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'I was meant to be a girl, the scans showed that I'd be a girl'

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Flying Wales and Lions winger Louis Rees-Zammit has made a startling admission – that he was meant to be born a girl. The 21-year-old was first capped by his country in October 2020 and has since brought his caps total to 19 after starting in all three matches on last month’s tour to South Africa.

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However, his dream career might never have unfolded in the men’s game if a scan taken before he was born had proven correct. The Gloucester player was born on February 2, 2001, in Penarth, but he wasn’t the delivery that his parents were expecting as they had already prepared for the arrival of a new daughter by choosing a girl’s name and decorating their house in pink.

Rees-Zammit made the revelation in a candid quick-first-question interview published in the latest edition of Rugby World. Asked what is his most embarrassing moment, he answered: “Can it be when I wasn’t born!”

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The Wales wing went on to explain: “It’s not that embarrassing but I was meant to be a girl, the scans showed that I’d be a girl, so when I was born and they realised, my mum started crying.

“My dad was over the moon but mum was fuming. They had called me Georgia and painted my room pink. They had bought girls’ stuff, girly clothes.”

As a follow-up, Rees-Zammit was asked if his parents dressed him up in the girls’ coats. “100 per cent,” he replied. “And I didn’t have a name for two weeks. My dad’s middle name is Luis, although he spelt it wrong on the birth certificate – he is spelt Luis and I’m Louis.”

Some other eye-catching answers in the magazine interview were that Dan Biggar “is actually really funny” and “the nicest man you’d ever meet”, that if he was ever stuck in a lift he would prefer it to be with Cristiano Ronaldo as “he’s my sporting hero”, Manchester United would be his Mastermind subject, and that he could easily eat ten bags of Skips crisps a day if allowed.

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karin 837 days ago

Give his mum and dad an award for producing such a good specimen

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Graeme 838 days ago

I think he'd be outstanding in the women's game 😉

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JW 1 hour ago
'Passionate reunion of France and New Zealand shows Fabien Galthie is wrong to rest his stars'

Where? I remember saying "unders"? The LNR was formed by the FFR, if I said that in a way that meant the 'pro' side of the game didn't have an equal representation/say as the 'amateur' side (FFR remit) that was not my intent.


But also, as it is the governing body, it also has more responsibility. As long as WR looks at FFR as the running body for rugby in France, that 'power' will remain. If the LNR refuses to govern their clubs use of players to enable a request by FFR (from WR) to ensure it's players are able to compete in International rugby takes place they will simply remove their participation. If the players complain to the France's body, either of their health and safety concerns (through playing too many 'minutes' etc) or that they are not allowed to be part in matches of national interest, my understanding is action can be taken against the LNR like it could be any other body/business. I see where you're coming from now re EPCR and the shake up they gave it, yes, that wasn't meant to be a separate statement to say that FFR can threaten them with EPCR expulsion by itself, simply that it would be a strong repercussion for those teams to be removed (no one would want them after the above).


You keep bringing up these other things I cannot understand why. Again, do you think if the LNR were not acting responsibly they would be able to get away with whatever they want (the attitude of these posters saying "they pay the players")? You may deem what theyre doing currently as being irresponsible but most do not. Countries like New Zealand have not even complained about it because they've never had it different, never got things like windfall TV contracts from France, so they can't complain because theyre not missing out on anything. Sure, if the French kept doing things like withholding million dollar game payments, or causing millions of dollars of devaluation in rights, they these things I'm outlining would be taking place. That's not the case currently however, no one here really cares what the French do. It's upto them to sort themselves out if they're not happy. Now, that said, if they did make it obvious to World Rugby that they were never going to send the French side away (like they possibly did stating their intent to exclude 20 targeted players) in July, well then they would simply be given XV fixtures against tier 2 sides during that window and the FFR would need to do things like the 50/50 revenue split to get big teams visiting in Nov.

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