Trust me, I would high stick it and slam it against the glass, and stuff it under a Zamboni"
Posted on 11/15/2019 2:34:11 PM PST by karpov
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Brynn Toohey paced alongside the ice at the Simoni Skating Rink, playfully pushing a golf ball back and forth with her stick. “I want to score a bunch of goals,” she said.
From the time she could walk, Toohey, 29, had played hockey. Her grandmother used to steal traffic cones off the street so Toohey could do drills. But after college, she stepped away from the sport, trying to figure out who she was. She drank too much. Publicly, she still lived as a man.
“I was trying to drink it away,” Toohey said. “Oh yeah, I’ll just deal with this later.”
About a year ago, she decided she couldn’t live that way anymore. On New Year’s Eve, she came out for the first time as a transgender woman.
Two months ago, she picked up a hockey stick again, for the first time in seven years.
“If I didn’t have an outlet, the transition would be a little bit too much for me,” she said. “Now I’m dealing with it. I’m having fun. I’m finding my place in the world.”
Toohey is a forward for Team Trans, a group of transgender and nonbinary hockey players. They assembled for the first time last Friday for a practice in Cambridge. Less than 24 hours later they returned to the ice for the first of two games against Boston Pride, an L.G.B.T.Q. hockey team that has been around since the early 1990s.
Team Trans is believed to be the first entirely transgender sports team in the United States. There is at least one other in the world — a transgender men’s soccer team in Brazil.
Trans women, trans men and nonbinary people are all welcome on the team, regardless of where they are in their transition.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Been done already eh?
Off-center will have a whole new meaning...as well as hat trick.
Heck, they were dealing with it probably 15+ years ago. I remember Mr. Garrison becoming Mrs. Garrison - who became a lesbian!
Does it still have its stick or not?
Go to Homo Depot and buy your own cones, idiot. I wonder if anyone was in a wreck thanks to her.
You need a score card to figure out who does what to whom.
Trust me, I would high stick it and slam it against the glass, and stuff it under a Zamboni"
The grandson is certainly a wreck.
<disgust>
Mental illness on display.
ML/NJ
Don't think it's the same team, but there is a Woman's Prof Hockey League team of the same name. I'd like to see Team Fag (er, Trans) play some real female hockey players. That would probably shake up their jock straps!
The majority of these so-called transgenders never have any surgery.
Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!
This is 100% fine with me. Let them play trans league, not women’s league.
To say nothing of stick-handling and crease violations!
Great movie!
Do I have to pay for it?
If not, who cares what they do?
An exclusive team. And they crow about inclusion. Hypocrites.
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