Speaker 1: Welcome to good game with Sarah Spain. Where we had
Speaker 1: to leave Canada, not by exile or extradition or official
Speaker 1: decree or anything. It was just time to go home.
Speaker 1: But we'll be back. I still got to get to
Speaker 1: a Scepter's game and I want to go to the
Speaker 1: top of Toronto c And Tower. It's Friday, June twentieth,
Speaker 1: and on today's show, we'll be talking to hockey power
Speaker 1: couple and teammates on the Canadian national team and the
Speaker 1: Montreal Victoire, Marie Filipoulen and Laura Stacy about the adorable
Speaker 1: moment their romance sparked their decision to share their relationship publicly,
Speaker 1: YPWHL expansion sides Vancouver and Seattle will be threats next season,
Speaker 1: and why Laura wanted league gms to consider her as
Speaker 1: her own player and not Whoo's plus one plus. The
Speaker 1: WNBA Commissioner's Cup Championship is set, a quartet of newbies
Speaker 1: get their first national team call up, and a reminder
Speaker 1: that everything we see on the internet isn't automatically true.
Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this. Welcome Max Slaiceys,
Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Here's what you need to know today in
Speaker 1: WNBA Hoops. The Commissioner's Cup Final is set after Minnesota
Speaker 1: went five to one in Cup play and Indiana went
Speaker 1: four in one, so it'll be the Links versus the
Speaker 1: Fever July first, at eight pm Eastern on Prime. The
Speaker 1: team that wins the n season tournament will be awarded
Speaker 1: a prize pool of five hundred thousand dollars, and each
Speaker 1: player in the championship game earns a chunk of one
Speaker 1: hundred twenty thousand dollars pool of cryptocurrency from sponsor Coinbase
Speaker 1: more hoops. Former Fever draft pick Brie Hall, who was
Speaker 1: waived by Indiana before the start of the season, was
Speaker 1: picked up by the Golden State Valkyries on Wednesday, just
Speaker 1: ahead of the team's game against Indiana on Thursday. The
Speaker 1: former South Carolina standout had been set to play for
Speaker 1: the three XBA A three x three league before redirecting
Speaker 1: to the Bay to join the Valks. Even more hoops,
Speaker 1: I want to shout out a fun moment Tuesday night
Speaker 1: after the Dallas Wings first home win of the season
Speaker 1: and eighty seventy one victory over the Valkyries. In her
Speaker 1: postgame presser, rookie Page Beckers unveiled a custom Gatorade flavor
Speaker 1: made just for her. Beckers, who was the first NCAA
Speaker 1: player to sign an NIL deal with the brand, has
Speaker 1: often talked about her love of Shirley Temples, so the
Speaker 1: brand cooked up what they're calling Page's favorite flavor. They
Speaker 1: even slapped her face and signature on the label. Shirley
Speaker 1: Temple is like my favorite drink of all time, Beckers
Speaker 1: told the media Tuesday as she admired the bottle. No
Speaker 1: word yet on whether the rest of us will ever
Speaker 1: get to try it. Finally, an on court action, We've
Speaker 1: got three games in the w Tonight two contest tip
Speaker 1: off at seven thirty pm Eastern, the Washington Mystics at
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Dream and the Dallas Wings at the Connecticut Sun.
Speaker 1: Then at ten pm Eastern, it's the Seattle Storm at
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Aces. All three games can be found
Speaker 1: on Ion and League Pass to the Soccer Pitch. US
Speaker 1: women's national team head coach Emma Hayes is named the
Speaker 1: twenty five player training camp roster for their upcoming matches
Speaker 1: against Ireland and Canada, remaining true to what she told
Speaker 1: friend of the sho Jeff Casoof on ESPN earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Naomi Germa is the only European based player on the roster.
Speaker 1: The other twenty four play their club soccer in the NWSL.
Speaker 1: Included in the call ups are friends of the Show
Speaker 1: Angelina Anderson, Emily SAMs, Corey bethoon Yasmine Ryan and Izzy Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: Special shout out to Izzy for earning her first call up.
Speaker 1: She joined Seattle Rain center back Jordan bug Gotham FC
Speaker 1: fullback Lily Reel and Seattle Rain midfielder Sam Mezza as
Speaker 1: first time call ups. All four players have been part
Speaker 1: of US youth national teams and played in Youth World Cups,
Speaker 1: World Cup, and Olympic champ Rose Level is also on
Speaker 1: this training camp roster. She returns to the US women's
Speaker 1: national team for the first time in about six and
Speaker 1: a half months after recovering from ankle surgery. The US
Speaker 1: will play Ireland on June twenty sixth outside Denver and
Speaker 1: again three days later in Cincinnati, and they'll conclude the
Speaker 1: international window against Canada July second in Washington, d c.
Speaker 1: To the NWSL. Two games tonight, both get underway at
Speaker 1: eight pm Eastern. Angel City FC pays a visit to
Speaker 1: the League leading Kansas City Current. That one will be
Speaker 1: on Prime Video, and at the same time, the Orlando
Speaker 1: Pride take a trip to Kentucky to play Racing Louisville.
Speaker 1: You can catch that game streaming on NWSL plus. One
Speaker 1: last bit of NWSL news shout out to friend of
Speaker 1: the show Ali Riley, who returned to training for Angel
Speaker 1: City this week after missing months to a nerve issue
Speaker 1: in her leg. The issue forced her to withdraw from
Speaker 1: the Paris Olympics and prematurely ended her NWSL season last year,
Speaker 1: causing her to question her future in the sport. While
Speaker 1: she's not back to full strength, We're so happy to
Speaker 1: see her in uniform and out on the field with
Speaker 1: her team, and you can tell she's overjoyed as well.
