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 ...
My cousin Tim Horton is probably rolling over in his grave.
Well, there goes my lunch.............
Silly “woman”.
Everyone knows hockey is a man’s sport....
Thank you. His grandmother taught him to steal. No wonder he’s mentally incompetent.
Are they ever supportive of transgender types?
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