All 13 players on the Vancouver Island University Mariners basketball team have boycotted two games against Columbia Bible College due to alleged verbal and physical mistreatment of their transgender teammate, Harriette Mackenzie. Mackenzie claims she was subjected to hateful treatment by Columbia Bible College's head coach, Taylor Claggett, who allegedly argued against her participation in women's games. The team is calling for disciplinary action against Claggett and for their conference to address the issue of hate and discrimination.
A group of collegiate basketball players in B.C. say they will not play a pair of games against another team in their division this weekend due to alleged verbal and physical mistreatment of a transgender teammate that they say has not been addressed.
Mackenzie previously said Columbia Bible College’s head coach, Taylor Claggett, yelled at a Mariners staff member after the first game in Nanaimo, B.C., arguing that Mackenzie shouldn’t be allowed to compete against women. She also said she was physically targeted by an opposing player the following night.
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