GENDER IS IRRELEVANT

Football is for boys. Synchronized swimming is for girls. Dance... well, it depends on the type of music; if it is sexy music, the girls have to dance it. But if it is boys' music, such as rock music, they are who have to dance it, right? What would it be like if some boys dance to the Spice Girls' rhythm? Weird? Maybe disgusting?

Honestly, if you have read until here without any problem, without questioning anything, you have a lot to see and learn!!

Boys dancing If you wanna be my lover? Sure!! Even better than girls. Take a look!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw-faHKKjPU

Why do we have to put gender into sports? Where is the classification of sports, divided into girl's sports and boy's sports? I would like to see it...

This is what we want to discuss in this publication, and for that, I will talk about my experience.

When I was 8 years old I started Kung-fu, a supposed sport for boys. There wasn't any problem, it was the most normal thing, boys doing martial arts. In fact, thinking now, I had a few girl's companions, why do you think?

At 17 years old, I left kung-fu to start rhythmic gymnastics. It was a 360º change for me, my parents didn't want to because it was a girl's sport and I was a boy. It was hard for them to accept it but finally, they did. In the end, parents have to support their children, but what about the rest of society?

Honestly, for me, it wasn't easy to understand. Understanding why people make fun of it, for doing what i like and what i want. Why I was less than the others? Just for not playing football. Why I wasn't as accepted as them?

Those were stages, people's mentality changes, and fortunately, it changed a little. Step by step it started to be more accepted, even some people admired me, for doing what I like, for fighting for my dreams, not carrying about what society says.

However... 4 years later, why are there still people with a sexist mentality? Can't girls be better than boys at football? Or, can't I be better at rhythmic gymnastics than my teammates who are girls?

Little by little we are going forward, very slowly, slowlier than I would like. When boys doing twerking are going to be accepted and well seen? And boxer girls?

All these things take us to hate and contempt of what isn't "normal", and society doesn't help us. That's it how at many schools we can find a lot of bullying cases to children who practice a sport which doesn't match with their gender. All these teasing and threats bring them to give up their sport, their dreams. There's nothing more...

Nowadays, I'm very proud of what I did, what I do and what I will do. Rhytmic gymnastics formed me as a person and has given me lots of values and memories. I have to say that I will fight against all these things, to broke all these stereotypes, because they don't help us in nothing.

Every person has to be free on doing what they want to do and what they like, always respecting the rest. What matters if I like football, gymnastics, volleyball or ballet. Sports haven't got gender and they will never.