Speaker 1: We'll link to a video of her addressing the squad
Speaker 1: at practice in our show notes. More soccer in USL
Speaker 1: Super League news. The Tampa Bay Sun, this season's USL
Speaker 1: Super League champions, have announced plans for a purpose built
Speaker 1: women's soccer stadium, a fifteen thousand seat venue on the
Speaker 1: Ebor Harbor waterfront. The USL Super League a professional women's
Speaker 1: league that launched last year with plans to compete directly
Speaker 1: against the NWSL completed its first season last Saturday, with
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay lifting the inaugural trophy after defeating Fort Lauderdale
Speaker 1: United FC one nil. In April, the league sold its
Speaker 1: naming rights to Gainbridge, and starting with the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five twenty six campaign, will be known as the Gainbridge
Speaker 1: Super League to hockey, roster moves abound in the PWHL
Speaker 1: this week as expansion squad's PWHL Vancouver and PWHL Seattle
Speaker 1: continue to build out their rosters. Here are some of
Speaker 1: the highlights. Forward Hannah Miller signed a three year deal
Speaker 1: to join PWHL Vancouver after playing for the Toronto Scepters
Speaker 1: the past two seasons. Vancouver also added two time Walter
Speaker 1: Cup champion forward Mikayla Cava, forward Terresa Venisheva, and defender
Speaker 1: Emma Greco on two year agreements, as well as defender
Speaker 1: Melissa Channel Watkins on a one year deal. PWHL Seattle
Speaker 1: added defender Mariah Keppel and forward Natalie Snodgrass on one
Speaker 1: year deals and signed forward Lexiagia for two years. Plenty
Speaker 1: of moves elsewhere in the league as well, will link
Speaker 1: to the PWHL's roster updates page in our show notes
Speaker 1: too golf three major championships taking place the next six
Speaker 1: weeks in the LPGA, beginning with the KPMG Women's PGA Championship,
Speaker 1: which teed off yesterday in Frisco, Texas. South Korea's Amy
Speaker 1: Yang is the defending champion last year's breakout Superstar Nelly Corps,
Speaker 1: but still looking for her first win of the season.
Speaker 1: She's finished in the top ten and four of her
Speaker 1: nine starts, and tied for second in last month's US Open.
Speaker 1: We got to take a quick break, yet when we
Speaker 1: come back, it's Marie Philippe and Laura joining us now.
Speaker 1: She's the captain of the Canadian national hockey team and
Speaker 1: the Montreal Victoire of the Professional Women's Hockey League. A
Speaker 1: three time Olympic gold medalist and four time World champion,
Speaker 1: she's known as Captain Clutch after scoring the game winning
Speaker 1: goal in the gold medal game in three out of
Speaker 1: four Olympics in which she's competed. The first female hockey
Speaker 1: player to win the Northern Star Award is Canada's top
Speaker 1: Athlete of the Year. She was named a Knight of
Speaker 1: the National Order of Quebec in twenty twenty four. She
Speaker 1: was also just named the International Ice Hockey Federation Player
Speaker 1: of the Year. She studied psychology at Boston University, and
Speaker 1: she shares the cutest dog ever, Arlow, with her wife.
Speaker 1: It's Marie Philippe Polen.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 1: Marie Philippe, Hi, how are you? I'm good? Thanks? Speak
Speaker 1: of her wife. She's also with us. She's also a
Speaker 1: Canadian national team player and member of the Montreal victor
Speaker 1: of the PWHL. A two time Olympic medalist and winner
Speaker 1: of three Golds for silvers at a bronze with the
Speaker 1: World Championships. She comes from a sporty family, including her
Speaker 1: great grandfather, Francis King Clancy, who's in the Hockey Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame at Dartmouth Grad. She's the other half of
Speaker 1: the Arlow Fan Club and Hockey's greatest power couple. It's
Speaker 1: Laura Stacey.
Speaker 3: Hi, Laura, Hey, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Happy, Pride, Happy. She's gay. Marcus
Speaker 1: Month the best month of the year as far as
Speaker 1: we're concerned. I want to start with Arlow because you
Speaker 1: both seem to be as obsessed with him as I
Speaker 1: am with my three dogs, including putting his face on
Speaker 1: the napkins at your wedding last September. The only thing
Speaker 1: we had in mind for our wedding before we planned
Speaker 1: anything else, was that our dog would be the ring bearer,
Speaker 1: and then our venue would not allow dogs no matter what,
Speaker 1: and we were so sad. So I totally get your obsession.
Speaker 1: And it really feels like, Laura, that Arlow has actually
Speaker 1: genuinely changed your life. Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, He's definitely on a big part of it.
Speaker 4: I think both of us we weren't really sure when
Speaker 4: we were going to get a dog how we were
Speaker 4: going to be able to do it, just with traveling
Speaker 4: and playing hockey year round. But at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, we're like, let's just go for it, let's
Speaker 4: give it a try. It was covid. We just went
Speaker 4: out of limb We're like, let's let's buy a dog.
Speaker 4: And it was definitely one of the best decisions we've made.
Speaker 4: And you're right, we're pretty obsessed, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: He is extremely cute. And I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was your doing, Laura, but I read or listened to
Speaker 1: somewhere that Marie Philippe was like no dog with any
Speaker 1: like fur that might shed I don't want a big one.
Speaker 1: I actually don't know if I want a dog at all.
Speaker 1: So safe to say you were completely wrong in every way, Marie, Fleep.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, You've done your research. I love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't grow up with a dog, and honestly him,
Speaker 5: I did like them, but I was not obsessed. And honestly,
Speaker 5: I would always probably judge people that they would be
Speaker 5: sad when they're leaving the house or they're kissing them
Speaker 5: or living making them sleep in their bed. I was
Speaker 5: probably a first one to judge down. But I gotta say,
Speaker 5: now my whole world kind of turn around for this
Speaker 5: little arlold boy, and I'm obsessed with him.
Speaker 3: So I'm pretty excited about him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that's all I need to tell people,
Speaker 1: is like, you just don't understand. Just get a dog,
Speaker 1: and soon you'll be one of us and you'll be
Speaker 1: a total.
Speaker 3: Free I agree. Until you have one, you don't.
Speaker 4: Know what they do for you and the love they
Speaker 4: give you and even coming home after a loss or
Speaker 4: a bad day, or honestly he has no idea and
Speaker 4: does not care. He still loves us no matter what.
Speaker 4: So it's been a pretty great feeling through everything.
Speaker 1: It's truly therapy, and not in a hyperbolic sense. It
Speaker 1: literally like one of my dogs sleeps directly on top
Speaker 1: of me like a weighted blanket, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is therapy. Actually, Marie Philip, not only
Speaker 1: did it cause you to like love dogs in a
Speaker 1: way you didn't understand, but you actually said in an
Speaker 1: interview a few months after your wedding that Arlow has
Speaker 1: you convinced that kids are in the future and that
Speaker 1: that's your next big project as a couple. So I
Speaker 1: love that the dog was like the little tester for that.
