Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Kickboxing, 1998. Thailand is well-known for its “lady boys,” but when one of them starts beating bigger men in the Kickboxing ring…even in Thailand it causes a stir. That’s what happened when Nong Toom stepped foot in the ring for the [...]
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Moment #89: Washington becomes first state to adopt high school trans athlete policy
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Various sports, 2008. While the rights of transgender athletes to play sports has been fought over in courts and board rooms for nearly four decades, it wasn’t until April 2007 that any state high school sports association adopted any policy opening the [...]
Moment #96: Savoy Howe becomes first out lesbian in women’s boxing
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history. Boxing, 1993. Savoy Howe shot into the sports world out of a cannon. She first stepped foot in a boxing ring in 1992; A year later she was fighting in Toronto’s first-ever sanctioned women’s boxing event. And in 1993 she agreed to [...]
Outsports wins NLGJA award; LZ Granderson named Journalist of the Year
It’s been quite a year for sports, and Outsports has certainly benefited. After Jim’s piece on Hudson Taylor was nominated for a GLAAD Award, now my piece on Kye Allums has won third place for the NLGJA Award for online journalism. The Allums piece was a project of passion for me, and it ignited a [...]
Kye Allums, Lisa Howe recognized by the National Center for Lesbian Rights
It was a real honor to be at the National Center for Lesbian Rights‘ annual celebration in San Francisco last Saturday. Outsports has been a big supporter of NCLR for years because of their dedication to sports and the measurable results fighting for gay rights that put them in a class all their own. Kye [...]
Kye Allums leaves GWU basketball team, will accept NCLR award this weekend
Kye Allums, the first transgender Div. 1 college athlete whose story Outsports broke last November, has decided to not play on the women’s basketball team his senior season. While we can’t discuss specifics, we know this decision has been coming for a while. Having known Kye now for over a year, I know there were [...]
Trans triathlete Chris Mosier wins contest, earns sponsorship with TRX
Big congratulations to trans triathlete Chris Mosier, who locked up a sponsorship deal with TRX! He finished sixth out of about 100 triathletes hoping to get a sponsorship deal with the company; They gave deals to the top 10. The contest was based on YouTube video views, and we’re proud to have sent some new [...]
Trans sports reporter Emerson Whitney covers rural Maine for weekly newspaper
This is the second story in as many weeks we have of out people finding acceptance in sports in rural Maine. This story comes from popular Bar Harbor, a town of 5,000 people, where transgender sports reporter Emerson Whitney is the go-to sports guy at the Mt. Desert Islander. He talks about showing up to [...]
Video: ESPN profiles Kye Allums
ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ Sunday featured a story on transgender basketball player Kye Allums hours before the start of the Women’s Final Four. The piece covered a lot of territory from Kye’s relationship with his mother, Rolanda DelaMartinez, to his high school basketball career, to the acceptance of his team at George Washington. Two videos [...]
ESPN’s Outside the Lines profiles Kye Allums
This Sunday’s ‘Outside the Lines’ on ESPN will feature a lengthy segment on transgender NCAA basketball player Kye Allums and other trans issues in sports. You can see a short clip of the segment after the jump, and it shows they ask Allums some tough questions, some of which we’ve delved into in our coverage [...]
Transgender triathlete Chris Mosier vying for national TRX sponsorship
We have a great article from transguy triathlete Chris Mosier, who talks about once being an MVP in women’s sports to being a middle-of-the-pack dude in men’s triathlon. Trans issues in sports are getting increased visibility, and Chris is the latest example. Plus, he is on a mission to land a coveted sponsorship with training [...]
Kye Allums’ season ends. Looking ahead to surgery, his mom gives us exclusive interview
George Washington University has ended Kye Allums’ basketball season. The transgender junior guard played in only seven games this season as concussions kept him sidelined. In an Outsports exclusive, Allums’ mother, Rolanda DelaMartinez, says the school has mishandled Allums’ playing time and has prevented her son from talking with the media. In addition, she alleges [...]
Kye Allums battles concussions
George Washington University’s transgender basketball player Kye Allums is again battling the repercussions of a concussion he suffered in their Nov. 18 game against Coppin State, GW spokesperson Jesse Hooker has informed me. Allums had returned to play after Thanksgiving and lit up the scoreboard, leading the team in field goal percentage shooting 13-for-26 in [...]
Vote: Outsports Sportsperson of the year
While the search for the first openly gay active pro athlete in the big four American sports continues, there was a lot of good that happened for gays in sports in 2010. Many more athletes came out, many more straight allies came on board, and transgender athletes became big stories for the first time in [...]
Kye Allums returns with big game and win
Kye Allums missed his team’s previous three games with a concussion, but he came back Sunday with a vengeance, shooting 3-for-5 from the field scoring 10 points and pulling in two rebounds as George Washington beat George Mason, 67-58. The GWU Colonials trailed the George Mason Bulldogs, 30-17, at halftime before roaring back for the [...]
Trans golfers now welcome on LPGA Tour
Members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association on Tuesday voted to scrap the “female at birth” qualification for golfers to play on the tour. The decision follows a lawsuit filed by trans golfer Lana Lawless, who had been barred from the LPGA and other women’s golf events including the Long Drivers of America championship, which [...]
LPGA to open its doors to trans golfers?
The Ladies Professional Golf Association is considering a change to its gender policy that would open the door to trans golfers playing on the women’s tour. Currently a member of the LPGA has to be born a biological female. The change would put the LPGA more in line with the International Olympic Committee. The change, [...]
Kye Allums has big game, GWU gets first win
It took until the third game of the season, but openly transgender George Washington University point guard Kye Allums finally gave his fans a game to remember. Playing just 15 minutes, Allums racked up a game-high 12 points and hauled in 7 rebounds in the Colonials’ 63-42 victory over Coppin State. Seven of Allums’ points [...]
Michael Medved lashes out at Kye Allums
Kye Allums’ recent coming out was incredibly well-received by most in the media. Of course, there are the occasional jerks like Michael Medved who have no interest in understanding and whose only objective is to be a raging asshole. Medved states in a blog post: An insane level of political correctness recently dictated that George [...]
Kye Allums, GWU lose opener
Kye Allums’ first game as an openly transgender man ended in disappointment as his team lost to Wisconsin-Green Bay, 75-51, in the Best Buy Classic. The tournament is being held in Minneapolis, near Allums’ childhood home. Allums played 15 minutes and racked up 1 rebound and 1 assist. “Kye played pretty well,” Allums’ head coach [...]