Olympic gold medallist Ellia Green has opened up about his gender transition, saying 'life is just too short' and 'it does get better'. He hopes his journey will inspire others to be their authentic self. Read more here:
- that a person's identity and gender assigned at birth can be very different things.
The 29-year-old Green admitted to being in a "dark place" after retiring from rugby at the end of 2021."Pretty much my rugby career ended and I had been in and out of mental health facilities for serious issues. My depression hit a new level of sadness."'Unnecessary risk': Rugby league bans transgender athletes from international women's events
"But the only way to help heal is to talk about it ... I'd like to help someone not feel so isolated by telling my story." "I always used to wear my brother's clothes, played with tools, and ran around with no shirt on. Until I grew breasts, and I thought 'oh no.'" "I spent a lot of time after I finished up my career with Australian rugby just in the house, in a dark room, I didn't have the confidence to see anyone," Green says in the video pre-recorded for the summit.
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