The 31-year-old, who is in her rookie year of the sport after retiring from netball at the end of the 2018 Super Netball season, said she had been shocked with the stories of ridicule she had seen and heard from fellow players. 

“I am 100 per cent am shocked about what I have seen so far. And I think that’s why I was probably a bit lighter on it when I came on here for the first time because I hadn’t been exposed to that yet and I was shocked,” Layton said.

“I hadn’t seen the ridicule that some of these female athletes had been getting but now that I’ve seen it with my own eyes and I’m more closer with the ladies and being able to share their stories with me, yeah I am [shocked]. 

"They're doing their job, they are doing what they're amazing at as Tay said when she posted that photo 'this is me at work' and it's pheromonal.

"Far out I wish I could kick like that."