Eathon's Story
/Eathon is a 4th year student at Trent University who plays goalie for the Peterborough Huskies, a special needs hockey team that will be playing in Special Hockey International tournament here in Peterborough in March 2017. Eathon is transgender. Below is Eathon's story...
Eathon playing goal for the Peterborough Huskies
Many of you know me as Eathon or “Bernier” and that I’m the intermediate starting goaltender for the Peterborough Huskies, and a fourth year Trent Student. What you probably didn’t know is that I am also a Transgender man, and most likely the first openly trans player in Special Hockey International (SHI) history.
Being Transgender means that a person identifies with the gender opposite from what they were assigned at birth. For me, that means I was assigned as a woman a birth but I identify as a man now 22 years later.
The medical term is called gender dysphoria, and it means exactly as it sounds: a person feels a state of unease or generalized dissatisfaction when it comes to their assigned gender. There are varying degrees of how one might face this—some are happy just changing their name and/or how they identify, other may choose to include hormones and surgery.
Eathon