Los Angeles Sparks guard Layshia Clarendon, who was the WNBA’s first openly transgender and nonbinary player as well as an All-Star in 2017, has retired after 12 seasons.

Clarendon, a leader in the WNBA’s social justice initiatives, the league’s first openly transgender and nonbinary player and a 2017 All-Star, sat out the final month of the season for what the

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"The way gender is so damn fluid" in the WNBA is something that the league's first out nonbinary player says they will miss. The post Layshia Clarendon’s beautiful retirement message walks the line between grief and joy appeared first on Outsports.

Layshia Clarendon, the first openly transgender and nonbinary player in the WNBA, has retired. The 33-year-old Los Angeles Sparks guard announced their retirement in a post on Instagram. “The lesson I’ve been learning this last year is that everything comes to an end.

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I'm also really proud of the relationships I built with people and the integrity with which I moved in the sport.”Clarendon, who uses she/her, he/him, and they/them pronouns, announced the news on Instagram,