The "we can always tell" crowd loses another one.
Hockey star kicked out of women’s restroom by ‘gender police’ who thought she was a man
Hockey star Madison Packer played in five All-Star Games and is the second-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier Hockey Federation, which was the forerunner to the National Women’s Hockey League.
Packer is widely recognized as an icon of women’s sports. Yet not for the first time, Packer recently found herself being misgendered as a result of gender policing she believes is escalating in line with heightened anti-trans rhetoric.
Two weeks ago, the 33-year-old posted an Instagram story to say that in late April she had been “forcibly removed” from a women’s bathroom stall in a Florida nightclub.
She was prompted to go public after learning of a woman who was kicked out of a Boston hotel bathroom, having been ordered by an attendant to “prove” she was female.
Packer, who spent eight seasons with the Metropolitan Riveters in the NWHL and PHF, wrote “sounds familiar” when sharing an article about the incident on social media.
She describes her own experience in Florida as “humiliating” and connects it directly to the ongoing discourse in society that suggests trans people pose a threat in women’s spaces.
“The entire bathroom situation is absurd,” Packer tells Outsports.
“The fear-mongering and outright propaganda we have perpetuated against the trans community in this country is pathetic.”
Read the rest of the story here:
https://www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24112102/madison-packer-womens-hockey-florida-bathroom-bill-trans-athletes/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKeN2JjbGNrAp43UWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeBZwjfcmBnAr-RHGC2xN2XD7NfC4yaQuXJZEGuAuadKqJe3K_wY2FyyaFTmY_aem_YTYFQgGxiNdiSzesIXQYqw
Hockey star Madison Packer played in five All-Star Games and is the second-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier Hockey Federation, which was the forerunner to the National Women’s Hockey League.
Packer is widely recognized as an icon of women’s sports. Yet not for the first time, Packer recently found herself being misgendered as a result of gender policing she believes is escalating in line with heightened anti-trans rhetoric.
Two weeks ago, the 33-year-old posted an Instagram story to say that in late April she had been “forcibly removed” from a women’s bathroom stall in a Florida nightclub.
She was prompted to go public after learning of a woman who was kicked out of a Boston hotel bathroom, having been ordered by an attendant to “prove” she was female.
Packer, who spent eight seasons with the Metropolitan Riveters in the NWHL and PHF, wrote “sounds familiar” when sharing an article about the incident on social media.
She describes her own experience in Florida as “humiliating” and connects it directly to the ongoing discourse in society that suggests trans people pose a threat in women’s spaces.
“The entire bathroom situation is absurd,” Packer tells Outsports.
“The fear-mongering and outright propaganda we have perpetuated against the trans community in this country is pathetic.”
Read the rest of the story here:
https://www.outsports.com/2025/5/21/24112102/madison-packer-womens-hockey-florida-bathroom-bill-trans-athletes/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKeN2JjbGNrAp43UWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeBZwjfcmBnAr-RHGC2xN2XD7NfC4yaQuXJZEGuAuadKqJe3K_wY2FyyaFTmY_aem_YTYFQgGxiNdiSzesIXQYqw
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