Female African Soccer Star Forced To Strip Naked To Prove She Is Female

Last year, Equatorial Guinea star and one of
Africa’s leading footballers, Genoveva
Anonma made headlines when she called for
the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations to be
cancelled to avoid spreading the Ebola virus
to her home country. Now the former African
women’s “Footballer of the Year” has opened
up to the BBC about the embarrassing
treatment she received from African football
authorities when they asked her to strip
down naked and prove she was a woman.
Rival teams had questioned Genoveva
Anonma’s gender but instead of instigating
proper medical gender tests, they simply
forced her to strip naked straight after
Equatorial Guinea won the Africa Cup of
Nations.

BBC Sportshour's Sam Sheringham spoke to
Genoveva about that harrowing event, and
she said:
“I don’t know how they usually do it, but they
kept accusing me. Because I’m quite energetic
and very strong they say it was impossible
that I could be a woman. I don’t know what I
did to make them think I’m a man. They
didn’t do any hospital tests. I was hoping they
would call me to tell me they were taking me
to a hospital to do tests – but they never did.
I’ve never had a single apology”