U.S. Women’s Soccer Stars Support Girl, 8, Banned For ‘Looking Like A Boy’

Share this: Mili Hernandez won’t let others’ poor judgement keep her off the soccer field. Hernandez, an eight-year-old Nebraska girl, and her teammates were disqualified from a soccer tournament Sunday because she “looks like a boy,” her father Gerardo Hernandez told Omaha, Neb., television station WOWT. Hours before Hernandez and the Azzuri Cachorros girls club team were due to compete in the Springfield, Neb., Soccer Club girls tournament, someone complained about a boy on their all-girls U-11 team. A registrar’s error which listed Hernandez as a boy convinced organizers her team had broken the rules, even though her father showed them her health insurance card as proof of her gender. Hernandez now has paid a heavy price for keeping her hair short. “When my hair starts to