June 28, 2020 – 01:28
The discipline respects the Gender Identity Law in the world since 2015 and the Chubutense athlete had a lot to do with it.
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Jessica Millamán is extremely proud of her main achievement: having changed the laws to make field hockey a sport that has respected the gender identity law worldwide since 2015.
“At the beginning it did not fall from what I had done, today I am totally proud of having contributed a grain of sand for the LGBTIQ + collective towards true inclusion in sport. I am happy in life to have been the protagonist, “said Millamán, hairdresser and advertising model.
Jessica’s fight to play in a professional league began in Chubut, her native province, when she returned to practice the activity at age 27. It had been 12 years since she had left her house and had been through a lot, she even had to prostitute herself to subsist. The Amateur Association of Field and Lawn Hockey del Valle denied him the possibility of signing her in the Germinal Club of Rawson, arguing that there were “physical differences”.
Finally, the Justice ordered that they let her play. She already had her DNI as a woman.
Since November 2015, the Argentine Confederation – as an entity affiliated to the International Hockey Federation (FIH) – has adopted the guidelines of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on sex change and hyperandrogenism. Those people who change from male to female “are eligible to compete in the female category,” says the IOC, with some conditions: among others, that the athlete has declared that his gender identity is female and that his total testosterone level in serum is below 10 nmol / L for at least 12 months before your first competition.
“Hockey is the sport I love the most. This year I was going to score at a club to compete, but the pandemic caught me. I started playing it as a girl because my sisters practiced it and at 10 years old I stopped because I didn’t feel identified with the boys. He also sneaked skate, because he was in a very macho and ignorant family, where skate and hockey were for women, and soccer for men. I resumed growing up, with several things resolved, with the support of my family and when the woman’s identity document came to me, ”Jessica said.
On the situation of women’s soccer and Mara Gómez, the trans player who still has not been allowed to compete in the AFA championship, Millamán said: “In any branch of sport you have to achieve the same thing that was achieved in hockey” .
Jessica Millamán had an unforgettable 2019. “Last year I signed my first rental agreement as required by law and I set up the hair salon at home. In addition, the advertising of my life came out as a graphic model (it is the face of Dove, the line of personal care products). A dream to see me there! On top of that I have a contract for one more year ”, he said.
Jessica kicked off so that other trans players can federate in the country.
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