Colonials' transgender athlete finds supportive environment

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Colonials' transgender athlete finds supportive environment
   
By Kathy Orton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110206564.html

A day after the news first broke that George Washington women's basketball player Kye Allums had begun to identify as a man, Allums was amazed by the reaction he's gotten.

"I was kind of shocked," he said in a telephone interview on Tuesday afternoon. "I didn't know what to expect. I didn't think this many people would find out or even care this fast. I thought it would take weeks or months, but in two days? I have people from Germany saying they had already heard about it and how they wish more people were like me or more people would be able to say something and it's crazy."