Posted on 11/22/2021 10:31:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Two years after 16 hockey players joined forces in Boston to become the first entirely transgender sports team in the United States, Team Trans — a growing group of novice to advanced players — reunited this past weekend at Capitol Ice Arena in Middleton, Wisconsin, to take on the Madison Gay Hockey Association in a weekend friendship series.
When the inaugural Team Trans first stepped off the ice and into the locker room two years ago, the players said they could tell that something was different. While many of them had played in LGBTQ leagues, they were often the only trans player on their team and struggled to find a community of trans athletes to talk to. But for one weekend, these players were all able to bond over a shared love for the sport and a mutual understanding of their personal struggles with gender identity.
“I keep meeting people that I’ve barely spoken to or haven’t spoken to directly, and I feel like I already know them in a way, just because of the shared experiences that we’ve had in hockey spaces,” Mason LeFebvre, a Team Trans goaltender and out trans man, told NBC News. “It’s just casual and comfortable from the start. We’re not going to ask each other a bunch of awkward questions that other people might ask if they know we’re trans. Then, we talk about other things that would be completely off the table for conversations with mostly cis[gender] people.”
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Is the team nickname the “Swinging Dicks” or have they already removed that option....????
I watched Letterkenny. Funny show for the most part, but did for smut/vulgarity the what Deadwood did for the F-word. Way too much. The thing is, after getting beat, the women conceded they were not as good as the men’s team.
Team Trans? Couldn’t they have been more clever? Like the “Butt Pucks”?
Even Michael Mann would call those fake hockey sticks. LOL
“Hanrahan! Your wife’s a dyke!”
Probably similar penalty to hooking.
I guess UnsportsMAN conduct now will be called unsportsIT conduct??
“He’s in the crease!!!”
I played enough hockey in High School and University to know that when biological men take the ice with biological women, someone is going to get badly hurt. It is a sad but inevitable consequence that someone is going to have to get killed on the ice or other playing field for this nonsense to end.
“Which ones get to wear a cup - that’s what I want to know...”
I don’t want to know why you would want to know!
Oh goody....a friendship series based on sex.....aka....recruitment.
Because they don’t have balls in hockey.
I’m actually fine with this. They want to have their own leagues and and teams and bathrooms and dressing rooms - no problem.
I just don’t want them pretending they’re girls or boys and insisting that that’s what they are, when whats between their legs (and in their chromosomes) say otherwise.
“they could tell something was different”
There’s a joke in there somewhere.
Any cat fights on ice?
WOW....Wisconsin is going down hill in many ways!
But they can’t decide to play in the mens or womens league.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I bet it was a laugh riot.
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