By Laura Pappano On the surface, Kye Allums - the transgendered male playing on GW women's basketball team - doesn't present complications for the NCAA. Allums is, biologically speaking, female. He has not undergone physical transformation, including hormone therapy, so he can play on the women's … [Read more...]
GWU’s Kye Allums, transgender man, plays women’s basketball
Kye Allums, a player on the women's basketball team at the George Washington University, announced yesterday that he is transgender, meaning that he is biologically female but identifies and lives as a man. This makes Kye, previously known as Kay-Kay Allums, the first openly transgender male … [Read more...]
Gender identity: Great timing
I am in San Diego getting ready to give a presentation on genderqueer athletes playing women's sports--just two days after news that Kye Allums, who plays on George Washington University's women's basketball team, has just come out as transgender. The news broke earlier this week on smaller … [Read more...]
Including transgender athletes on school teams: A story we will hear more often
Outsports.com has just posted a story about a player on the George Washington University women's basketball team who identifies as a man. The story is Kye Allums' public coming out as a transgender man. The team and coach have known of and accepted Kye's transition for awhile. It's a great story … [Read more...]
Male or Female? Where Do We Draw the Line in Sport?
Here is an excellent ESPN Outside the Lines feature on intersex athletes. Alice Dreger's comments, in particular, are thought-provoking and a must read for anyone in athletics grappling with policy development related to the participation of athletes who are intersex. … [Read more...]
No transfolk on the LPGA
Not sure why I thought the LPGA was allowing MTFs play on the tour. The USGA has adopted a policy governing the participation of transgender people, as has other international golf organizations. Mianne Bagger, a woman who was born a biological male, plays on the Australian and European Tours. I … [Read more...]
LPGA’s transgender ban subject of lawsuit
In The New York Times, Katie Thomas details the lawsuit retired police officer Lana Lawless has filed against the LPGA for banning potential competitors like her who are not born female. Among the other targets of her legal action - and I'm not making any of this up, including her name - are the … [Read more...]
Report urges equal opportunity for transgender athletes
The National Center for Lesbian Rights and the Women's Sports Foundation recently teamed up to tackle the barriers transgender student athletes face when seeking to participate in sex-segregated sports. A report released this week, authored by NCLR's Helen Carroll and WSF/It Takes A Team emerita … [Read more...]
Transgender Student-Athlete Think Tank Report Released
I am really proud to announce the public release of the report from the October, 2009 Transgender Student-Athlete Think Tank that the Women's Sports Foundation and the National Center for Lesbian Rights co-sponsored. Helen Carroll, the director of the NCLR Sports Project and I wrote the report with … [Read more...]
Another good Semenya column
It bolsters my faith in the media and humanity generally to read pieces like Gregg Doyel's column on the negative responses to Caster Semenya this past weekend. Doyel, writing for CBS Sports starts:Someday soon, Caster Semenya could become the fastest half-miler of all time. I'm positive she's fast … [Read more...]