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=== Sports ===
Conversation surrounding exclusion and [[Women's rights in sports|gender inequality in sports]] has been around for decades. Some women have dressed as men to enter male sports, or registered in male sports using an alias.

==== Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb ====
[[Bobbi Gibb|Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb]] is the first woman to have competed in the [[Boston Marathon]]. In 1966 Bobbi Gibb wrote a letter to the [[Boston Athletic Association]] asking to participate in the race happening that year. When Gibb received her letter back in the mail she was faced with the news that her entry to the race was denied due to her gender. Rather than just accept her fate, Gibb did not take no for an answer and decided to run the marathon anyways—however, she would do it hidden as a man. On the day of the race Gibb showed up in an oversized sweatshirt, her brother's shorts, and men's running shoes. Gibb hid in the bushes until the race started and then joined in with the crowd. Eventually her fellow runners figured out Gibb's real gender but stated that they would make sure that she finished the race. Gibb ended up finishing her first Boston Marathon in 3 hours, 27 minutes and 40 seconds.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Boyer |first=Leroy |date=December 6, 2022 |title=RUNNING: Run for the Diamonds celebrates milestone |journal=Republican & Herald}}</ref> She crossed the finish line with blistered, bleeding feet from the men's running shoes she was wearing.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Petri |first=Alexandra |date=October 11, 2021 |title=Roberta Gibb broke barriers in the Boston Marathon. Now there's a statue of her feet |url=https://advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:63TP-S8P1-JBG3-61MD-00000-00&context=1516831. |journal=The New York Times |access-date=October 30, 2023 |archive-date=July 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240718121447/https://signin.lexisnexis.com/lnaccess/app/signin?back=https%3A%2F%2Fadvance.lexis.com%3A443%2Furl-api%2Flaapi%2Fdocument%3Fcollection%3Dnews%26id%3Durn%253AcontentItem%253A63TP-S8P1-JBG3-61MD-00000-00%26context%3D1516831.&aci=la |url-status=live }}</ref> Gibb's act of defiance influenced other women marathon runners of the time like [[Katherine Switzer]], who also registered under an alias to be able to run the race in 1967. It would not be until 1972 until there was an official women's race within the Boston Marathon.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

==== Sam Kerr ====
[[Sam Kerr]] is a forward for the [[Australia women's national soccer team|Australian Women's Soccer Team]] and [[Chelsea F.C. Women|Chelsea FC]] in the [[FA Women's Super League]]. Kerr has been regarded as one of the best forward players in the sport and has been one of the most highly paid players in women's soccer as well. While Kerr now shares the world state with other great women soccer players, as a young child she shared the field with young boys. Kerr grew up in a suburb of [[Perth]] where there was little to no access to young girls soccer teams in the direct area. Not having a girls team to play on did not bother Kerr though, she simply played on a youth boys team where all of her teammates just assumed she was also a boy. Kerr states in her book ''My Journey to the World Cup'' that she continued to hide her gender because she did not want to be treated any differently. In her book Kerr also revealed that when one of her teammates found out that she was, in fact a girl, he cried. While Kerr's act of hiding her gender was initially an accident, it is still an example of how women (and in the case a young girl) can create opportunities for themselves by looking or acting as a man.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saeed |first=Daanyal |date=August 14, 2023 |title=Sam Kerr details why she had to hide her gender as a junior footballer |url=https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/sam-kerr-opens-up-on-why-she-had-to-hide-her-gender-as-a-junior-footballer/news-story/031f7ce28ba2237ffa5296a5b8bdff5c |access-date=September 27, 2023 |website=news.com.au}}</ref>