Transgender Steps Forward
Filed by: Leslie Robinson
November 23, 2010 8:30 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/transgender_steps_forward.php (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.
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 (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.
He says he wanted to wait until after college at first, but then found he couldn't:
Quote"it just got too tough not to be me."
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/transgender_steps_forward.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/transgender_steps_forward.php)
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