Hannah Mouncey

Hannah Mouncey is a writer and current international handball player who also plays state league Australian rules football. She has an auto-biography titled Valkyrja. In 2017, she was blocked from playing in the AFLW, but returned returned to football with the Darebin Falcons in the VFL, and to the Australian National Handball team, helping the Australian women’s team qualify for the Handball World Championships, but was once again blocked from competing in the sport. Hannah is not actively part of the trans community, but said that “You learn that in being trans, even if you aren’t actively involved in the community, you have a responsibility to, when you’re able to, do what is right to make the lives of those who come after you that little bit easier.”

Writing in the Star Observer, Hannah said “I cannot lie—it would have been terrific to have been able to provide the trans community with a visible symbol of the fact that progress is being made towards greater acceptance, but if society is not at that stage then so be it. That time will come, and it is only because we shine a light on these situations and use our own negative experiences to give others strength, that we will eventually make the progress we as a community wish would happen today.