Vice News seems to have forgotten that it was present. Team Pink (the MTF team) got to 7-0 in the final and then were told to stop running the score up, and Team Black (the FTM team) scored a single goal which was clearly off-side, but was allowed so that they didn’t get blown out.

The most telling thing is the self report by the Team Black player who, upon being lightly checked, got ktfo, concussed and stretchered off.

That Team Black player knocked into the boards has recovered. In a recent social media post, #91 reported, “I am okay, [though] I was diagnosed with a concussion and muscle strains in my left neck, shoulder, and back.”

Strangely, though, the player then went on to provide an apparently fictionalized account of the accident. While the video plainly shows #91 being struck by a Team Pink player, the victim reports that, “I was playing the puck, and I took a very odd fall into the boards.” There’s no mention of any opposition player—though the post also notes, cryptically, that this part of the story is “sensitive.” Reading this self-blaming narrative reminded me of those stories about women in troubled relationships who tell friends they got their black eye from walking into a door.

One is left to wonder if the “sensitive” nature of this tale helps explain why details about the tournament went unreported, notwithstanding all the NHL and media hype that came before the puck dropped. Ignoring or hiding the importance of biological sex may align with the publicity needs of NHL executives and the ideological demands of trans activists. But it does a grim disservice to every female hockey fan who skates up to play.

Seems that not only did the match reveal the uncomfortable reality of sports, the powers that be and the participants themselves are desperate to keep it all under wraps for the sake of The Message