It's a great day for hockey!

However, the NWHL has done nothing about the Digit Murphy transphobia fiasco and should not be making money off of pride. Don't give them your queer dollars.

It’s supposed to be hard.  If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it.  The hard… is what makes it great.

Literally no one asked you, YCP, but ok

This comes off as condescending as hell to trans fans who were upset by Digit's association with this transhobic group and the league's poor initial response. "In a world that demands immediate answers," asking a league that claims to be so inclusive and progressive to condemn transphobia shouldn't be a big ask of them.

No the league is not a league for all women, at least not yet. As we've unfortunately learned this week, it is not a welcoming space for trans women (at least not on the Six) and some players associate with brstl (big racism and misogyny red flags there) AND the league failed to condemn racist attacks on a black player. It is not the safe and inclusive space they want us to think it is.

This statement makes it seem like digit's transphobia and the league's and six's lack of response was just a misunderstanding. It wasn't. It was another example of blatant transphobia and completely unacceptable.

Fuck off.

Two days after the National Women’s Hockey League suspended its 2021 season in Lake Placid, N.Y., due to a COVID-19 outbreak among participants, the operator of the New York State rink housing the competition put the blame squarely on the league, according to records obtained by Morning Consult, telling its commissioner the NWHL would have to pay a six-figure fee and find another place to finish the season.

In a Feb. 5 letter to NWHL interim Commissioner Tyler Tumminia obtained via a Freedom of Information Law request, New York State State Olympic Regional Development Authority Assistant Counsel Adam Powers said the league “materially breached its obligations to comply with its COVID-19 obligations” under their venue use agreement, and that the violations of the agreement were “solely attributable to the acts and omissions of the NWHL.” 

Powers also demanded in the letter that the league pay the full $225,000 fee specified in the contract despite the event not being completed as planned. The contract called for the NWHL to pay half of that fee as an initial deposit, so the most the league would presumably owe ORDA is $112,500.

The letter didn’t offer specifics about how the league violated the protocols, but media reports throughout the tournament documented several examples of the NWHL not strictly maintaining its so-called bubble environment, including players walking around town instead of remaining confined to their hotel rooms, and teams bringing in outside players after games had already started.

In the contract, the two sides agreed that if a COVID-19 outbreak among participants in the tournament caused the event to end prematurely, they would both “work in good faith to reschedule and hold the event as soon as possible at a mutually agreeable time.” In his termination letter, however, Powers wrote that it was “not practical under the circumstances to provide the NWHL with any further opportunity to remedy its breach” given the risks to the participants, staff members and the local community.

I would walk around town and see girls from every team hanging out and eating at restaurants. I even talked with many of the players on the street to wish them good luck.

cw gender-essentialist language, transphobia