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Álex Alcaide is

subsidiary

... female.

Last weekend his team won

against Pujadas, and the Catalan club had the idea of ​​posting a photo of Álex on Twitter, but the responses forced the entity to post a second tweet: "The whole of Europe with Álex. No We will tolerate gender-based attacks."

Transphobia also won by a landslide.

Álex has one letter left as a woman, the 'F' on his ID, and his soccer team.

, when he still had the girl's name that his parents had given him, he started playing football in his hometown, Mataró, with the aim of one day resembling

.

However, as a teenager he decided to set himself an even greater challenge than being a Barça player: being a boy.

Three and a half years ago, when he played for Unió Esportiva Vilassar de Mar, he began his masculinizing hormone therapy.

"I mentioned it to the team and there was no problem, however, as time went by and the transition became more noticeable, especially last year, in the fields outside, if the score went against them, there were parents who They began to shout, they began to complain, they began to say...".

The fact that?

"Well, if he's a boy, it's not fair... anyway,

They think they're insulting but in the end it's ignorance."

But you play with advantage?

"I've always had speed, I've always had a big body... It's true that with hormone therapy your muscles grow a little more."

On the day of 23-0, when he messed up on Twitter,

, and even the players of the rival team came out to defend him.

"It's true that some rivals look at you at first and are surprised, but it won't go any further. If the match were chosen only for me... But it's not true. The day I saw that I was taking advantage of this situation, I I would leave. Today I am one more, and many players go over me".

Álex Alcaide's profile as a Europa.CE Europa player

Alex's DNI already says Álex, but changing the 'F' is more complicated.

"I know kids who have been there for more than two years... paperwork, more documentation, a mess, but with the trans law they say it could be done in four months."

It's not that Alex wants to play in the women's, it's because of that 'F' he can't do it in the men's.

Is it the goal?

"Well, I would have to see myself.

I train with my teammates and I don't see myself as superior at any time. A male is much stronger, much more power, much more speed, and it's something I don't reach and I am aware, with which, when I can, I still don't want to".

Álex Alcaide controls a ball in the last league match.CE Europe

Álex is not the only trans boy who is playing on a women's team.

"There are many of us, it's not that you don't see so much......".

This is not even the first time that he has passed Europa.

Last year it was the same, but the other way around, with

, with a trans woman, who has come out in defense of Álex on social networks.

She managed to change the 'M' for the 'F' on her ID, but not like that.

The insults and harassment in the stands and social networks forced her to hang up her boots.

Her case is reminiscent of that of

, the swimmer who caused the International Swimming Federation to ban trans swimmers from competing in the category of their felt or adopted sex, rather than their biological one.

Álex, in fact, does it in the biological: "If it is that, in the end, what are we left with...".

It also does in the biological, the use of clothing, precisely one of the arguments against the trans law, which would allow access to them to men who say they feel women.

"Lies! In

in a women's locker room or pick up someone on the street. They are excuses for the fear of change. Today you have to go out with a thousand eyes so that people don't judge you, don't criticize or hit you. All extremes are bad."

Another argument against is the possibility that minors make irreversible decisions.

"When a person makes a decision, it is not from today to tomorrow. In my case, I have known it for as long as I can remember.

, otherwise I will start earlier. I cannot speak for others. I speak of my case and I felt that way since I was little. It was an idea that was very clear to me and remains clear. If they had left me, and I had had all the information I have today, I would have done it sooner".

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