Posted on Wednesday, 12.29.10
Transgender athlete's bravery worthy of cheers
By Greg Cote
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/29/1992028/transgender-athletes-bravery-worthy.html (http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/12/29/1992028/transgender-athletes-bravery-worthy.html)
College athletes are teenagers growing on stage into young adults, and so there might be not much unusual that one of the players competing in a basketball game against the University of Miami here Tuesday night has spent this season becoming a man.
Except for this:
It was a women's game.
The first publicly transgender athlete in NCAA Division I basketball -- in this case a player born female and transitioning to male -- played with the George Washington University team that faced UM in an 83-62 Hurricanes victory, and the juxtaposition was notable.