Former CU Buff basketball player identifies as 'third gender'

[Shana A]

Former CU Buff basketball player identifies as 'third gender'
Gender Blender documentary follows Lauren Lubin through surgery
Whitney Bryen
Posted:   07/02/2012 05:10:02 PM MDT
Updated:   07/02/2012 06:54:22 PM MDT

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_20992195/former-cu-buff-basketball-player-identifies-third-gender

As a former guard for the Buffs women's basketball team, University of Colorado alumna Lauren Lubin knew what it meant to be in the spotlight.

Lubin, 27, said on the basketball court she was accustomed to scrutiny for mistakes, but her latest project will put the spotlight on her challenges off the court.

Lubin and her creative team are working on a documentary called "Gender Blender: A Movie About a Third Gender," that follows Lubin as she undergoes surgery to remove her breasts and transform her currently female body to become gender neutral. She said this will mirror how
she feels inside.

"Even as a kid, it seemed weird to me that people were either male or female," Lubin said. "My body was female but my mind was both male and female. I'm neutral and I fit into this unlabeled, unrecognized third gender."

[Jamie D]

Thanks for posting this article.  I have always wanted to read the trans* sports pages.

[Shana A]

Tue Jul 03, 2012 at 03:00 PM PDT
Gender Blender: a movie

by rserven

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/03/1105575/-Gender-Blender-a-movie

I usually cringe when I see or hear someone defining transgender by the "woman born in a man's body" or "man born in a woman's body" trope.  I only got one body, so it couldn't be the wrong one.  My point is that it is my body and I should have freedom to adapt it to who I am.

Lauren Lubin, a former basketball player for the University of Colorado, has a different take on personal identity.  Lauren is embarking on a transition from female to neutral. 

Lauren is also documenting the process, in Gender Blender:  A Movie about Third Gender.
I am Third Gender.

I exist outside of the definition of gender.  This is my story.