When Grace Mckenzie decided to undergo gender transition and live openly as a woman three years ago, she resigned herself to giving up team sports.
As a child, she played everything from baseball and soccer to karate, and these communities were crucial to her well-being. But transphobia is rife in mainstream sports, and she didn’t see how she could be accepted as a transgender woman.
“I was convinced I would lose access to that [part of my life],” Mckenzie, now 27 and based in the United States, told me. “For a long time, it was enough to keep me from transitioning.”
