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everyone at school would watch the boys play basketball while nobody supported the sports that us girls played, including Julia (my twin) and me practising taekwondo where we literally kicked ass (FYI Julia earned her black belt and became a pro ninja while I tapped out at green belt – we can’t all be ninjas!). I was annoyed!

Initially I thought that I was annoyed at being a girl. But I wasn’t.

I wAs cOnFuSeD bY tHe

wAyS In whIcH gIrLs aRe

tReAtEd, aNd tHaT bOyS

wErE tReAtEd dIffeReNtly.

Basically I was angry at sexism. That’s when I knew I had to change something. I knew I wanted to help tackle the institutional problem of sexism.

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