Last Friday, when the final whistle blew during Canada’s first group stage match against Nigeria, there was little fanfare. A goalless draw, and by some accounts a bit of a sloppy match, both teams traipsed off the pitch to regroup.
Yet, unbeknownst to many, on that Friday afternoon in Melbourne one of Canada’s players had quietly made history. As the full-time whistle blew, 27-year-old midfielder Quinn became the first transgender and non-binary person to appear at either a men’s or women’s World Cup. And this wasn’t even the first time Ontario native, known by the mononym Quinn, had entered the history books.
