Fatimah Hussein was born in Somalia and immigrated to Minneapolis when she was 6 with her family, fleeing civil war. Ms. Hussein and her sister played softball when they were young, but in middle school they stopped, as did many of their Muslim peers. “It was not normal to see girls playing sports,” she said of her childhood.
“You'd see boys continuing to play and getting support by the parents,” said Ms. Hussein, now 29 and a social worker. “It's not that my dad ever said, ‘You can't play,' but we just never got that encouragement.”
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