Speaker 1: That's tough to navigate when you've got two professional athletes.
Speaker 1: So what are those conversations like for the two of
Speaker 1: you as you're both still competing at the highest level,
Speaker 1: trying to figure out timing and things like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously, I think we're both still trying to figure out.
Speaker 5: I think we're both in the a little bit getting older,
Speaker 5: and we're all aware of what can be in the future.
Speaker 5: And for sure, for us, having your family having kids
Speaker 5: is in our project and that's what we want, but
Speaker 5: we still love to figure out we still want to
Speaker 5: be part of that.
Speaker 3: Let Victoire.
Speaker 5: We still want to be at the Olympics in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six and we're working hard for that. But I
Speaker 5: think after that it'll be awesome to make this happen.
Speaker 5: But we know it takes a lot of work and
Speaker 5: we'll go one day at a time.
Speaker 1: Speaking of your Montreal Victoire finished the regular season at
Speaker 1: the top of the standings in the PWHL, but exited
Speaker 1: in the playoff. Second season in a row for that
Speaker 1: sort of disappointing finish. What needs to change for the
Speaker 1: team this upcoming season, Laura, Honestly, that's a great question.
Speaker 3: I don't know if we have the answer to that yet.
Speaker 4: I think obviously we've been taking a little bit of
Speaker 4: time after the season to take.
Speaker 3: It in and of deal with that disappointment.
Speaker 4: You're right, two seasons in a row, when you think
Speaker 4: you're close, when you think you're getting there and it
Speaker 4: gets taken from you pretty early or you don't quite
Speaker 4: have it.
Speaker 3: It is disappointing.
Speaker 4: We feel it, our fans obviously feel it, and so
Speaker 4: I think just moving forward, it is finding those different
Speaker 4: ways to win, and obviously we were able to do
Speaker 4: pretty well throughout the season, but at.
Speaker 3: The end of the day.
Speaker 4: What matters is the playoffs and winning a championship, and
Speaker 4: we weren't able to do that for our team and
Speaker 4: for our city.
Speaker 3: So obviously it starts with us.
Speaker 4: We need to find a way to make a difference
Speaker 4: in the playoffs and to have a bigger impact. And
Speaker 4: then again, I think it's just little things and working together,
Speaker 4: becoming more close with our team. And obviously there's a
Speaker 4: lot of big changes here coming up in the PWHL,
Speaker 4: so that's going to be a big thing, is how
Speaker 4: can all these teams adapt to those changes quicker and
Speaker 4: also just get to know their new teammates, get to
Speaker 4: know the new feeling because the teams are changing so drastically.
Speaker 4: So I think to get to the championship, that's what
Speaker 4: it is. It's being able to adapt, being able to change.
Speaker 4: Different things are happening in our environment and our league
Speaker 4: it on a regular basis, and so I think it's
Speaker 4: important for us as veteran players on the team to
Speaker 4: find a way to help every single person adapt and
Speaker 4: be a part of this new team that we're going
Speaker 4: to see next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to talk about expansion, but first I
Speaker 1: want to ask you, Marie, Philip you've won it every
Speaker 1: single level. No secret that you're widely considered the best
Speaker 1: player in the world. It's been two seasons only, so
Speaker 1: very early in this PWHL. But how much pressure do
Speaker 1: you feel when it comes to p WHL titles versus
Speaker 1: the pressure you feel for Canadian national team events like
Speaker 1: the Olympics or World Championships.
Speaker 5: Well, honestly, we like, I'm pretty fortunate to be part
Speaker 5: of such amazing teams and having teammates in the environment
Speaker 5: that allowed us to win. But honestly, being part of
Speaker 5: the PWHL, being part of La Victoire, it is part
Speaker 5: of right away. You jump into that team, you want
Speaker 5: to win, and I don't think it's extra pressure. I
Speaker 5: think it's part of me as an athlete to be
Speaker 5: competitive and wanting to win day in and day out,
Speaker 5: and honestly, starting this league, every team wants to win.
Speaker 5: Every team wants to raise that Walter Cup that first time.
Speaker 5: See the Sea Minnesota doing twice in a row, just
Speaker 5: like the Panthers.
Speaker 1: The Sneaky Frost exactly.
Speaker 3: I think for all of us, we want to win.
Speaker 5: I want to bring him back to Montreal and it's
Speaker 5: gonna be saying yes, there's pressure, but I think thinking
Speaker 5: of pressure in a positive way and just moving forward
Speaker 5: towards that day in and they out.
Speaker 1: We haven't yet seen the logos, the names everything for
Speaker 1: Seattle and Vancouver, so at least for now, Montreal hands down,
Speaker 1: best logo, hands down best jersey. I don't want to say,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't say it for next season because
Speaker 1: we still got to see what's happening with the new teams.
Speaker 1: But that's the jersey that I want. It's so sick.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about expansion. So the expansion draft wrapped up
Speaker 1: last week. The two of you are staying put with
Speaker 1: the Victoire, but the league saw a lot of big moves,
Speaker 1: including Hillary Night signing with Seattle after Boston left her unprotected,
Speaker 1: Montreal losing Kayleb Barnes, Jennifer Gardner, among others. What was
Speaker 1: your reaction when you heard that teams could protect initially
Speaker 1: just three players, Laura.
Speaker 4: Those are tough questions here, obviously, as as players of
Speaker 4: the Victire, it's sad. It's sad to see our only
Speaker 4: three people be protected. Obviously, we didn't know what was
Speaker 4: going to happen, myself included. I didn't know if I
Speaker 4: was going to be protected. So I think just just
Speaker 4: obviously that first unknown and that first scary feeling of wow,
Speaker 4: only three that's quite a small amount, and especially in
Speaker 4: this team that we've created that we thought was going
Speaker 4: to do so well, and obviously even with the result
Speaker 4: of this of the playoffs, I think we still had
Speaker 4: an incredible team. We had great people, great culture, and
Speaker 4: so I think our first reaction as WHOA, this is
Speaker 4: a big change. A lot is going to be different here.
Speaker 4: This team that we have is not going to look
Speaker 4: the same at all. So I think that was our
Speaker 4: initial reaction. And then we've obviously tried to take with
Speaker 4: some perspective here in the sense of like, it is.
