Kye Allums
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Personal information | |
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Born | October 23, 1989 | (age 34)
Nationality | American |
Career information | |
High school | Centennial High School |
College | George Washington |
Kye Allums (born October 23, 1989) is a former college basketball player for the George Washington University women's team who in 2010 came out as a trans man, becoming the first openly transgender NCAA Division I college athlete.[1][2][3][4][5] Allums is a transgender advocate, public speaker, artist, and mentor to LGBT youth.
Personal life
Allums graduated from Centennial High School in Circle Pines, Minnesota, United States. He played three seasons as a guard on the women's basketball team at George Washington University, the George Washington Colonials.[6] Allums's teammates called him "Kay-Kay".[7] Allums began telling people to call him "Kye".[8] He came out as a trans man in 2010.[9] He told sports website outsports.com, "...My biological sex is female, which makes me a transgender male."[10]
In May 2011, GWU announced that Allums had decided to leave the GWU basketball team.[11] He graduated from the George Washington University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.[12]
In 2014, Allums said that he had attempted suicide after ESPN came out with his story.[13]
George Washington statistics
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year[14] | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2008-09 | George Washington | 11 | 35 | 28.6 | 18.8 | 38.1 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 3.2 |
2009-10 | George Washington | 26 | 193 | 37.8 | 37.1 | 75.0 | 4.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 7.4 |
2010-11 | George Washington | 8 | 54 | 47.4 | 30.0 | 63.2 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 6.8 |
Career | George Washington | 45 | 282 | 37.7 | 32.7 | 62.5 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 6.3 |
Advocacy
Allums began traveling around the country to talk about life as a transgender person.[15] He visits high schools, colleges and universities to discuss the transgender community and how it is possible to be transgender and play on a team.[16] He gives advice on confronting bullies when being trans.[17]
He starred in Laverne Cox’s documentary The T Word.[18] The film follows young transgender individuals and explains what they go through.
Kye produced a project called "I Am Enough", which encourages other LGBTQ individuals to come out and talk about their experiences.[19] The project allows individuals to submit their stories, thereby showing people who share the same issues that they are not alone.[20]
In 2015, he was inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.[21]
Published work
Allums published a book called Who am I, which features poems and letters he wrote about his parents and himself.[22]
References
- ^ "First transgender athlete to play in NCAA basketball". CNN. March 23, 2010. Archived from the original on October 13, 2011.
- ^ Brady, Erik (November 4, 2010). "Transgender male Kye Allums on the women's team at GW". USA Today.
- ^ http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/10/lgbt-history-month-kye-allums-first-openly-transgender-athlete/
- ^ Brady, Erik (November 4, 2010). "Transgender male Kye Allums on the women's team at GW". USA Today.
- ^ "21 Transgender People Who Influenced American Culture". Time Magazine. May 29, 2014.
- ^ http://www.gwsports.com/sports/w-baskbl/mtt/allums_kye00.html
- ^ Brady, Erik (November 4, 2010). "Transgender male Kye Allums on the women's team at GW". usatoday30.usatoday.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Moore, Elliott. "Kye Allums Discusses His Personal History as a Transgender Athlete". www.glaad.org. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Steinmetz, Katy (October 28, 2014). "Meet The First Openly Transgender NCAA Division I Athlete". www.time.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Brady, Erik (November 4, 2010). "Transgender male Kye Allums on the women's team at GW". usatoday30.usatoday.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ "Kye Allums Leaving Basketball". Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved March 31, 2012.
- ^ Allums, Kye. "About". www.kyeallums.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Nichols, JamesMichael (January 21, 2014). "Kye Allums, Trans Sports Star, Reveals He Wanted To Kill Herself After ESPN Profile". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ "NCAA® Career Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
- ^ Steinmetz, Katy (October 28, 2014). "Meet The First Openly Transgender NCAA Division I Athlete". www.time.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Allums, Kye. "Booking". www.keyallums.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Moore, Elliott. "Kye Allums Discusses his Personal History as a Transgender Athlete". www.glaad.org. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Steinmetz, Katy (October 28, 2014). "Meet The First Openly Transgender NCAA Division I Athlete". www.time.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Allums, Kye. "Who am I?". www.kyeallums.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Mase III, J (December 17, 2013). "Are You Enough? Kye Allums Thinks So". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
- ^ Jim Buzinski (July 27, 2015). "9 inducted into National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame". Outsports.
- ^ Allums, Kye. "Who Am I?". www.amazon.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
External links
- GW Transgender Player Deals With Wave of Publicity, AP
- Allums, Kye (January 22, 2014). "Grantland, Dr. V and Being Enough". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150506102130/http://kyeallums.com/ Allum's personal website
- 1989 births
- Living people
- African-American basketball players
- George Washington Colonials women's basketball players
- LGBT African Americans
- LGBT sportspeople from the United States
- Sex segregation
- Transgender and transsexual men
- Transgender and transsexual sportspeople
- LGBT basketball players
- LGBT people from Minnesota
- American basketball biography, 1980s birth stubs