Manon, the first transgender handball referee

Manon was born in the body of a boy, 20 years ago.

And she is a sports enthusiast.

For several months, this young woman from Calvados "has made many changes to become herself, in her personal life and on the handball courts", says

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She thus became the first transgender referee in this discipline.

“I played football and then did archery.

I was a goalkeeper in handball for the boys, now I can referee departmental matches, but not play in a girls' team, ”she explains to

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Unable to play in a club

In her second year of maths at the University of Caen, she does have a student card with her first name, but she is a member of the Troarn handball club (a small town between Caen and Cabourg), as she still has "a M” on his identity card, it is impossible for him to play with women.

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If mores and the view of society are changing on the question of gender and sexual identity, the road is long in the world of sport, because it divides each discipline into two categories: female competition against male competition.

Manon has started legal proceedings to demonstrate that the sex indicated on her civil status does not correspond to that of her social life, but she knows that the journey is far from over.

It will take years.

The "vaginoplasty" is scheduled for 2024. She began her hormonal treatments a year ago (antiandrogens, estrogen and progesterone), "act 1 of a transition she has been thinking about since adolescence," says

 “I must have been 13 or 14 years old.

I felt like a girl but I said to myself that it was perhaps temporary, that I was young”.

It was not temporary.

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