Is there a place for transgender athletes in the NCAA?
http://illuminationmag.com/2011/05/28/is-there-a-place-for-transgender-athletes-in-the-ncaa/5/28/11
By Cristina Picozzi Executive Editor
In November 2010, George Washington University junior, Kye Allums, told the world she was transgender and that she wanted to be socially identified as a male. It is clear that this is a topic that could change the NCAA and the way it regulates collegiate sports.
Allums has played on GW's women's basketball team as a guard for the past two years, and last year he came out to his teammates about wanting to change genders.
Allums told Out Sports that he felt that he was being secretive by keeping this information from people he was really close with such as his coach, Mike Bozeman.
"I was gonna have to hide a piece of me that was really important," Allums said. "All my teammates knew. I don't like keeping things from coach; I'm a very open person. It got to the point where I decided I wasn't going to go through a whole season with my coach not really knowing me, even though I knew it would probably make him feel uncomfortable."
