Hannah Mouncey's coach at the Ainslie Football Club in Canberra has dismissed concerns that transgender players are stronger than other women on the field.

Key points: Mouncey was barred from the national AFL-Women's draft last October

Mouncey was barred from the national AFL-Women's draft last October League has now ruled her eligible to play in any state or territory women's league

League has now ruled her eligible to play in any state or territory women's league There is no guarantee she will be allowed to play in AFLW next season

His comments come after the AFL ruled Mouncey was eligible to play in any state or territory women's league.

Mouncey, 28, was barred from the national AFL-Women's draft last October.

And there is still no guarantee that she will be allowed to play in AFLW next season.

Chris Rourke, Mouncey's coach, said he initially questioned how fair it was for her to play on a women's team.

"I thought oh you know it's unfair — but really it's not," he said.

"I'm a coaching dinosaur, I've been around for a long time, so it was all new to me.

"In our case Hannah is a really big person, but she doesn't play a brutal game of footy, she moves quite slowly.

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"Then you realise it's a massive decision, especially in Hannah's case, it's a massive decision to come out as a woman.

"I've learnt a lot and I'm a lot more broadminded about it and realised how hard it is for these girls and people to adjust to becoming transgender."

Rourke went on to offer up some advice to other coaches on dealing with transgender recruits.

"Sit down, chat to her about her background and let her speak and what they go through and how they're feeling.

"It's just not about playing sport, you've really got to know the person and you'll realise they certainly are female.

"If it's more inclusion to everybody then so be it, it might make a better world."

'More than just football'

The league is now encouraging all community Aussie Rules women's competitions to include transgender players.

In the video posted online Mouncey expressed her anger at how she was treated.

She said while she welcomed the AFL's decision, it would be "highly inappropriate" for her to thank them for allowing her to "do something open to every other Australian, which science and research has supported all along".

"Yes this was originally about me playing, but the lack of communication and common decency that was not present for a long time with my dealings with the AFL, and only ended in the last week or so, meant that it very quickly became about far far more than that," she said.

She went on to say that it had become about ensuring that she as a trans person, and any others like her out there, were not treated any differently.

And she hit out at her critics who suggested she changed her gender just to get a go in the women's league.

"To all those people, all I can say is you need to wake up to yourselves," she said.