National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball plans on welcoming transgendered man sportsperson

The controversy over George Washington University student Kye Allums has reached a fever pitch. Kye, who’s a female-to-male transgendered pupil, will continue to play basketball. He can be competing on the female's team. The decision was made in cooperation with the NCAA and George Washington University.

Kye Allums changes to a male identity

Kye Allums was born a female and grew up very much a tomboy. He goes to George Washington and is 21 years old, and he stated that he "always felt like a man trapped in a woman's body" in some interviews. Kye has been becoming a male just lately. It has been a couple of months. Kye is a 5'1'' guard. He had been quoted saying, "I did not choose to be born in this body and feel the way I do."

The National Collegiate Athletic Association still accepting Kye Allums for women's basketball

Kye Allums initially began actively playing National Collegiate Athletic Association women’s basketball for George Washington University on a scholarship. It is a really hard thing for the University and NCAA to determine since Kye nevertheless intentions of competing in basketball, besides the transgender issue. The school had been talked to by the National Center on Lesbian Rights and Women's Sports Foundation. Allums will be allowed to, as long as no testosterone or drug therapy takes place, participate on the women's basketball team still. NCAA rules make it so it isn't allowed for women to have more testosterone than what is naturally produced in their bodies.

The difficulty of sex-split athletics

Though Kye Allums is the first transgendered sportsperson to participate in NCAA basketball, this isn’t the first time the issue has been confronted. The physical gender of Olympic athlete Caster Semenya had been under question for years. The LPGA is getting sued by Lana Lawless for the right to compete as a female golfer, although she was a male who became a female. There is some questioning whether the separation of men’s and women’s athletics ought to just be done away with. The gender issue of transgender athletes will continue to be a problem unless all sports become co-ed.

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