my goal was to trick men into thinking I was a boy.

We have seen numerous instances in which the presence of just one male on a female team is enough to knock women and girls off the podium.
Moreover, allowing athletes born male to compete in women’s and girls’ sports also dramatically heightens the vulnerability of female athletes to injury. Regrettably, the fear of experiencing such harm can and does result in women and girls choosing to self-exclude themselves from participation.

In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn’t good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.