She has been banned from playing football for asking a transgender opponent: “Are you a man?” She has been discussed and debated on television, online and in parliament. She has become a symbol in the fight against those born male playing in women’s sport. And almost nobody knows who she is.
Until now.
Her name is Cerys Vaughan and she is sitting nervously on a bench in her local park. She is about to break her public silence about her Kafkaesque trial and the extraordinary events that have followed. She has long been afraid to do so – even anonymously – amid the threat of a backlash or of her ban being extended.