Team Trans was undefeated, recording (in the first game of the weekend) the first win, shutout, and hat trick in team history. Organized by Mason LeFebvre and Avery Cordingley, the weekend included three Team Trans teams and six total games (three each day) against the Madison Gay Hockey Association (MGHA). Madison, Wisconsin (2021) Īfter awaiting the chance to enter LGBTQ hockey tournaments since the start of the pandemic, they reunited on the ice in Middleton, WI over the weekend of November 20–21, 2021.
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The team was also scheduled to play in a second Friendship Series with the Madison Gay Hockey Association in April 2020, though these plans were postponed in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The team holds a tentative plan to enter LGBTQ hockey tournaments around North America, and encourage trans players anywhere to join, in essence functioning as a barnstorming team with a rotating roster. Family, friends, fans of Browne and Platt and a scattering of local residents." The team's players positively received their first games, taking to social media to commemorate them. The crowd was modest, several dozen people in all. The New York Times published a piece on the team and their first games, detailing "the games were held in a public rink tucked into a strip mall. Team Trans lost both the first and second game, 4–3 and 8–3, respectively. Held in the Simoni Ice Arena in Cambridge, the match was the first in a 2-game series-dubbed the "Friendship Series"-between the two teams. They held one practice, and team played their first match against the BPH Select team the following day. The team received jerseys and matching socks that were in the colors of the transgender flag (pink, white, and blue) the Boston Pride Hockey organization paid for the team's uniforms. The team is considered to be the first sports team in the United States fully made up of transgender or gender nonconforming players an all-transgender soccer team in Brazil preceded Team Trans' existence. The team met for the first time on November 8, 2019, in Cambridge, Massachusetts 13 of the team's initial members traveled from outside of the area to meet. Harrison Browne skates in the 2019 Friendship Series in Boston, MA Many of the Team Trans players have cited "overly masculine attitudes" of male teams, as well as loneliness on teams, even LGBTQ ones as reasons for joining the team and finding their playing experience an enjoyable one.
northeast, although there were some from the Midwest, Canada, as well as California. Soon, players began connecting through social media, and the team was able to recruit Browne and Platt onto the team.
Cleary then contacted Boston Pride Hockey Vice President Mark Tikonoff about recruiting an all-trans team. Cleary had been in discussion with Hutch Hutchinson, a defender on Team Trans, about how they wanted to create a space for transgender athletes. Cleary conveyed to Sargent about a Facebook group that he belonged to which had "all the trans hockey players," trying to put together their own team. The Pride players went out for drinks following the game and the team's president, Greg Sargent, noticed Aidan Cleary, a New York team member, sitting alone in a corner. įollowing an early 2019 Boston Pride Hockey game with the New York City Gay Hockey Association, plans for the team's founding took shape at a bar in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
In 2018, while playing in the Canadian Women's Hockey League, Jessica Platt would also come out as transgender.
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In 2016, while playing in the National Women's Hockey League, Harrison Browne became what many publications thought to be the first openly transgender athlete in any professional U.S. History Background and establishment (2016–2019)