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Kye Allums, George Washington junior, to become first openly transgender basketball player in NCAA
George Washington University women's basketball player Kye Allums has reason to be a little nervous going into this season's opener.
When the junior steps out on the court, he will be the first openly transgender player in NCAA Division I basketball.
"I used to feel like trans anything was really weird and those people were crazy, and I wondered, 'How can you feel like that?'" he said, in an interview with Outsports.com. "But I looked it up on the Internet and I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm one of those weird people."
Allums, 20, a self-described tomboy from a small town in Minnesota, told the website he started feeling like an outsider during middle school when he noticed he didn't act like many of the other girls.
He spent a year trying to be more feminine, and when that failed to feel right, he identified as a lesbian.
But even that wasn't a natural fit for Allums, who says he realized his true identity during his freshman year of college.
By sophomore year, he was asking people to call him by male pronouns.
Read more: Kye Allums, George Washington junior, to become first openly transgender basketball player in NCAA
George Washington University women's basketball player Kye Allums has reason to be a little nervous going into this season's opener.
When the junior steps out on the court, he will be the first openly transgender player in NCAA Division I basketball.
"I used to feel like trans anything was really weird and those people were crazy, and I wondered, 'How can you feel like that?'" he said, in an interview with Outsports.com. "But I looked it up on the Internet and I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm one of those weird people."
Allums, 20, a self-described tomboy from a small town in Minnesota, told the website he started feeling like an outsider during middle school when he noticed he didn't act like many of the other girls.
He spent a year trying to be more feminine, and when that failed to feel right, he identified as a lesbian.
But even that wasn't a natural fit for Allums, who says he realized his true identity during his freshman year of college.
By sophomore year, he was asking people to call him by male pronouns.
Read more: Kye Allums, George Washington junior, to become first openly transgender basketball player in NCAA
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