Speaker 3: Amazing for women talking.
Speaker 4: It is amazing that two new teams are being able
Speaker 4: to be at to this league in such short time
Speaker 4: because of how well the PWHL and how well all
Speaker 4: six teams have done. So I think that perspective gives
Speaker 4: you like, Okay, this this is for something so much bigger.
Speaker 4: And we started this league with that same sense of
Speaker 4: we want this to be a legacy, we want this
Speaker 4: to be long lasting and forever, and so it is
Speaker 4: important to look at it in all the disappointment in
Speaker 4: the fact that we lost some of our friends and
Speaker 4: our favorite players, Like it is important to zoom out
Speaker 4: a little too and see how how awesome it is.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think obviously three players is it is
Speaker 4: not a lot, And to see how Vancouver and Seattle
Speaker 4: are shaping up, it seems like they are quite the
Speaker 4: great teams. But with that being said, I think all
Speaker 4: six teams have built something pretty special in each market
Speaker 4: for the last two years and I don't think that
Speaker 4: disappears with just this new process. That's still those those cultures,
Speaker 4: those that what's started in all six of those cities
Speaker 4: is still there, and I think all us six original
Speaker 4: teams are are going to rely on those fan bases
Speaker 4: and in order to kind of keep pushing forward here.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot to it. There's a lot of thoughts.
Speaker 4: Obviously it's pretty fresh to all of us, but I
Speaker 4: think it is important that there is a lot of
Speaker 4: positives to it as well.
Speaker 1: I actually had Hillary Knight on the show about a
Speaker 1: week before protected players were announced, and I was joking
Speaker 1: about like, oh, what if Boston didn't protect you? Ha
Speaker 1: ha ha, And she said one of her biggest goals
Speaker 1: before retiring was to bring a cup to Boston and
Speaker 1: then boom, she's gone, which is crazy. I didn't actually
Speaker 1: think that would happen. But it also speaks to the
Speaker 1: kind of talent that these rosters are going to have
Speaker 1: from day one, the talent that they got between the
Speaker 1: signing window and the draft and the noun free agency.
Speaker 1: Just how big of a threat do you think they're
Speaker 1: going to be in their first seasons? Murrayfully, because expansion
Speaker 1: teams usually you can be like, it's gonna take a
Speaker 1: little while, but they look pretty good.
Speaker 5: They look very good. I gotta tell you, they're going
Speaker 5: to be a threat from day one. Honestly, they props
Speaker 5: to the GM that the in drafting those amazing players,
Speaker 5: and yeah, honestly, like hearing Nighter not getting protected, Honestly,
Speaker 5: I was very surprised and shot for us. For me,
Speaker 5: it's the face of women's hockey and especially around the world, and.
Speaker 3: It's hard to see.
Speaker 5: Honestly, she's created that league since day one, so it'll
Speaker 5: be interesting to see, but honestly very happy to see
Speaker 5: her in Seattle creating something.
Speaker 3: Very special there.
Speaker 5: But to see these two teams lining up with these
Speaker 5: with the free agency, with the draft, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: Good for them, but we.
Speaker 1: Got our work, toy. You do worried, I would be
Speaker 1: worried about an angry Hillary Night with something. She's been
Speaker 1: bad enough already. Happy go lucky Hillary Night is scary enough.
Speaker 4: I do think Seattle is quite lucky to have her
Speaker 4: to grow that program with a face like that and
Speaker 4: a player like that. I mean, to start a brand
Speaker 4: new program in a new city like Seattle, I think
Speaker 4: having Nighter there couldn't be more beneficial to them, and honestly,
Speaker 4: probably to the league. I know Boston is really going
Speaker 4: to miss her, but it's it's good for her. That's
Speaker 4: like in that sense too, Laura.
Speaker 1: It's a dream that you two ended up on the
Speaker 1: same team. But as this league was coming together, you
Speaker 1: did not want to be considered a package deal. In fact,
Speaker 1: you've said you had conversations with all the gms in
Speaker 1: the PWHL and said, I only want to be drafted
Speaker 1: if you want me as a person and as a player,
Speaker 1: not as Marie Philipp's plus one or some package deal.
Speaker 1: So can you tell me about that time, because you
Speaker 1: said it was quite hard on you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think obviously I want to be my own
Speaker 4: person as well. My own player, and that's that's important
Speaker 4: to the two of us, is we're not just doing
Speaker 4: this to be a couple and to live in our
Speaker 4: own house. We're doing it to chase our own passions
Speaker 4: and our own dreams, obviously in support of one another
Speaker 4: as well. And so from day one when this league started,
Speaker 4: I had no idea what to expect, and it was
Speaker 4: a nervous feeling coming to Montreal, a new city where
Speaker 4: obviously not a Quebec Quebec Qua player, and they didn't
Speaker 4: really know who I was or where what I was doing.
Speaker 4: So I just I didn't want to have that feeling
Speaker 4: of I'm only in Montreal for that reason. And obviously
Speaker 4: Danielle silvia Jo made that really clear to me and
Speaker 4: important to me that that they wanted me as as
Speaker 4: not only a hockey player, but as a person as well.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I think obviously that's that's been a
Speaker 4: big part of my focus even here throughout the Protection draft,
Speaker 4: that that was important to me as well.
Speaker 3: And I think we're always going to be like that.
Speaker 4: We of course we want to play together, we want
Speaker 4: to live in the same city, we want to spend
Speaker 4: time in our house with Arlow that's that's the dream.
Speaker 4: But on the same side of that, we are both
Speaker 4: passionate about our dreams and and our aspirations and living
Speaker 4: out those and chasing our own goals and dreams. Obviously,
Speaker 4: if we can do it and support of one another
Speaker 4: in side by side, that is the dream and that
Speaker 4: that is the goal. But with that being said, it
Speaker 4: is important for both of us to be our own,
Speaker 4: our own people.
Speaker 1: Marie Fileapel, you say quebec qua, Well.
Speaker 3: You can't be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so that sounded a little bit more natural
Speaker 1: for you. Laura, how is your French when you join
Speaker 1: the team.
Speaker 3: It's not amazing. I'm still working on it.
Speaker 4: I've taken some classes. I have an awesome French tutor teacher.
