I told my club coach, who doubled as my Sydney representative team manager, “Tell them I’ll see them in court if they try and stop me from playing.”

Although I was never included in the same manner I had been before, within a day sanity prevailed, I was told I had no case to answer and I played on.

Being a caring individual I reached out to Mouncey on several occasions via email and said I’d be happy to help if she needed to go to court?

To my surprise, I was told “thanks, but no thanks” as she decided the legal option was not for her.

At the time I didn’t understand the former Australian handball star’s stance, but on closer examination, I now realise under Australia’s current state and federal laws she was simply protecting herself.

According to Kirsti Miller, a legally transitioned Broken Hill women’s AFL player, the current laws only protect legally recognised transgender people from discrimination and this allows for the AFL to legally discriminate against non-recognised transgender people such as Mouncey in line with the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act of 2010.

Miller, who was also an international modern pentathlon star pre-transition told the Women’s Game due to Mouncey being born in New South Wales and not having undergone Gender Confirmation Surgery, she's a victim of circumstance and has no legal recourse to challenge what the AFL are requiring from her.

“If she’d been born in South Australia or the ACT, she would be able to apply to effect a change of birth certificate as Gender Confirmation surgery is not a prerequisite to amend your birth certificate in these jurisdictions," Miller said.

“In this case, the AFL would not be able to discriminate against her.

“Unfortunately for Mouncey from a legal viewpoint and due to her not being legally recognised Mouncey cannot challenge the ruling and therefore she remains in legal limbo.

The only way this can change for her would be for her to undergo GCS or for NSW to change their legally recognised transgender laws," she said.