She Guevara is the alter ego of Samantha “Sammy” Walker. A British left-wing social commentator, comic, writer, content producer, inclusivity activist, entrepreneur and ex-footballer.
An “insufferable leftie millenial” and avid tory-basher,
She is particularly interested in making the world a better, happier place for everyone – in her own unique way.
She is known for her candid approach to sharing her personal experiences, cutting responses to critics and eagerness to punch upwards; and has amassed thousands of followers on social media with her unique brand of blunt unapologetic queerness, witty authenticity and shit puns.
That being said,
She was technically born off the back of an online presence. In real life: Sammy was actually born and raised (mostly) in Buckinghamshire, England.
Partially educated at the prestigious Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School before her expulsion, Sammy always had a keen interest in sports, writing, social change and, often to her detriment, trying to make people laugh.
A keen footballer, she has played at the highest available level to her at the time since childhood, playing for the likes of Watford FC, Wycombe Wanderers and Northampton at youth level, in the British LGBT inclusive league, and very nearly in the FA Women’s National League. The latter of these could have seen her play professionally, which in turn caused her to become the target of substantial abuse when it emerged that a high-level women’s club wanted to sign her.
Approaching the twilight of her potential career, and with persistent knee injuries and a fading desire to play in the face of targeted attacks and discrimination – she decided to hang up her boots once more. All of which culminated to thrust her, somewhat inadvertantly, into LGBTQ+ inclusivity, and wider human rights activism.
First coming to prominence in the late 2010s when, in an attempt to highlight the lack of inclusivity in sport for LGBTQ+ individuals, she appeared in a series of media pieces about her journey in football as a trans woman – from being tipped to go pro as a teen pre-transition, to quitting the game she loved because she couldnt see a future for someone like her in it, and finding welcoming spaces to play post-transition.
Since then, She has made a number of contributions toward social change for a huge range of organisations on a variety of topics, including her childhood football team, West Ham United FC. In the process she has been featured in a variety of formats by the likes of Sky Sports, GOAL, TalkSport, BBC, ITV and OutSports & Pink News.
In 2019, she started to be approached to work professionally with businesses, diversity & inclusion charities, and training providers, using her lived experience to educate and train on inclusive best practice at all levels.
In the same year, she started a blog about dating as a trans woman, which has amassed ~50,000 hits, and later wrote for proud.ly about her coming out experiences; which became the sites most read story within 24 hours, and remains the sites most viewed story to this day.
In 2021, she returned to football in a charity match for Rainbow Rovers, a team comprised of ex-pro’s and LGBTQ sporting celebrities, and later captained the worlds first ever team made of solely trans people, TRUK FC, in a controversial but uneventful friendly against Dulwich Hamlet Women FC. The historic game was covered on Peter Crouch’s “Save Our Beautiful Game” on the Discovery Channel.
Over the years, she has become an expert on the practical implementation of inclusive practice in sport and a respected voice from the trans community on a variety of subjects.
She has been a feature in special kit launches, for Stonewall and TRUK, and Her image appears on a special kit designed for London inclusive women’s and non-binary football side Goaldiggers FC, to commemorate the ban on women’s football, and celebrate the women who challenged the status quo in football – a copy of which resides in the National Football Museum.
In 2022, after a period of bad mental health, frustrated by the lack of adequate transitional healthcare available to trans people in the UK, and seeking to ease her intense dysphoria – she decided to ‘break bad’ and step back from her respectable endeavours. She announced she would be pursuing a career in adult entertainment to fund her medical transition. She continues in the industry under the alias Sammy Seven, in addition to a wide variety of consulting, content creation and not-for-profit projects.
Currently residing near Glasgow, Scotland – Sammy has 3 children who she loves immensely. She is a committed socialist and member of the
Breakthrough Party. In her spare time she enjoys painting warhammer models, playing guitar, and the great outdoors.
So yeah… that is who
She is.