Speaker 4: It's like one on one. We work together a little bit,
Speaker 4: so she's definitely helped me out recently. I would still
Speaker 4: not great. I still don't have that nice crisp accent,
Speaker 4: but I can definitely understand it a lot more when
Speaker 4: people speak to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that your tutor isn't your wife. That's smart.
Speaker 1: That's this Honestly, you need a little time away. I
Speaker 1: actually want to get back to what's been called the
Speaker 1: Royal wedding because you two have been together on and
Speaker 1: off since twenty seventeen. I actually read about that scary break.
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard about the break until I started diving deep.
Speaker 1: I love that it required one of you to like
Speaker 1: literally stalk the other's team bus and be like, get
Speaker 1: out here, we need to talk, not letting you go.
Speaker 1: But you only more recently, despite having Benji together for
Speaker 1: a number of years, really started sharing more of your
Speaker 1: life and your love publicly and being more open about it.
Speaker 1: And before we get to talking about it now, I'm
Speaker 1: sort of obsessed with the story of the moment you
Speaker 1: both realized that there might be a little spark there.
Speaker 1: So Laura, can you can you share that? Because I
Speaker 1: love that story.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, it was quite early on. It was right
Speaker 4: after centralization. It was at my first time on the
Speaker 4: senior after my first World Championships on the senior team,
Speaker 4: we had this golf tournament.
Speaker 3: It was called good as Gold. It was used to it.
Speaker 3: It used to just be there.
Speaker 4: It used to just be a really fun weekend with
Speaker 4: all of our teammates and sponsors, and it was amazing,
Speaker 4: the best weekend ever.
Speaker 3: Anyways, we were there and.
Speaker 4: We like we were just having drinks with everybody having fun,
Speaker 4: and a bunch of us ended up going skinny dipping.
Speaker 4: Just it was like one two in the morning, no idea.
Speaker 4: There was a big group of us and the shares an.
Speaker 2: Ocean, a pond, a lake, a pool in Blue mountain,
Speaker 2: Blue Mountain, Okay, And a shooting star came flying across
Speaker 2: the sky and there's tons of people in the pool
Speaker 2: and for some reason, like only the two of us
Speaker 2: looked up and saw this shooting star in the sky
Speaker 2: and we kind of made eye contact.
Speaker 4: After and we're like, WHOA, this is a weird feeling,
Speaker 4: a weird spark, And honestly, it wasn't anything. It was
Speaker 4: literally just like this feeling, this moment, and it passed
Speaker 4: and we kind of never did never thought about it
Speaker 4: again until later on, obviously when we started getting closer
Speaker 4: and talking more often. But it always kind of came
Speaker 4: back to that moment of like, WHOA, I felt something.
Speaker 3: Then did you?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I love that?
Speaker 1: And then in the wedding vows you said she was
Speaker 1: the wish I always dreamed of and I didn't realize
Speaker 1: until now that's so cute love. I love cute romantic stories,
Speaker 1: and I think that's such a sweet one. It's also
Speaker 1: very sapfic that you're like, well, we were just in
Speaker 1: a pool with a bunch of naked chicks and we
Speaker 1: caught eyes. We were the two that stood out. It's
Speaker 1: like a little too on the nose, guysfullief. You told
Speaker 1: CBC Sports in November that this is probably the most
Speaker 1: myself I've ever been. I've always been the hockey player,
Speaker 1: but I have a wife and I can be myself.
Speaker 1: People are coming to the rink and saying thank you
Speaker 1: for allowing me to be myself. So what inspired you
Speaker 1: to be more open with fans and family and community.
Speaker 5: I mean, like it did take a while to like
Speaker 5: kind of be okay and be open to this whole
Speaker 5: new world. But I knew my environment, knew about us,
Speaker 5: and it was okay. But I think for us and
Speaker 5: what I saw lately with this league, to have the
Speaker 5: people that come through a game, and it's from all
Speaker 5: different aspects.
Speaker 3: It's from the sport.
Speaker 5: World to the art world to the music world, and
Speaker 5: it's everybody can be themselves. And seeing signs in the rink,
Speaker 5: people on the street where you from afar, You're like,
Speaker 5: there's no way they know about hockey, and they stop
Speaker 5: you and say, oh my god, I came to my
Speaker 5: first hockey game and I love it can be yourselves
Speaker 5: and those are all little moments in the last couple
Speaker 5: of years. I'm like, Wow, it's beyond hockey. It's beyond
Speaker 5: the plays on the ice. It allows people to be
Speaker 5: themselves enjoying something else that maybe they never knew about.
Speaker 5: And it's women's hockey now. And you hear people saying
Speaker 5: I had the best winterever. Have a season ticket, I
Speaker 5: come to every game. Like those all little moments interaction
Speaker 5: that you have with people that are like, really, open
Speaker 5: your eyes two bigger take that hockey and to me, like,
Speaker 5: I still am the hockey player, but now maybe I
Speaker 5: realize a little bit more that I can have more
Speaker 5: of a little bit more of an impact on the
Speaker 5: social aspect, on the people aspect. So that it did
Speaker 5: open my eyes for sure, and I think they did
Speaker 5: open your eyes as well to be okay with what
Speaker 5: we do. And honestly, we're not the most social media people.
Speaker 5: I think we're just trying to be ourselves and if
Speaker 5: people can connect with us, that's that's amazing. And I
Speaker 5: think it's been amazing to see.
Speaker 1: And yet some of the wedding clips did end up
Speaker 1: going viral on social media, particularly the Celine Dion moment,
Speaker 1: which which is so great. Laura, you two have changed
Speaker 1: out of these gorgeous dresses, you guys both look so
Speaker 1: beautiful into these white, awesome suits, and you're dancing to
Speaker 1: Celine Dion and all these players are around you and
Speaker 1: everyone's so ecstatic. It's such a cool moment. I have
Speaker 1: to ask if you're aware that rose Leavelle of the
Speaker 1: US women's national soccer team also has a viral social
Speaker 1: media moment belting out Celine Dion. Have you seen this?
Speaker 4: We saw it after actually and we're like, wow, this
Speaker 4: is this is amazing.
