Kye Allums

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Kye Allums
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Personal information
BornOctober 23, 1989 (1989-10-23) (age 36)
NationalityAmerican
Career information
High schoolCentennial High School
CollegeGeorge Washington
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Women's Basketball Hall of Fame

Kye Allums (born October 23, 1989) is an American 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] Allums is a transgender advocate, public speaker, artist, and mentor to LGBT youth.

Personal life

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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.[5] Allums's teammates called him "Kay-Kay".[2] Allums began telling people to call him "Kye".[6] He came out as a trans man in 2010.[7] He told sports website Outsports, "my biological sex is female, which makes me a transgender male."[2]

In May 2011, GWU announced that Allums had decided to leave the GWU basketball team.[8] He graduated from George Washington University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.[9]

In 2014, Allums told the Huffington Post that he had attempted suicide in 2011 after receiving transphobic harassment due to an article written about him by ESPN.[10]

George Washington statistics

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Legend
  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[11] Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
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

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Allums began traveling around the country to talk about life as a transgender person.[7] 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.[12] He gives advice on confronting bullies when being trans.[13]

He starred in Laverne Cox's documentary The T Word.[7] The film follows young transgender individuals and explains what they go through.[14]

Allums produced a project called "I Am Enough", which encourages other LGBTQ individuals to come out and talk about their experiences.[15] The project allows individuals to submit their stories, thereby showing people who share the same issues that they are not alone.[16]

In 2015, he was inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.[17]

Published work

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Allums published a book called Who Am I?, which features poems and letters he wrote about his parents and himself.[18]

References

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