“It was hurtful for me but helpful for women’s hockey,” says the 44-year-old, who is now a chiropractor with her own wellness centre in Brampton. But in 1985 such crossover was unheard of and women’s hockey was in its nascent stages. That’s when a preteen girl from Toronto’s Beach neighbourhood, frustrated in her attempts to play boys’ hockey, wrote to the Sunday Star. “In girls hockey, I was hated,” she recalls. “I was told that I was gay and that was the reason I wanted to play hockey.

Source: thestar November 03, 2017 11:07 UTC