NWHL’s Harrison Browne is first transgender athlete in pro team sports

[99steak]

This is crazy....all the shitty players can claim they are trans gender and play in woman's hockey and overpower all the real ladies! This sickness has to stop. I cannot believe that we accept this in our society instead of giving them psychiatric help.

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[FONT=&quot]Hailey Browne, a forward for the Buffalo Beauts of the National Women’s Hockey League, has publicly announced he is transgender, becoming the first athlete in professional team sports to do so as an active player.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Browne, who identifies as male, is now listed as Harrison Browne on the NWHL website. According to an NWHL official, he has informed the League that he won’t undergo gender reassignment surgery until after retiring as a pro hockey player. He will also not take any testosterone supplements while playing because it violates performance-enhancing drug policies for the League.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“I identify as a man,” Browne said in an interview with ESPNW’s Michele Steele. “My family is starting to come to grips with it, now it’s my time to be known as who I am, to be authentic and to hear my name said right when I get a point, or see my name on a website.”[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Browne told Yahoo Sports that his teammates at the University of Maine and in the NWHL have referred to him as “Harrison” during his playing career.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Browne, a 23-year-old native of Oakville, Ontario, played one season for Mercyhurst University before moving over to the University of Maine, playing three seasons with the Black Bears. Brown played on the Canada 2011 IIHF World Women’s Under-18 team, winning a silver medal.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“At the end of the day, Harrison is the same player he was last year,” NWHL Commissioner Dani Rylan told ESPNW. “We’re here to support him. It’s really not a big deal when you look at it, we’re respecting his name, the pronouns and his request to be his authentic self.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the NWHL’s inaugural season of 2015-16, Browne had five goals and seven assists in 18 regular-season games, and four points in five playoff games.[/FONT]
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</figure>[FONT=&quot]Browne’s revelation follows several other landmark moments for transgender athletes in recent years.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In March 2013, Fallon Fox became the first transgender female athlete to compete in MMA – at least “on the record,” as Sports Illustrated put it. Fox had gender reassignment surgery beginning in 2006.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In 2015, Chris Mosier became the first athlete to qualify for a national team different from his gender assigned at birth. The triathlete had previously competed as a woman before starting his transition in 2010. Mosier posed in the ESPN Body Issue in 2016.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The NWHL is the first women’s professional sports league to partner with You Can Play, an advocacy organization for LGBT athletes.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“The NWHL is committed to promoting LGBT equality and the respect of all of our athletes, fans, coaches, and staff. Alongside the NHL, AHL, and CWHL, the hockey community can proudly say we are the most inclusive professional sport in the world,” NWHL Commissioner Dani Rylan said.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Additional reporting by Jen Neale/Yahoo Sports[/FONT]

 

[Mr_Mark]

I am shocked there is a womens hockey #%()

 

[michael777]

who do you think he/she is voting for?

 

[CHOPTALK]

That's not the first .
Britney Grinner of the WNBA .
Hes the the Jackie Robinson of the transgender movement

 

[99steak]

How are we allowing this. Do they people have no say. We should take a vote on this. I personally think that all the transgender people have mental problem and them should be handled with psychiatrists and counselling....not giving them rights.

 

[he_dblhockeystx]

I'm confused..it's a girl becoming a guy ? Or a guy becoming a girl

 

[NBAcapper08]

I've got some man boobs going for me at the moment. thinking about an open try out for wnba this winter

 

[festeringZit]

[ Common sense tells us these people are whacked in the head and need psychological help. Liberalism (which is a mental disorder of it's own) tells us otherwise
But yes, liberalism is destroying this once great country. ]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120
[h=1]Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution[/h] [h=2]A drastic physical change doesn't address underlying psycho-social troubles.[/h] By Paul McHugh

<time class="timestamp"> Updated May 13, 2016 2:18 p.m. ET </time> 671 COMMENTS

Editors’ note: This op-ed was originally published on June 12, 2014.
The government and media alliance advancing the transgender cause has gone into overdrive in recent weeks. On May 30, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services review board ruled that Medicare can pay for the "reassignment" surgery sought by the transgendered—those who say that they don't identify with their biological sex. Earlier last month Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that he was "open" to lifting a ban on transgender individuals serving in the military. Time magazine, seeing the trend, ran a cover story for its June 9 issue called "The Transgender Tipping Point: America's next civil rights frontier."
Yet policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention. This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken—it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.

