00:00My name is Maria Jose Arango Rico and I practice Judo.
00:02Judo is a Japanese martial art that translates to the flexibility of Camilo.
00:07When I was in college, I think it was the time where I most suffered discrimination or bullying.
00:15During my adolescence, around 11 to 15 years old, I also played football.
00:20I facilitated sports in the college.
00:22But my vision began to change from sports.
00:26I began to lift weights at 12 years old.
00:29And my gesticulation also began to change.
00:32Because sport is a sport rudo.
00:34So I was not the typical female woman that was delicate, but I was quite ruda.
00:41And many boys or boys would say, marimacha, machorra, you are a child.
00:48And sport helped me a lot to raise my autoestima.
00:51Because, even though they criticize me for my physical, my physical has given me the opportunity to meet many countries.
00:58So, it was my response.
00:59Like, yes, I'm a marimacha.
01:00But I've traveled all over the world, thanks to being marimacha.
01:04My body, for me, means resilience.
01:07As esferas del deporte son gigantes, tanto económicas, como la unión social, como los valores que le da el deporte
01:16a un ser humano.
01:17Y los beneficios físicos que le da el deporte a un ser humano.
01:20Y que la sociedad encasille todos estos beneficios del deporte en un solo género.
01:27in this reality that they encasillan in the male gender,
01:30because, according to the prejudices, they are the strongest.
01:34They limit that human beings, not only women,
01:37but also the LGBT community, all human beings,
01:41have the possibility to build thanks to the sport.
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