Cleary then contacted Boston Pride Hockey Vice President Mark Tikonoff about recruiting an all-trans team. Cleary had been in discussion with Hutch Hutchinson, a defender on Team Trans, about how they wanted to create a space for transgender athletes. Cleary conveyed to Sargent about a Facebook group that he belonged to which had 'all the trans hockey players,' trying to put together their own team. The Pride players went out for drinks following the game and the team's president, Greg Sargent, noticed Aidan Cleary, a New York team member, sitting alone in a corner. įollowing an early 2019 Boston Pride Hockey game with the New York City Gay Hockey Association, plans for the team's founding took shape at a bar in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
In 2018, while playing in the Canadian Women's Hockey League, Jessica Platt would also come out as transgender. In 2016, while playing in the National Women's Hockey League, Harrison Browne became what many publications thought to be the first openly transgender athlete in any professional U.S. History Background and establishment (2016–2019)
