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Transgender athlete's bravery worthy of cheers

Started by Shana A, December 29, 2010, 10:18:33 AM

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Shana A

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

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.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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