The controversy over George Washington University pupil Kye Allums has reached a fever pitch. Allums can play female's basketball next year. This is controversial because Kye is a female-to-male transgendered person. George Washington University consulted with the NCAA before making this decision.
Change to a male for Kye Allums
Allums had been just one of the many girls that were a tomboy. She was like this her whole life. He goes to George Washington and is 21 years old, and he said that he "always felt like a man trapped in a woman's body" in some interviews. Kye has been becoming a man lately. It has been a couple of months. He is a 5'11" guard and stated, "I didn't choose to be born in this body and feel the way I do."
Kye Allums to participate in National Collegiate Athletic Association women’s basketball
Actively playing on the NCAA women's basketball team for George Washington University had been what Kye Allums is currently doing. This is because she had a scholarship to do so. The transgender issue makes it hard for the University and NCAA to know what to do about this. Kye would like to continue competing in basketball. The National Center on Lesbian Rights and Women’s Sports Foundation offered guidance to the school. A decision had been finally reached about what Allums had been allowed to do. She wouldn’t be allowed to have any testosterone or drug therapy if she wanted to continue to participate on the women's basketball team. Testosterone above what is naturally produced in the body is banned in student athletes, based on National Collegiate Athletic Association rules.
Sex split athletics are difficult
The transgender issue has been talked about although the NCAA basketball issue with Allums is the first. The Olympic athlete Caster Semenya had been questioned. The physical gender was the concern. A man who became a female is suing the LPGA in order to contend as a professional woman golfer. This is Lana Lawless. Numerous think that there shouldn't be a male and woman separation in sports anymore anyway. The gender issue of transgender athletes will continue to be an issue unless all athletics become co-ed.
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cnn.com/2010/US/11/03/transgender.basketball.player/index.html?npt=NP1
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