Transgender rugby player playing with 'a smile on my face'

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Born Nicholas Gareth Morgan, she played representative rugby for east Wales as a teenager.

Injury ended that initial involvement with the sport but, after a decade wrestling with gender identity and transitioning to female, Kelly is back playing - and loving it.

Having impressed in friendly fixtures for Porth Harlequins Ladies, she now hopes to compete in the Welsh women's leagues from September.

Transgender women participating in female sport is a divisive subject, and one not confined to Welsh rugby.

Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) guidelines - which are "fully committed to the principles of equality" - state Kelly can play providing her blood-measured testosterone levels are within a certain range.

And she has taken a daily dose of the female hormone oestrogen for the past 18 months.

"They don't half make you cry," she says. "My body shape, my size... it's scary the massive difference it makes. I don't think I'll ever get used to hormones."
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Brian Minty, who founded the team four years ago, says: "I've always taken rugby as a totally inclusive sport and we're happy to welcome Kelly to the club.

"One of the main things Kelly does is give confidence to the other people around her. We've got a number of people who've only just started playing."

He can't resist a joke, though, adding: "She's going to be a good, good player for the next few years, as long as we can stop her injuring players in training."

Minty-Madley says Kelly is not treated differently to other members of the squad.

"Kelly has become completely and utterly absorbed into the team," she says.

"She's one of us. She comes in, trains hard, plays hard and parties hard with us afterwards.

"She folded a girl like a deckchair during a game, which was quite funny, but they're still friends."
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www.bbc.co.uk

Transgender rugby player has 'a smile on my face' - BBC Sport

Kelly Morgan says she is playing with a smile on her face after taking up rugby again following transition from male to female.
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Hellhound105 said:
I say to hell with all this different divisions.

One division for all, then we see who is the fastest, strongest and then we dont get kak articles like this.
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Well that is what will happen on the trajectory that society is on.

Woman will finally be back in the kitchen, where they damn right belong. :ROFL:
 
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konfab said:
Well that is what will happen on the trajectory that society is on.

Woman will finally be back in the kitchen, where they damn right belong. :ROFL:
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Lol, inequality in sport is why we don't have good sandwiches anymore.
Down with sex discrimination in sport! Only one League for all!
 
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I wonder if it plays in the number 8 jersey - ie. if it is the 8'th man.
 
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Aquila ka Hecate said:
This is the crux of the matter.
No matter how much eostrogen you now take, nothing is going to take away that skeletal structure, lung capacity and muscle build.
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And men have bigger hearts, which means you can pump more oxygen to your muscles than women can, even a man's fat structure is diffrent to a woman's thanks to diffrent chromosones.
 
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