The Truth About Trans Athletes In Sports w/ Harrison Browne | WHGS Ep. 295

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Ashley Gavin & Studio71

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This episode is deeply informative, listener! Harrison Browne is a transgender actor, filmmaker, and former professional hockey player in the National Women’s Hockey League, but today he’s in the apartment to silence the moral panic around trans athletes in sports ONCE AND FOR ALL! We discuss coming out as trans in a professional sports league, testosterone vs. athletic performance, the nuances of regulations around transgender players, and bizarre gay sex scandals in Boise. Ashley transitions into a woman-woman. Lizzy gets gay typecasted. Check out his queer short film, “Pink Light:” https://www.instagram.com/pinklight.film/ Follow Harrison on IG, TikTok, and Twitter/X: https://www.instagram.com/hbrowne24/ https://www.tiktok.com/@hbrowne24 https://x.com/hbrowne24 FOLLOW ASHLEY GAVIN @ashgavs TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ashgavscomedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashgavs/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ashgavs Twitter: https://twitter.com/ashgavs FOLLOW LIZZY CASSIDY @lizzycassidy TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lizzycassidycomedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lizzycassidy/ Twitter: https://x.com/lizzaster Tour Dates & Podcasts: https://linktr.ee/lizzycassidy SUPPORT OUR PODCAST: Watch this UNCUT: https://www.patreon.com/WHGS Merch: https://shop.merchcentral.com/collections/ashley-gavin Watch on this YouTube: https://youtu.be/bs8hvUxFy3U PRODUCED BY SWETSHOP: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swetshop.tv/ ______________________________________________ SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: MINT MOBILE: Get incredible coverage with no hidden fees at https://www.mintmobile.com/gay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	there's so many variables into what makes an athlete good and what makes an athlete successful.
0:05.7	And just saying like a sweeping hormone testosterone is just the magic sauce of being an amazing athlete,
0:11.6	it doesn't add up.
0:13.1	Like we can look to so many cis men in our lives that have gone through testosterone-driven
0:17.0	puberty and they absolutely suck at sports.
0:20.7	Yeah.
0:20.8	And I mean, the thing that's crazy to me is so many of the people that I hear publicly
0:25.2	talking about not wanting trans people to compete in sports are taking, are men who, like,
0:31.6	cis men who are taking testosterone.
0:33.1	Yeah. Listener, what a fun episode.
0:47.8	Ah, trans people.
0:49.3	Ah!
0:50.5	Trans people in sports!
0:52.1	Ah!
0:55.6	Just kidding, listener.
0:57.8	We have a trans athlete on the show, though.
1:03.0	Professional hockey player, actor, and writer, Harrison Brown.
1:16.3	He's so insightful on not only talking about all the big, hairy, scary issues, no pun intended, of trans athletes.
1:21.1	And it shouldn't be. It should just be an open conversation and all of us learning and sharing and growing. But we get into those complicated issues and we talk about Harrison's own evolution
1:25.6	on the topic. And it's just really fun. It's like a really light way to talk about Harrison's own evolution on the topic and it's just really
1:27.9	fun. It's like a really light way to talk about everything when it's been dominated by fear
1:34.7	mongering and salaciousness. Um, so yeah. And if you're enjoying all of this content with trans people for trans people,
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