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

After 11 years in the WNBA, one of the league's pioneers is calling it a career.Los Angeles Sparks guard Layshia Clarendon is retiring from basketball, they announced in a Friday afternoon Instagram post.

The Los Angeles Sparks announced on Friday that veteran guard Layshia Clarendon will head off to retirement, closing the chapter on an 11-year WNBA career. Clarendon had recently been away from the Sparks due to mental health reasons for the majority of the second half of the season.

History-making WNBA player Layshia Clarendon is hanging up her sneakers. The guard, who most recently played for the Los Angeles Sparks and uses he/she/they pronouns, made history in 2015 when they came out as "non-cisgender" and is credited as the first out trans and nonbinary player in the WNBA.