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WNBA's Layshia Clarendon has surgery to remove breasts
(AP Photo/Mike Carlson, File)NEW YORK โ Liberty guard Layshia Clarendon, who identifies as transgender and nonbinary, announced on social media Friday that they had surgery to remove breast tissue. The league, the players' union and the New York Liberty released statements offering support to Clarendon. Clarendon wrote in The Players' Tribune five years ago they identify as โblack, gay, female, non-cisgender and Christian," and expanded on their identity in an Instagram post in December. โExisting outside of the binary for me is freedom,โ Clarendon wrote. I know that my gender will keep evolving because we change and grow and shape shift and expand.