Spanish membership Fenix FC has develop into the primary all-trans squad to affix a soccer federation in Europe
A soccer workforce consisting completely of transgender males has begun taking part in in a regional league in Spain, Reuters has reported.
The squad, known as Fenix FC, has formally competed within the males’s fifth division within the Spanish area of Catalonia after being integrated into a neighborhood membership within the Barcelona suburb of Sant Feliu de Llobregat, the company stated in an article on Saturday.
This makes the Catalan facet the primary ever all-trans workforce to affix a soccer federation in Europe, it added.
Fenix FC – named after the legendary phoenix – performed its first sport within the league on September 21 and misplaced 19-0.
The founding father of Fenix FC, Hugo Martinez, instructed Reuters that he determined to arrange an all-trans squad after being requested to go away the ladies’s workforce after he started transitioning to a person by means of hormone remedy.
The workforce’s captain, Luke Ibanez, stated he joined the membership as a result of he feared that he wouldn’t be accepted and will even endure violence on a males’s workforce.
“Fenix is a workforce of trans boys created completely by trans boys, however I believe it’s greater than that – a household, a secure house the place you may be free and specific your self nonetheless you need and the way you actually really feel,” Ibanez added.
In late 2022, Spain handed laws that permits residents to vary their authorized gender with out the necessity for psychological or different medical analysis.
The Catalan Soccer Federation instructed Reuters that its males’s leagues have been combined for the previous two seasons, with individuals of any gender in a position to participate. The gamers also can compete underneath a reputation that differs from their authorized title, it added.
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