Speaker 1: Apparently this is the women's sports anthem. Or I guess
Speaker 1: Celine Dion brings us all together somehow. Speaking of people,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't necessarily assume no a ton about sports, you know,
Speaker 1: Marie fleep. I just hosted this event in Canada espnW Summitt, Canada,
Speaker 1: and there was a presentation about growing interest in women's sports,
Speaker 1: and there was a bunch of quotes from folks that
Speaker 1: they'd spoken to for the study, and one of them said,
Speaker 1: I came out of protest, and I've stuck around out
Speaker 1: of admiration, which is wild to me because there is
Speaker 1: this element of crossover in women's sport where it's not
Speaker 1: just about rooting for players or a sport, but about
Speaker 1: what it stands for. And it does feel like you
Speaker 1: take on this burden of not only being the best
Speaker 1: at what you do, but also representing so much more
Speaker 1: than that. Whether it's by choice or not, it's sort
Speaker 1: of hoisted upon you. And I've talked to Hillary Night
Speaker 1: about this for literal decades, like you have to sell
Speaker 1: your sport, sell tickets, be a market or be a
Speaker 1: role model, get your workouts in all the other stuff.
Speaker 1: Was that something you had to psych yourself up to
Speaker 1: do because you seem a little bit shyer. Did you
Speaker 1: have to decide to take on the burden of being
Speaker 1: the face of Canada hockey and hockey in general because
Speaker 1: you knew that there was more to be earned and
Speaker 1: won by doing that.
Speaker 5: I think I was lucky enough to follow into the footsteps, honestly,
Speaker 5: from the pioneers and from these amazing womens that came
Speaker 5: before us. Honestly, my dream started in two thousand and
Speaker 5: two when I watched the Olympics on TV and Lily,
Speaker 5: that's when that spark came. And honestly, I was like
Speaker 5: enough to get invited to camps and make it at
Speaker 5: a young age, and where you get to be in
Speaker 5: the dressing room with these amazing pioneers, where you know,
Speaker 5: and as you get older, and as you get with
Speaker 5: these ladies on the World Championship at the Olympics, you
Speaker 5: get to hear more of their story. You get to
Speaker 5: see what they went through and how hard it has
Speaker 5: been or how hard it is right now to push
Speaker 5: women's hockey. And I think a all my career I
Speaker 5: learned so much by it's just up like by just
Speaker 5: looking and watching and hearing. And as I got to
Speaker 5: find my voice on the team as I got older,
Speaker 5: as you're a little bit less shy to ask questions,
Speaker 5: you allow yourself to, yes, become one of the leader,
Speaker 5: but not by yourself. Honestly, I was lucky enough to
Speaker 5: be surrounded by such amazing group and girls that that
Speaker 5: came on the team. And yes, I'm lucky enough to
Speaker 5: maybe be one of the role models. But honestly, like
Speaker 5: every day I look to my left and right to
Speaker 5: see how lucky I am to be surrounded by such
Speaker 5: amazing leaders and to see from my role in the
Speaker 5: national team today seeing the league has been created, It's
Speaker 5: been amazing and honestly, wasn't a decision.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 5: I love doing and honestly, I think I'm somebody that
Speaker 5: leads by action and by leading the way in that sense,
Speaker 5: and honestly, there's not a way that I take a
Speaker 5: day off. I love pushing myself to be the best,
Speaker 5: but honestly, I'm not there by myself, and I'm pretty
Speaker 5: lucky to be doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it is Pride Month, and we're so
Speaker 1: happy that so many athletes, especially in women's sports, are
Speaker 1: able to come out and be their authentic selves. But
Speaker 1: there's lots of folks that are still nervous about taking
Speaker 1: that step. And I wonder, Laura, if you have any
Speaker 1: advice to share with young athletes trying to figure that out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, I think I mean our path, it wasn't like, Okay,
Speaker 4: let's do this specific way or do this. We honestly
Speaker 4: were just stay true to who we are. We didn't
Speaker 4: necessarily want to go and post everything and have all
Speaker 4: these pictures and when we did post. Obviously, sometimes it
Speaker 4: went a little further than we thought and we didn't
Speaker 4: know how to react or who to talk to or
Speaker 4: but it was important to kind of lean on the
Speaker 4: people around us who supported us, who cared about us,
Speaker 4: whether it's our families, our parents, our siblings, our our
Speaker 4: hockey community, our friends. So I would my first advice
Speaker 4: would one percent be lean on the people who love
Speaker 4: you and support you. There's so many people who want
Speaker 4: what's best for you, who care about you as a
Speaker 4: person and just want you to be happy, and so
Speaker 4: lean on those people. They're they're always going to be
Speaker 4: there through the ups, the downs, the ugly and the
Speaker 4: amazing moments. So the people who are there for you
Speaker 4: and the tougher ones, those are the ones who you
Speaker 4: want to keep around. So that would be my number one.
Speaker 4: And number two is honestly, just be yourself. I think
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, when you're genuine when
Speaker 4: you find the right person, when you are genuinely happierself,
Speaker 4: things around you seem to fall all fall into place
Speaker 4: a little bit easier. And those would be my two things.
Speaker 4: Is it's easy to get caught up in social media
Speaker 4: and what's around you and feeling like you have to
Speaker 4: do certain things or fall into the norms. But at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, like as hockey players, we're
Speaker 4: going to be better when we're ourselves as human beings first.
Speaker 4: So I think both of us our careers have been
Speaker 4: better because we're happy in our own selves and we're
Speaker 4: happy together, and our relationships and our life and all
Speaker 4: of that is genuinely true to ourself and who we
Speaker 4: want to be as people first.
Speaker 3: So those would be my two for sure.
Speaker 1: It also feels like there's more folks who came before
Speaker 1: you now to talk to about the decision to come
Speaker 1: out and when and how, especially like soccer and basketball,
Speaker 1: there's been more I think women who are openly gay
Speaker 1: in those sports, and more recent years that athletes in
Speaker 1: hockey really felt like they could come out. Have you
Speaker 1: guys talked to any of them or did you reach
Speaker 1: out to anyone in advance and be like, how did
Speaker 1: you navigate this, especially with sponsors or other folks that
Speaker 1: you're more worried about than maybe friends and family.
Speaker 3: Honestly, we're right, we are really really lucky.
Speaker 4: I think when when we started, honestly, we didn't really
Speaker 4: have those conversations we kind of slid a random Instagram
Speaker 4: post in and everybody was like, oh my god, it's
Speaker 4: so hard.
