A female-to-male transgender hockey player was left concussed at a tournament last month after a male-to-female rival delivered a bruising hit during the game.
Danny Maki was left concussed following an accidental rough hit at the Team Trans Ice Hockey draft in Middleton, Wisconsin. He was carried off the ice on a stretcher and transported to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion, according to the Daily Mail.
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Maki later described the hit as an “odd fall” in a subsequent Instagram post to let people know he was OK.
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“I was playing the puck, and I took a very odd fall into the boards,” he wrote, adding that he experienced some muscle strains and a concussion but did not mention the direct hit.
Maki’s teammate, Mason LeFebvre, who was the goalie for the team, was visibly shaken by the hit and collapsed on the ground in tears.
Maki, who was born female, was playing for Team Black in the finals when the hit occurred. Maki’s opponent has only been identified by her jersey number 90 so far and the fact she wore a pink jersey, as part of Team Pink.
Team Black was composed of only two transgender women, giving them a clear disadvantage in size over the almost entirely female transgendered team, Team Pink, which won. The tournament, which was made up completely of transgender and nonbinary players, received attention for being the first of its kind and was endorsed and supported by the National Hockey League.
“There [was] just an enormous difference in size between the two teams — height, weight, shoulder width, muscles — the differences were plain to even a child,” an audience member told Quillette reporter Jonathan Kay. “I don’t know how the teams were made, but any [fan] could see that this couldn’t possibly be fair, and that someone could get hurt — and someone did.”
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Despite coverage of the tournament hailing the two-day event as “groundbreaking,” the NHL, Hockey News Magazine, and Vice news, which sent a news crew to the tournament, have failed to mention the concussion. They also did not mention Team Pink’s victory.
The trans event was the latest incident in a discussion on the role of transgendered athletes competing on teams with the gender they identify with, rather than their biological ones. The debate has largely surrounded transgender female athletes competing against biological women when they have a size and strength advantage, despite going through hormone therapy. An example of this was University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who dominated the collegiate sport and set new records for women despite being born male.
