Kerstin Casparij joined Manchester City in 2022 from FC Twente
Manchester City defender Kerstin Casparij always knew she "fancied girls".
But when she grew up in a small town in the north of the Netherlands, Heerenveen, she didn't know "being gay was even an option".
It wasn't until she became a first-team player at Heerenveen at the age of 15 that she came across the LGBTQ+ community.
"Being gay or queer wasn't something that was necessarily 'normal'. I didn't know anyone who was," she told BBC Sport.
