Transgender Steps Forward

[Shana A]

Transgender Steps Forward
Filed by: Leslie Robinson
November 23, 2010 8:30 AM

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/transgender_steps_forward.php

Recently our community marked the 12th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a somber day devoted to memorializing those murdered for their gender identity.

Also recently, however, we've seen transgender breakthroughs that are, in a word, fabulousgreatwonderful.

College basketball season has begun, and many a media outlet has covered the story of Kye Allums, a junior guard at George Washington University. At 5-foot-11, Allums won't be shattering glass, but his story is.

[Butterfly]

Transgender Steps Forward
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Leslie Robinson
November 23, 2010 8:30 AM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/transgender_steps_forward.php


Recently our community marked the 12th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a somber day devoted to memorializing those murdered for their gender identity.

Also recently, however, we've seen transgender breakthroughs that are, in a word, fabulousgreatwonderful.

College basketball season has begun, and many a media outlet has covered the story of Kye Allums, a junior guard at George Washington University. At 5-foot-11, Allums won't be shattering glass, but his story is.

[rite_of_inversion]

He says he wanted to wait until after college at first, but then found he couldn't:

"it just got too tough not to be me."

http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/transgender_steps_forward.php



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