Chennai: In eight years as a Pamungkas Frisbee player, Uttara 20 years old has become one of several handlers (players with the most disc time, responsible for facilitating movements), in the team, who identified as a woman.
This exclusivity seemed harmless until last year, when he came out as bisexual and embraced the possibility that he could surpass this gender binance at some point in the future.
“I am now beginning to pay attention when the redundant strategy, gender specifics are employed in the field; like men assumed players who are stronger and therefore dominate the field, and women are used as bait.” Now, thanks to the People Ultimate League (Pul), grassroots initiative, players who have the LGBTQIA + community can experience and show the essence of truly gender games such as the Ultimate Frisbee, what can be offered to the world of sports, and the Groundswell of empowerment Can be made in a marginalized community.
Non-binary athletes Rasika Gopalakrishnan (HE), Adwitiya Dawn and Mrna Shankaranaanan established Pul on December 2020 as a company to allow people traditionally override opportunities that they deserve.
Now, with grants from the Dutch-based woman win, and supported by the Indian Best Player Association (Upai) – The National Government Agency for sports in this country will collect a team that includes a mixed ratio of women, men, non-binary players and LGBTQIA +.
The new structure will aim to diversify the gender ratio of 4: 3 in seven members on the date seven members, as determined by the Federation of Disc Flying World, which gives male players and women the same game, alternately every two points.
As a mixed-gender sport, the referee itself, low contact, the main frisbee is always visible hopefully for a safe room and a level of playing levels that can be made for non-binary gender and sexual minority.
For more than 40 years, the game has an ‘open’ division, along with ‘mix’, ‘woman’, ‘Master’, and ‘Grandmaster’ division.
Practically, however, the ‘open’ category has not been diversified as much as possible to be, believes the player.
It was only five years ago in 2016 that the World Fly Disk Federation – International Authority that regulates Frisbee Sports – released specific guidelines to surpass trans athletes to compete in men’s, women or mixed divisions – prospects that mostly shout at their testosterone levels.
“It closes the door to players who identify as non-binary, and may not want to be categorized as men or women,” Rasika said, the national level swimmer who began playing the Ultimate Frisbee in 2016 when he joined Ashoka University.
“I realize that if this sport must really be a mixture gender, it must recognize the gender outside binary.” The new program to be opened in a few months with Trans players, working with NGO Basera, Aravani and Querbatore art projects.
The coach – also dominant in women and non-binary members – will be placed through a gender sensitization workshop before they start practicing.
“At least the first year, our goal is to use the community and collect interest in the game.
So, they will start by playing recreation, and as long-term goals, can be trained to play competitively,” said Koka Mrinalini Siddhartha, who took care of the operation at PUL ,