Speaker 3: Launch We tried to.
Speaker 4: Have as little of conversations as possible and just pretend
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 3: But we're lucky.
Speaker 4: I think we know so many people who are a
Speaker 4: little bit older than us, a generation or two who don't,
Speaker 4: who haven't and still don't have it as easy and
Speaker 4: don't feel as comfortable because that's how they grew up
Speaker 4: or that's all they knew, or it wasn't as normal
Speaker 4: back then, so there's still a little bit more standoffish today.
Speaker 4: So we are extremely lucky and fortunate obviously to be
Speaker 4: able to be at the right timing in the world
Speaker 4: that not only could we play in this new professional
Speaker 4: hockey league, but we could also play together and be together.
Speaker 4: So we're pretty fortunate.
Speaker 3: Obviously. We've leaned on a lot of our friends.
Speaker 4: A lot of our friends are in relationships with girls
Speaker 4: as well, and I think of one hundred percent, our
Speaker 4: environment around it around us made it a lot easier
Speaker 4: to have those conversations, to feel like it was normal.
Speaker 5: There's always going to be people that have comments and
Speaker 5: people that have different opinions and that's life and that
Speaker 5: thing we're aware of. That I think to us is
Speaker 5: just focusing on what's good our environment and that people
Speaker 5: wants the best for us.
Speaker 1: All right, last two most important questions. Was Marcus invited
Speaker 1: to the wedding?
Speaker 3: No, he was not. Haven't met Marcus?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Has anybody heard from Marcus? I think we need to
Speaker 1: have Marcus on the show. I want to ask him
Speaker 1: some important questions about just life and his ability to
Speaker 1: see things and learn things and know things.
Speaker 4: That was like one of our first moments of like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I guess we are a little bit more out there
Speaker 4: than we thought. You had no idea about this whole situation,
Speaker 4: and it blew up right in front of us. So
Speaker 4: it made it a lot easier to transition, like we're together.
Speaker 4: Everybody knows it now, you know.
Speaker 1: It would be cool is if Marcus and Stacy got together.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have heard about their
Speaker 1: lesbian Stacy, but I feel like I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're straight. I don't want to assume anything in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, especially during Pride Month, but what if Marcus
Speaker 1: and Stacy could get together? Wouldn't that be a sweet
Speaker 1: moment they're lesbian stacy is a similar to a their
Speaker 1: gay Marcus moment. Okay, final most important question. How many
Speaker 1: American players were invited to your wedding?
Speaker 3: Two?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Two?
Speaker 3: Or three? Julie two?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just Victoire teammates or.
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, like, like Julie Chu was invited Julian as Meghan
Speaker 3: dug In.
Speaker 1: But isn't Julie Chou married to a Canadian player, So
Speaker 1: that's kind of I feel like, I feel like that's sneaky.
Speaker 1: That doesn't count.
Speaker 4: We had a few Americans invited, not as petty as Canadians.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 1: All right, well allow it if you renew your vows.
Speaker 1: We expect more Americans who are not married to Canadians
Speaker 1: to be welcomed in because I feel like one thing
Speaker 1: that the PWHL has done, beyond all the other amazing things,
Speaker 1: is perhaps defrost a little bit of the rivalry, at
Speaker 1: least when you're not on the ice against each other,
Speaker 1: because it's a little harder to hate each other quite
Speaker 1: so much when you play together and in pursuit of
Speaker 1: the Walter Cup together. Right, I mean that I have
Speaker 1: met way more Canadian hockey players of late, and I'm
Speaker 1: like gosh, Dan, it's harder to hate them. I feel
Speaker 1: sad for them about twenty eighteen. Not that sad because
Speaker 1: it was one of my favorite games ever, but a
Speaker 1: little sad.
Speaker 3: I hope you film even more so after this interview
Speaker 3: I do, which.
Speaker 1: Makes it hard. Also, I want to be a Canadian
Speaker 1: at this point because of you know, everything that's going
Speaker 1: on in Canada's basement right now. I used to call
Speaker 1: y'all America's hat, but now I call us Canada's basement.
Speaker 1: And at the espnW Summit Canada, I did put out
Speaker 1: a petition to ask if anyone would have me if
Speaker 1: things really go badly and I need to relocate, And
Speaker 1: so far Diana Matheson and her wife Anastasia have offered
Speaker 1: me that I could be their roommate, and also Tessa
Speaker 1: Bonham said I can sleep on her couch for a while.
Speaker 1: So I've got a couple offers. But your place looks
Speaker 1: nice too, so I'll add you. I'll add you to
Speaker 1: the list. Thank you so much for the time. We're
Speaker 1: such big fans at the show and it's so great
Speaker 1: to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thanks for having us. We'll get you a
Speaker 3: Victire jersey.
Speaker 1: Thanks again to Laura and Pooh for joining us. We
Speaker 1: have to take another break. When we come back, check
Speaker 1: your sources people, welcome back slices. It's time for another
Speaker 1: What the fact? Last Saturday, Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark
Speaker 1: made her highly anticipated return to the court and helped
Speaker 1: her squad to a one O two eighty eight win
Speaker 1: over the New York Liberty, a win that helped the
Speaker 1: Fever secure its spot and the Commissioner's Cup Championship game. Now,
Speaker 1: we're accustomed to Fever games drawing a ton of eyeballs,
Speaker 1: and Saturday's contest was no different. With two point two
Speaker 1: million average viewers, it was ESPN's third most watched WNBA
Speaker 1: game on ABC ever. But after the game, something caught
Speaker 1: our It was a post from at the Indiana Fever
Speaker 1: on Twitter slash x that read quote, the Indiana Fever
Speaker 1: versus New York Liberty game was the most watched game
Speaker 1: in WNBA history, with twenty point nine million viewers via
Speaker 1: at WNBA on ESPN. Okay, four important things to note.
Speaker 1: One that's not true obviously, as I just told you,
Speaker 1: the number was two point two million. Two at the
Speaker 1: Indiana Fever is a parody account, and it says so
Speaker 1: in the bio. Three at WNBA on ESPN is not
Speaker 1: a real account, and four the infograph reads viewvers viewvers.