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The transgendered suffer a disorder of "assumption" like those in other disorders familiar to psychiatrists. With the transgendered, the disordered assumption is that the individual differs from what seems given in nature—namely one's maleness or femaleness. Other kinds of disordered assumptions are held by those who suffer from anorexia and bulimia nervosa, where the assumption that departs from physical reality is the belief by the dangerously thin that they are overweight.
With body dysmorphic disorder, an often socially crippling condition, the individual is consumed by the assumption "I'm ugly." These disorders occur in subjects who have come to believe that some of their psycho-social conflicts or problems will be resolved if they can change the way that they appear to others. Such ideas work like ruling passions in their subjects' minds and tend to be accompanied by a solipsistic argument.
For the transgendered, this argument holds that one's feeling of "gender" is a conscious, subjective sense that, being in one's mind, cannot be questioned by others. The individual often seeks not just society's tolerance of this "personal truth" but affirmation of it. Here rests the support for "transgender equality," the demands for government payment for medical and surgical treatments, and for access to all sex-based public roles and privileges.
With this argument, advocates for the transgendered have persuaded several states—including California, New Jersey and Massachusetts—to pass laws barring psychiatrists, even with parental permission, from striving to restore natural gender feelings to a transgender minor. That government can intrude into parents' rights to seek help in guiding their children indicates how powerful these advocates have become.
How to respond? Psychiatrists obviously must challenge the solipsistic concept that what is in the mind cannot be questioned. Disorders of consciousness, after all, represent psychiatry's domain; declaring them off-limits would eliminate the field. Many will recall how, in the 1990s, an accusation of parental sex abuse of children was deemed unquestionable by the solipsists of the "recovered memory" craze.
You won't hear it from those championing transgender equality, but controlled and follow-up studies reveal fundamental problems with this movement. When children who reported transgender feelings were tracked without medical or surgical treatment at both Vanderbilt University and London's Portman Clinic, 70%-80% of them spontaneously lost those feelings. Some 25% did have persisting feelings; what differentiates those individuals remains to be discerned.
We at Johns Hopkins University—which in the 1960s was the first American medical center to venture into "sex-reassignment surgery"—launched a study in the 1970s comparing the outcomes of transgendered people who had the surgery with the outcomes of those who did not. Most of the surgically treated patients described themselves as "satisfied" by the results, but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn't have the surgery. And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a "satisfied" but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs.
It now appears that our long-ago decision was a wise one. A 2011 study at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden produced the most illuminating results yet regarding the transgendered, evidence that should give advocates pause. The long-term study—up to 30 years—followed 324 people who had sex-reassignment surgery. The study revealed that beginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nontransgender population. This disturbing result has as yet no explanation but probably reflects the growing sense of isolation reported by the aging transgendered after surgery. The high suicide rate certainly challenges the surgery prescription.
There are subgroups of the transgendered, and for none does "reassignment" seem apt. One group includes male prisoners like Pvt. Bradley Manning, the convicted national-security leaker who now wishes to be called Chelsea. Facing long sentences and the rigors of a men's prison, they have an obvious motive for wanting to change their sex and hence their prison. Given that they committed their crimes as males, they should be punished as such; after serving their time, they will be free to reconsider their gender.
Another subgroup consists of young men and women susceptible to suggestion from "everything is normal" sex education, amplified by Internet chat groups. These are the transgender subjects most like anorexia nervosa patients: They become persuaded that seeking a drastic physical change will banish their psycho-social problems. "Diversity" counselors in their schools, rather like cult leaders, may encourage these young people to distance themselves from their families and offer advice on rebutting arguments against having transgender surgery. Treatments here must begin with removing the young person from the suggestive environment and offering a counter-message in family therapy.
Then there is the subgroup of very young, often prepubescent children who notice distinct sex roles in the culture and, exploring how they fit in, begin imitating the opposite sex. Misguided doctors at medical centers including Boston's Children's Hospital have begun trying to treat this behavior by administering puberty-delaying hormones to render later sex-change surgeries less onerous—even though the drugs stunt the children's growth and risk causing sterility. Given that close to 80% of such children would abandon their confusion and grow naturally into adult life if untreated, these medical interventions come close to child abuse. A better way to help these children: with devoted parenting.
At the heart of the problem is confusion over the nature of the transgendered. "Sex change" is biologically impossible. People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.

Dr. McHugh, former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is the author of "Try to Remember: Psychiatry's Clash Over Meaning, Memory, and Mind" (Dana Press, 2008).

 

[SheriffJoe]

How are we allowing this. Do they people have no say. We should take a vote on this. I personally think that all the transgender people have mental problem and them should be handled with psychiatrists and counselling....not giving them rights.

Well, yeah...but that horse left the barn years ago.