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Referee Sapir Berman observes players during an Israeli Premier League soccer match between Hapoel Haifa and Beitar Jerusalem in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Monday, May 3, 2021. Israeli soccer's first transgender soccer referee took the field Monday for the first time since coming out publicly as a woman last week. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel’s first transgender soccer ref takes field as woman

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Israeli soccer referee Sapir Berman gives a press conference in Ramat Gan, Israel, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Berman has come out as transgender and is living — and enforcing the rules of the game — as a woman. Berman announced Tuesday that she has received the support of her family, the local referees’ union and Israeli and international soccer officials. She said even players and fans have begun to address her as a woman, even if they don’t always like her calls. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli soccer referee comes out as transgender woman

By LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press