'Discrimination of any sort is not welcome' DeSantis admin calls out NHL over event eligibility requirements



The National Hockey League posted an event advertisement that indicates an event is only open to certain groups of people, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is calling on the NHL to drop and decry the discriminatory eligibility requirements.

The NHL posted about its "Pathway to Hockey Summit," describing it as "a career event for diverse job seekers" and noting, "Participants must be 18 years of age or older, based in the U.S., and identify as female, Black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and/or a person with a disability. Veterans are also welcome and encouraged to attend."

The event is slated to occur in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on February 2.

DeSantis press secretary Bryan Griffin issued a statement calling for the NHL to delete and condemn the discriminatory participation requirements.

"Discrimination of any sort is not welcome in the state of Florida, and we do not abide by the woke notion that discrimination should be overlooked if applied in a politically popular manner or against a politically unpopular demographic. We are fighting all discrimination in our schools and our workplaces, and we will fight it in publicly accessible places of meeting or activity. We call upon the National Hockey League to immediately remove and denounce the discriminatory prohibitions it has imposed on attendance to the 2023 'Pathway to Hockey' summit," Griffin said in the statement.

The NHL displayed its ultra-wokeness last year when it made the absurd claims that "trans women are women. Trans men are men. Nonbinary identity is real." In point of fact, transgender women are biological men masquerading as women, while transgender men are biological women masquerading as men.

The NHL made the biology-denying remarks in response to someone who had commented on a post about the NHL's support of a tournament made up of transgender and nonbinary players.

"The NHL is proud to support this past weekend's Team Trans Draft Tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin. This was the first tournament comprised entirely of transgender and nonbinary players, with around 80 folks participating! #HockeyIsForEveryone #NHLPride," the NHL had tweeted .

\u201cThe NHL is proud to support this past weekend's Team Trans Draft Tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin. This was the first tournament comprised entirely of transgender and nonbinary players, with around 80 folks participating! #HockeyIsForEveryone #NHLPride\u201d
— NHL (@NHL) 1669129506

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Transgender hockey tournament promoted by NHL results in biologically male player concussing female player



The National Hockey League openly promoted the "Team Trans Draft Tournament," which saw a biologically female player concussed by a biological male. The format led to a massive advantage for one team, with one attendee citing an "enormous difference" in player size, according to the Post Millennial.

The tournament featuring a "Team Black" vs. "Team Pink" game included the Boston-based "Team Trans" organization, which describes itself as "New England’s first LGBTQ+ hockey club."

A video posted by Quillette shows player #90 on Team Pink, described as a "bisexual trans woman" (biological man) shoving #91 on Team Black, who describes themselves as female-to-male (biological woman). The female player takes what appears to be a light bump onto the ice and then the boards, resulting in a concussion.

The stark difference in size accounts for the biologically male player absorbing little to no impact from the collision. Additionally, the contact would be illegal in most hockey leagues as a "hit from behind," although the tournament did likely host a "no contact" event.

The injured player later commented on Twitter that she had an "amazing time" with a fellow player named Mason "(he/him/his)."

A rinkside attendee described the scene as displaying "an enormous difference in size between the two teams—height, weight, shoulder width, muscles—the differences were plain to even a child,” the source told Quillette, commenting that anyone "could see that this couldn’t possibly be fair, and that someone could get hurt—and someone did."

A number of players were easily identified as large enough to stand out from the rest of the players on the ice. Four biologically male players on Team Pink were described as "head and shoulders taller than most of Team Black," including at least one player who allegedly played in Division I hockey.

Team Pink went on to beat Team Black in the tournament final by a score of 7-1, despite holding a team meeting in the second period to decide whether or not to continue the lopsided game.

The NHL's Twitter account promoted the event that took place November 19-20, 2022, in Middleton, Wisconsin, which was comprised of entirely transgender-identifying individuals.

"The NHL is proud to support this past weekend's Team Trans Draft Tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin. This was the first tournament comprised entirely of transgender and nonbinary players, with around 80 folks participating! #HockeyIsForEveryone #NHLPride."


\u201cThe NHL is proud to support this past weekend's Team Trans Draft Tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin. This was the first tournament comprised entirely of transgender and nonbinary players, with around 80 folks participating! #HockeyIsForEveryone #NHLPride\u201d
— NHL (@NHL) 1669129506

One of the leading hockey publications, the Hockey News, gave two thumbs up to the event, ironically tagging the article with "women's hockey." With additional calls for more diversity, the hockey publication mentioned the NHL's recent trans-related tweeting, describing replies to the hockey league's comments as "bigoted."

In response to the NHL's promotion of the tournament, a user remarked "So, men playing a womans team?" to which the NHL replied "Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Nonbinary identity is real."


\u201c@BlueMountian12 Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Nonbinary identity is real.\u201d
— NHL (@NHL) 1669129506

'Trans women are women': NHL runs afoul of reality, gets dragged for pushing woke gender ideology



The National Hockey League is being dragged on Twitter for upholding the patently absurd dogmas of radical leftist gender ideology.

"The NHL is proud to support this past weekend's Team Trans Draft Tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin. This was the first tournament comprised entirely of transgender and nonbinary players, with around 80 folks participating! #HockeyIsForEveryone #NHLPride," the NHL tweeted on Tuesday.

\u201cThe NHL is proud to support this past weekend's Team Trans Draft Tournament in Middleton, Wisconsin. This was the first tournament comprised entirely of transgender and nonbinary players, with around 80 folks participating! #HockeyIsForEveryone #NHLPride\u201d
— NHL (@NHL) 1669129506

Someone responded to the NHL's tweet by writing, "So, men playing on womans team?"

The NHL replied by claiming, "Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Nonbinary identity is real."

Transgender women are biological men who identify as women, while transgender men are biological women who identify as men.

"Amazing to watch sports leagues that rely on extraordinary performance by biological men (as well as the viewership of disproportionately male audiences) parrot the idiotic anti-biological garbage of the woke coterie," tweeted conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, the editor emeritus of the Daily Wire. "If this is true, why aren't there any trans men in the NHL? They're real men, after all. Must be terrible and vicious discrimination," he added.

\u201cIf this is true, why aren't there any trans men in the NHL? They're real men, after all. Must be terrible and vicious discrimination.\u201d
— Ben Shapiro (@Ben Shapiro) 1669153112

"The NHL becomes the latest organization to totally debase itself for the sake of pandering to people who aren't their customers and never will be," conservative commentator Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire tweeted.

"If 'trans women are women,' shouldn't the NHL completely support eliminating the sport being divided by men and women? If there's no biological difference (lol), then only have hockey. No men's hockey. No women's hockey. Just hockey. How will that work out? Oh, yes, just men," tweeted David Hookstead of OutKick.

"Would you like some non-sensical horse puckey with your professional ice sport? NHL was getting ratioed for its denial of reality so it is no longer allowing responses," the Federalist editor in chief Mollie Hemingway tweeted.

\u201cWould you like some non-sensical horse puckey with your professional ice sport? NHL was getting ratioed for its denial of reality so it is no longer allowing responses.\u201d
— Mollie (@Mollie) 1669144464