We made history tonight. The first all trans masculine team to play a football match in Europe against a cis men’s team.
By Dawn Ennis
LONDON – The final score was lopsided, 8 to 1, but what the Dulwich Hamlet FC Supporters Team did in playing TRUK United FC on Friday was historic: This was the first time in Europe that an all-cisgender men’s soccer team competed against a team of trans men and trans-masculine players.
And as Pink News reported, it happened on the International Trans Day of Visibility in London.
“Many of the team had never met before. Some of them hadn’t played football since school, others were semi-pro,” said Harry Nicholas, author of A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar, who played center back in Friday’s match.
" I hope that trans kids see this and know there is a place for them in sport. That it is possible,” said Nicholas.
A crowd of more than 500 fans was in attendance at Champions Field, and when TRUK United scored a goal, there was a huge eruption of cheers, a moment Nicholas tweeted was “possibly the most emotional moment of my life.”
“We ran towards each other and hugged. Our manager Lucy and the whole squad joined us on the pitch. I’ve never felt a sense of community and joy quite like it before – we were playing a sport we love and owning it,” he told Pink News.
LGBTQ+ advocate and journalist Nick Heath called that goal “the greatest free kick goal I’ve ever seen live.”
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