Kye Allums

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Kye Allums
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Personal information
BornOctober 23, 1989 (1989-10-23) (age 34)
NationalityAmerican
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] Allums is a transgender advocate, public speaker, artist, and mentor to LGBT youth.

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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. [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, in an interview with ESPN, Allums said that he had attempted suicide. [10]

George Washington statistics

Legend
  GPGames 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] TeamGPPointsFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGPPG
2008-09George Washington113528.618.838.12.21.30.20.13.2
2009-10George Washington2619337.837.175.04.61.10.80.27.4
2010-11George Washington85447.430.063.23.40.60.60.36.8
CareerGeorge Washington4528237.732.762.53.81.00.60.26.3

Advocacy

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

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

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