Trans athlete wins MVP of women's college basketball tournament after dominating Christian rival in title game

A Canadian women's assemblage hoops league title crippled connected Saturday nighttime saw a transgender player people 21 points successful triumph and yet triumph tourney MVP. 

Trans jock Harriette Mackenzie led Vancouver Island University (VIU) to a 69-59 triumph over Columbia Christian College (CBC) successful the PACWEST Championship game. Mackenzie finished the crippled with 10 rebounds successful summation to the athlete's game-leading 21 points. 

Mackenzie was past awarded league tourney MVP successful a ceremonial aft the game. It capped disconnected a play successful which the jock punished contention connected the court, starring the full league successful scoring by a 62-point borderline implicit the second-place score, and leveraged Canada's anti-discrimination laws to bring punishment to CBC disconnected the court.

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Mackenzie's tourney MVP grant and league title came aft a season-long feud betwixt the 2 teams, which the trans jock was astatine the halfway of. Mackenzie was the conference's subordinate of the twelvemonth successful 2023.

The feud resulted successful the suspension of CBC caput manager Taylor Clagett, and CBC mislaid the rights to big the PACWEST championships, arsenic Saturday's crippled was expected to beryllium played connected CBC's ain location court. Instead, due to the fact that of sanctions placed connected CBC implicit allegations made by Mackenzie, the crippled was played astatine Capilano University. 

The feud started during an Oct. 25 crippled betwixt the 2 teams, which VIU won 69-56 aft Mackenzie scored a game-leading 19 points. Five days aft that crippled connected Oct. 30, the trans jock posted an Instagram video alleging that Clagett "cornered 1 of our diversion unit and went connected a tirade astir however I shouldn’t beryllium allowed to play."

Mackenzie alleged she was besides deliberately fouled to the crushed by a CBC player.

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"I got two-hand chucked to the crushed by No. 13 without a play connected the shot successful sight, past caput manager Clagett tin beryllium seen applauding successful support," the trans jock said. 

In response, Clagett posted her ain connection connected Instagram, claiming that Mackenzie's statements were inaccurate.

"My volition has thing to bash with a circumstantial athlete, but instead, the information of pistillate athletes successful their sport," Claggett wrote.

VIU past submitted a ceremonial ailment to the PACWEST, prompting an probe against VIU. When the 2 teams were scheduled to play each different again successful 2 games connected Jan. 10 and 11, VIU refused to play owed to the alleged incidental from their archetypal meetings. 

"Intimidation, harassment, and favoritism person nary spot successful athletics," VIU said successful a connection to Fox News Digital successful January regarding the determination not to play. "VIU stands successful afloat enactment of our student-athletes and affirms the close of each athletes to vie successful an situation that prioritizes their information and well-being."

VIU adjacent requested that the 2 forfeits not number arsenic losses connected the team's record, which was granted by the PACWEST. 

CBC provided a connection to Fox News Digital that play stating, "accusations that CBC, its coaches, players, and fans are a information menace are simply untrue and misinformed." 

CBC players past condemned Mackenzie successful a missive sent to Fox News Digital. 

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CBC players blamed Mackenzie for "personal attacks," "defamatory comments" and adjacent "comments that incite violence," against their coach. 

"Videos and letters posted by members of the VIU women’s hoops squad implicit the past 3 months person straight violated aggregate rules stated successful Article 17.2 of the manual. Various posts person included 'personal attacks,' 'defamatory comments,' 'lack of respect towards the PACWEST,' and led to 'comments that incite to unit and/or hatred' directed astatine our coach," the missive read.

"Any and each allegations made by VIU players regarding our squad and manager should person been straight communicated to PACWEST officials alone, they should not person been uploaded publically to societal media."

The PACWEST past suspended Clagett successful aboriginal February, and CBC mislaid its close to big the PACWEST championships aft an probe by the conference. 

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VIU went connected to decorativeness archetypal successful the league with a 21-1 grounds and volition present spell into the nationalist tourney arsenic a league champion. CBC volition person to settee for a wildcard spot.  

Since June 2017, each places wrong Canada indispensable comply with the Canadian Human Rights Act, adjacent accidental and/or anti-discrimination authorities prohibiting favoritism against sex individuality oregon gender-identity expression. This instrumentality protects the inclusion of each trans athletes successful women's and girls' sports. 

President Donald Trump's caller "No Men successful Women's Sports" enforcement bid successful the U.S. states that immoderate publically funded instauration that allows trans athletes to vie successful girls' oregon women's sports volition suffer its national funding. He has besides repeatedly suggested that Canada articulation the U.S. arsenic the 51st state.

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