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The Shamrocks club has 150 members and was established in 1948 to promote Gaelic football, camogie and hurling, all Irish sports.

Larissa Andrusyshyn, who captains the Canadian camogie team, says the club has about 10 members who identify as transgender, nonbinary or use they/them pronouns. One of the players uses the X gender identifier on their passport, she adds.

Some members, including some who don't identify as LGBTQ+, had voiced fears about their safety in the U.S., Andrusyshyn says.聽

"They didn't feel their security could be guaranteed," she said in an interview Thursday, adding that the current U.S. administration has been working to erase LGBTQ+ identities.聽

"The other reason that came up is a few members didn't feel comfortable spending money in that economy," she said.

Since returning to office, U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a host of executive orders targeting the transgender community, including a ban on transgender athletes participating in girl鈥檚 and women鈥檚 sports. Trump has also signed orders to halt federal funding for gender-affirming health care for people under the age of 19, and to require that the federal government use only male and female sex designations on official documents.

Club chairman Jake Ouellette says players were initially excited to take part in the games before the political climate soured 鈥� Trump has also imposed tariffs on Canadian goods and threatened to use "economic force" to annex Canada into the 51st state.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a great way to promote Gaelic games and play against different teams outside our usual region,鈥� Ouellette said in a statement Thursday.聽

Andrusyshyn says playing in the U.S., and against the Boston club in particular, would have provided a stiff challenge. More importantly, the tournaments would have served as good preparation for the Gaelic Athletic Association's Word Games next year, an international competition she compares to the FIFA World Cup for nations that play Gaelic sports.

In a press release the club said it will focus its 2025 on competitions held in Canada and partake in future tournaments in the U.S. when all its members 鈥渇eel confident and safe鈥� travelling to the country.聽

This report by 国产诱惑福利 was first published March 6, 2025.

鈥擶ith files from The Associated Press