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The Melville Millionaires of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League have come under fire from a grandmother who says the club removed her from an approved list of player billets because her transgender granddaughter lived at her home.

Ellenor Kormos said the problem arose Oct. 27, after a player from the team who was billeted with her family objected to living in the same house as her granddaughter, which prompted the club to call Kormos into their offices.

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“I was told that while my grandchild was living with me, they would not be placing a player to live here,” Kormos, who has supported the team for decades, said Tuesday.

The player had only been at the home for a few days, Kormos said, adding he had initially indicated he had no issue with the presence of a transgender person in the home, but later changed his mind.

She said the family had been upfront about the issue prior to the player moving in, and that three other players who had lived with her previously had had no issue with her 18-year-old granddaughter, who moved into the house just before Christmas 2015 and has identified openly as a female for more than a year.