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USA Hockey alters eligibility policy, draws ire of first openly trans player

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USA Hockey’s new policy that preserves sex-based categories has drawn the ire of the first openly trans-identifying professional hockey player, who claims it's “transphobic” to claim women face unfair competition or physical risks when forced to accommodate athletes based on their gender identity.

Harrison Browne, who participated in the National Women’s Hockey League from 2015 to 2018 before undergoing interventions to present herself as male, published an Instagram post on Friday, claiming that USA Hockey has “quietly barred trans people from participating in hockey safely. Myself included.”

“I was upset and wanted to do more research and realized that this policy also bars myself and other transmen from playing on women’s beer league teams if we’ve undergone hormone therapy,” Browne stated.

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