Kye Allums

Kye Allums (born October 23, 1989) is an American 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. Allums is a transgender advocate, public speaker, artist, and mentor to LGBT youth.

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. Allums's teammates called him "Kay-Kay". He came out as a trans man in 2010. He told sports website Outsports, "my biological sex is female, which makes me a transgender male." He graduated from George Washington University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.

In 2014, Allums told the Huffington Post that he had attempted suicide in 2011 after receiving transphobic harassment due to an article written about him by ESPN.

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Advocacy Allums began traveling around the country to talk about life as a transgender person. He gives advice on confronting bullies when being trans.

He starred in Laverne Cox's documentary The T Word.

Allums produced a project called "I Am Enough", which encourages other LGBTQ individuals to come out and talk about their experiences. The project allows individuals to submit their stories, thereby showing people who share the same issues that they are not alone.

In 2015, he was inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.

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