Mike Bozeman, the man who blamed transgender player Kye Allums for his team’s horrific 2010-11 season, has been fired as the head coach of the George Washington women’s basketball team. Bozeman has been replaced by Notre Dame assistant coach Jonathan Tsipis, whose team lost in the national championship this year. Bozeman was a complete disaster [...]
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GLAAD media awards nominees announced; sports virtually absent
Over the last few years we’ve been very pleased to see GLAAD recognize the increasing LGBT work done in sports with multiple sports-related nominees for their media awards. This year, as far as we can tell only one of the 151 nominees is directly related to sports: ESPN’s segment on Kye Allums. What makes that [...]
Video: Anderson Cooper talks with Kye Allums
A few weeks ago, Anderson Cooper featured transgender youth on his program. For the last few minutes of the show he chatted via Webcam with trans former George Washington basketball player Kye Allums. Allums talked about his struggles being accepted, particularly by his mother. Video after the jump. Allums comes in at minute 36:00. Share [...]
Kye Allums, Steve Buckley, Jared Max make for sportiest Out100 ever
We can’t remember an Out100 list that included so many athletes and people from the sports world. We already reported on Gareth Thomas’ inclusion on the list. Today the magazine revealed the names of three more: Sports columnist Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald; ESPN radio host Jared Max; and former college basketball player Kye [...]
Moment #44: Kye Allums comes out
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. College basketball, 2010. When Kye Allums contacted Outsports in the spring of 2010, he was afraid of the repercussions of coming out as the first publicly out transgender male playing women’s college basketball. Other trans athletes like Keelin Godsey had come [...]
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 [...]
Four athletes make Advocate’s Forty Under 40
The Advocate released their annual Forty Under 40 this week. The list highlights the work of LGBT people under 40 who are making a difference. It was cool to see several people on the list that had gotten their initial introduction to the U.S. here at Outsports: Wrestler Akil Patterson (right), speed skater Blake Skjellerup [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kye Allums’ mother claims death threats
As Kye Allums heads home with his George Washington University basketball team for the Best Buy Classic, his mother claims she has received death threats because of Kye’s revelation that he is transgender. In an interview with the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Rolanda Delamartinez claims she fears for the safety of her family. “Perhaps Minnesota is [...]
NCAA: Allums, trans athletes, can have surgery
While many have believed that a transgender female-to-male athlete cannot have gender-reassignment surgery and still play women’s sports, the NCAA has clarified that there is nothing preventing those athletes from doing so: As discussions continue and after further review of this topic at the national office, generally speaking a female who wants to be socially [...]