{"id":117924,"date":"2025-03-07T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/americanstudies-march-7-2025-hockey-histories-team-trans\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:12:19","slug":"americanstudies-march-7-2025-hockey-histories-team-trans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=117924","title":{"rendered":"AmericanStudies: March 7, 2025: Hockey Histories: Team Trans"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

[On March 3rd<\/sup>,
\n1875<\/a>, the first organized ice hockey game was played. So this week for
\nthe sport\u2019s 150th<\/sup> anniversary I\u2019ll AmericanStudy a handful of hockey
\nhistories, leading up to a weekend post on some SportsStudiers we can all learn
\nfrom!]<\/p>\n

On two complicated
\nand equally important ways to contextualize a groundbreaking hockey team.<\/span><\/p>\n

In early
\n2019, following a game in New York City between the Boston Pride Hockey and New
\nYork City Gay Hockey Association teams, New York team member Aidan Cleary and
\nBoston team president Greg Sargent began conversations that led to the creation
\nof the Boston-based Team
\nTrans<\/a>, the first all-transgender hockey team in the U.S. After recruiting
\nplayers from around the country, including both the first openly transgender athlete
\nin any professional U.S. team sport (National Women\u2019s Hockey League player Harrison
\nBrowne<\/a>) and the first in Canadian professional sports (Canadian Women\u2019s
\nHockey League player Jessica
\nPlatt<\/a>), Team Trans began practicing in Cambridge,
\nMA in November 2019<\/a>. Not long after they began playing games in both the
\nBoston area and as a barnstorming team; the Covid pandemic delayed those efforts
\nfor a time, but in subsequent years the team has both resumed its games and
\nspawned a second chapter, Team Trans Twin
\nCities<\/a> based out of Minneapolis. <\/span><\/p>\n

I want to
\nbe clear that nothing I\u2019ll say in these next two paragraphs minimizes the
\nimportance of nor the inspiration from Team Trans. But there are both
\nhistorical and contemporary contexts for the team, and they each offer
\ncomplicated lenses through which to AmericanStudy them. On the historical side,
\nto anyone with a knowledge of American sports histories (and doubly so to an
\nAmericanStudier who just spent a
\nwhole podcast<\/a> thinking about baseball histories) the idea of a barnstorming
\nteam based around a particular identity community has to echo what many of the Negro
\nLeagues teams<\/a> and players
\ndid<\/a> across the first half of the 20th<\/sup> century. I made the case
\nin that podcast for the social and cultural as well as sports significance of
\nbarnstorming, and Team Trans can likewise both reflect local roots and help
\nconnect them to communities across the country and beyond. But at the same
\ntime, there\u2019s no doubt that at least a good percentage of those barnstorming Negro
\nLeaguers would have wanted to play in the major leagues if that had been
\npossible (and would have infinitely improved those major leagues in the process);
\nand while professional hockey isn\u2019t overtly segregated in the way that
\nprofessional baseball was, this current barnstorming team does reflect similar
\nexclusions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, there\u2019s
\na very specific form of current sports exclusions that we can\u2019t separate from
\nTeam Trans (even though it was formed years before this incredibly frustrating
\ntrend truly began): attempts to keep
\ntransgender athletes out<\/a> of organized sports. That exclusionary effort dominated
\nthe recent election season<\/a> to a ridiculous degree, and produced one of the
\nlast year\u2019s most
\nnonsensical sports stories<\/a>: the stream of college volleyball teams refusing
\nto play against San Jose State because of the presence of an allegedly trans athlete,
\ndespite that athlete having been on the team for multiple prior years with no
\nissues nor forfeits. My number one goal for any athlete and any sport is that
\nthe individuals have the chance to play in whatever ways work for them, and
\nagain, I\u2019m not trying to dismiss the importance nor the inspiration of Team
\nTrans. But I do worry a bit that transgender athletes self-segregating in this
\nway will only further the idea that, especially when there isn\u2019t the
\npossibility for entire teams, individual trans athletes shouldn\u2019t be part of
\noverarching, organized teams and sports. <\/span><\/p>\n

Special
\npost this weekend,<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben<\/span><\/p>\n

PS. What
\ndo you think? Hockey histories you\u2019d highlight? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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