Speaker 1: Despite that, over twenty three thousand people like the post
Speaker 1: and over two thousand shared it. What the fact, y'all? Now,
Speaker 1: more than ever, it's important to check your sources, click
Speaker 1: bios and check for parity notices or other stories that
Speaker 1: might look fishy, and look for corroborating stories about the
Speaker 1: alleged incident or report. Well, this is just a throwaway
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Speaker 1: far more damaging tweets and stories that fundamentally impact how
Speaker 1: folks view women's leagues and players. So do your homework.
Speaker 1: Our social media accounts are basically megaphones at this point.
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Speaker 1: we're on the subject of Caitlin Clark's return, videos for
Speaker 1: the interview I did with Marina Mabray a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago started getting flooded with comments this week after Maybury's
Speaker 1: aggressive bump of Kaitlin Clark during the particularly physical Fever
Speaker 1: Sun game on Tuesday night. In case you missed it,
Speaker 1: J C. Sheldon accidentally poked Clark in the eye while
Speaker 1: defending her, and Clark pushed Sheldon away, leading to Mabrey's
Speaker 1: bump of Clark hard enough to knock her to the ground.
Speaker 1: Tita Charles stepped in and she and Clark were both
Speaker 1: assessed technical fouls, while Maybury was given a flagrant three
Speaker 1: players Sophie Cunningham, J. C. Sheldon, and Lynz Se Allen
Speaker 1: all ended up ejected late in the game for a
Speaker 1: completely different incident, and Maybury's flagrant foul was upgraded to
Speaker 1: a flagrant two on Wednesday. So yeah, like I said,
Speaker 1: particularly physical game, Maybury's bump was clearly not a basketball
Speaker 1: play and the league handled it correctly. But Caitlin Clark
Speaker 1: stands now see Maybury as public enemy number one, which
Speaker 1: leads us back to my Instagram and the interview I
Speaker 1: did with Marina where she's hilariously discussing her worst trash
Speaker 1: talk making fun of another player's dog, and that video
Speaker 1: is now seeing a lot of clown face and trash
Speaker 1: can emojis along with some unhinged comments like trash talk
Speaker 1: from a trash player, No one will remember you, Karma
Speaker 1: is coming for you, You'll get yours. You look like
Speaker 1: a McDonald's employee, and without CC you'd make less than
Speaker 1: a McDonald's manager every year for the rest of your career.
Speaker 1: Room temp IQ petitioned to cancel the Connecticut Sons and
Speaker 1: Marina Maybury for not showing sportsmanship and displaying violence on
Speaker 1: the court. What a D list player looks like you're
Speaker 1: a clown emoji. Can't wait to see you get legit
Speaker 1: knocked out mid game for your third grade trash talk. Whoof.
Speaker 1: While I love fans of women's sports being passionate about
Speaker 1: their teams and players, I'll never enduse harassing folks on
Speaker 1: social media, and I certainly can't understand spending your one
Speaker 1: wild and precious life searching the Internet for videos of
Speaker 1: a player so you can comment with trash can emojis
Speaker 1: and a desire to see them injured. Also, I got
Speaker 1: some strays just for being in the video.
Speaker 2: What the fuck?
Speaker 1: Come on, folks, Get some perspective. Root for your faves,
Speaker 1: heck hate on your rivals if you want to. You
Speaker 1: can even trash talk about them at baverbial water cooler,
Speaker 1: but taking personal shots at someone's looks and wishing harm
Speaker 1: on them for a flagrant foul or a physical play
Speaker 1: that's out of control. I promise you no WNBA player,
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark or anyone else wants you up in the
Speaker 1: comments of other players with this messiness. Get a grip.
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Speaker 1: a Tennessee state law banning gender affirming care for minors,
Speaker 1: rating just three out of nine justices with common sense
Speaker 1: and compassion review. On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court passed
Speaker 1: down a ruling in the case of the United States
Speaker 1: Versus Scrimmetti, which was filed last year by three families
Speaker 1: of trans children and a provider of gender affirming care
Speaker 1: the six conservative justices on the Supreme Court voted to
Speaker 1: uphold SB one, a Tennessee law prohibiting certain medical treatments
Speaker 1: for transgender miners. Under SB one, someone assigned a female
Speaker 1: at birth could not be prescribed testosterone, but someone assigned
Speaker 1: male at birth could receive those drugs. Justice is Sonya Sodomyor,
Speaker 1: Katanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan dissented from the majority opinion,
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Speaker 1: by retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most,
Speaker 1: the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims.
Speaker 1: In sadness, I dissent end quote. This is a disheartening
Speaker 1: decision with implications that could set a negative precedent for
Speaker 1: other lawsuits across the country involving the rights of transgender children.
Speaker 1: Power is being taken away from the people who should
Speaker 1: be making these decisions and instead put in the hands
Speaker 1: of government officials. Just in my own circle, I know
Speaker 1: a family that's moving abroad to a different country so
Speaker 1: all their children can feel safe, and another family that's
Speaker 1: seen the hospital that provides care to their child pause
Speaker 1: gender care surgeries in response to Trump executive order back
Speaker 1: in January that threatened to cut federal funding to healthcare
Speaker 1: providers offering gender affirming medical care. My friend posted about
Speaker 1: the hospital after the EO was announced, saying, quote, I
Speaker 1: will only speak from my experience and my perspective on
Speaker 1: here as a mother. It has helped me better support
Speaker 1: my gender non conforming kid. It has welcomed us, celebrated us,
Speaker 1: and opened a door to community we really needed. We
Speaker 1: waited a year to get in, and now that we
Speaker 1: finally are, and EO is trying to shut it down.
Speaker 1: There are so many scary things happening, and our lives
Speaker 1: are steeped in so much privilege. Whatever happens, we will
Speaker 1: fight loud and hard and be okay. But the larger
Speaker 1: implications for multiple eos targeting queer youth are dizzying. All
Speaker 1: parents and educators should fear that the highest office is
Speaker 1: dictating who a child can or cannot be. I could
Speaker 1: talk to you about how much I've learned from my
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Speaker 1: the beautiful spectrum of who we all are. But honestly,
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Speaker 1: fight for. End quote. Trans kids and trans people continue
Speaker 1: to sit in the crosshairs of political bullies within and
Speaker 1: outside of government. But though this moment stings, the fight
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