Omaira-Perdomo
The Spanish Antía Fernández started the avalanche by making her debut for the „B“ squad of the club Padre Faustino/Calasancias de La Coruña, in January 2016, to become the first-ever transgender athlete to compete in any Olympic sports discipline and, of course, the first-ever transgender volleyball player competing professionally in the world.
Then, there was the Brazilian Tifanny Abreu, who became the first-ever volleyball player to compete both in Men’s and Women’s competition when she made her debut for an Italian Division 2 side Software Golem Palmi in February this year.
Her compatriot Isabelle Neris entered the history of the Brazilian volleyball as the first-ever transgender player in this sport in the country.
Now, as Spanish media reported, an 18-year-old Omaira ’Omy’ Perdomo established herself as the second transsexual player in the history of the country’s professional volleyball, next to the first-mentioned Antía Fernández. She made her debut in the low ranked Liga Canaria, last night, wearing the jersey of CV CC 7 Palmas Gran Canaria (the youth squad of the Superliga side of the same name)
„I’m so used to having to wait for what I really wished, and I was wearing it quite calmly. I really didn’t imagine that this process would end as fast as it has ended up. I have received the support of many people and was morally reinforced by all of them,“ the middle blocker Perdomo stated upon making her professional volleyball debut.
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