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.
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Any penalties for high-sticking?
They are men. Who pretending they are women. Playing other men. Who are also pretending they are women.
In any sane world - it would be a AAAAAA hockey league for degenerates.
Dammit! Hockey was about the only sport left not ruined by PC. Now these freaks will try to get into the NHL one day.
B-arf
In any sane world—the hockey game would be entertainment inside an insane asylum.
I don’t like wearing a cup either, but that’s taking things too far.
South Park dealt with this subject in a perfect way just this week.
The hockey players who are normies will have their own ways of dealing with trannies.
“In any sane world” - they would be institutionalized on Lithium and Valium IVs, and electro-shock 2-4x/ week.
NY Times is the enemy of your free speech
Men usually do that.
The article keeps referring to this guy as “she”
Is Danielle Allentuck really Daniel?
Nauseating.
The creature in question is an XY male suffering from various delusions and spiritual depravity.
A quality grandmother. Did she dress him up as a girl too?
"Just a fluke."
"He(she) died doing what he/she loved."
So ‘she’ couldn’t make it competing against the boys, so she became a ‘girl’, and now it’s all good. I’d like to see some real woman knock her out of the game. I’ve seen some real women hockey players and they are not to be trifled with. This is not track and field or bike racing. This is a contact sport and some of the real girls might take offense and deal with it in their own way.
I always wanted to be a lumberjack.
Who gives a puck?
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