Australian Hannah Mouncey, 26, aims to become the first Olympian to play for both a men's and women's national team. From: NewNowNext In November, Hannah Mouncey found herself at the elite level of handball players, representing her native Australia at a tournament in Qatar with a hope of making it to Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympics. But Mouncey, 26, was also secretly battling crippling gender dysphoria and accompanying depression—in a hypermasculine environment in a strange country with no support network. As she explains in a first-person essay on Outsports , the stress took its toll and she acted out—and was disciplined for swearing at teammates during matches and kicking water bottles on the court. “That my gender issues were at the root of that behavior is something I’ve never discussed with [my teammates], but I’m sure they figured it out,” she writes. “They’ve supported me all the way. This speaks volumes for the culture within Australian handball.” Mouncey, who has ...