At a information convention final Tuesday wherein she publicly introduced her transition, Berman, at 26 already a prime referee in Israel’s main soccer league, mentioned she had at all times seen herself as a feminine, even at a younger age.
She instructed reporters that gamers had already begun utilizing the female type of phrases in Hebrew when addressing her.
“They really feel that they want to somehow take part in this process and even speak to men when it’s not necessary and speak to me as a woman. So thank you,” Berman mentioned.
Outside the stadium within the northern metropolis of Haifa, one fan carried a banner that hailed Berman as a “super woman, incredible, brave”.
Berman shouldn’t be the primary transgender referee within the soccer world. A British soccer referee, Lucy Clark, got here out as transgender in 2018.
