 An all @-@ transgender netball team from Indonesia competed at the 1994 Gay Games in New York City . The team had been the Indonesian national champions . At the 2000 Gay Games VI in Sydney , netball and volleyball were the two sports with the highest rates of transgender athletes participating . There were eight teams of indigenous players , with seven identifying as transgender . They came from places like Palm Island in northern Queensland , Samoa , Tonga and Papua New Guinea . Teams with transgender players were allowed to participate in several divisions including men 's , mixed and transgender ; they were not allowed to compete against the cisgender women 's teams . 
