| Intro | American basketball player |
| Is |
Athlete Basketball player |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Sports |
| Gender | transgender male, female |
| Birth | 23 October 1989 |
| Age: | 30 years |
Kye Allums (born October 23, 1989) is a former college basketball player at for the George Washington Colonials women’s basketball team of George Washington University (GWU) and a transgender pioneer.
He is now a transgender advocate, public speaker, artist, and mentor to LGBT youth. In 2010, Allums, a trans man, became the first openly transgender NCAA Division I college athlete.
Allums graduated from Centennial High School in Circle Pines, Minnesota. He played three seasons as a guard on the women’s team at GWU. In May 2011, it was reported that Allums decided to leave the GWU basketball team.
Personal life
Kye Allums’s teammates would call him Kay-Kay. Allums began telling people to call him Kye. Allums is of African American descent. Kye Allums came out in 2010, while he was playing for the George Washington University’s women’s basketball team. Allums told sports website outsports.com, “My biological sex is female, which makes me a transgender male.”.
In 2011, he graduated from The George Washington University and with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts.
In 2014, Allums revealed that he attempted suicide after ESPN came out with his story.
George Washington statistics
| Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
| FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
| RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
| BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
| Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09 | George Washington | 11 | 35 | 28.6 | 18.8 | 38.1 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 3.2 |
| 2009-10 | George Washington | 26 | 193 | 37.8 | 37.1 | 75.0 | 4.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 7.4 |
| 2010-11 | George Washington | 8 | 54 | 47.4 | 30.0 | 63.2 | 3.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 6.8 |
| Career | George Washington | 45 | 282 | 37.7 | 32.7 | 62.5 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 6.3 |
Career
Allums began traveling around the country to talk about life being transgender. He travels around to different high schools, colleges and universities to discuss the transgender community and how it is possible to be transgender and play on a team. Allums gives advice on confronting bullies when being trans.
He starred in Laverne Cox’s documentary, called The T Word.The documentary follows young transgender individuals and explains what they go through being young and transgender.
Kye produced a project called “I Am Enough”, which allows other LGBTQ individuals to come out and talk about their experiences. The project allows individuals to submit their stories and by doing so, it allows people with the same issues know that they are not alone. Allums now has his own website called www.kyeallums.com, where people can keep updated with his life.
In 2015, he was inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.
Published work
Allums published his own book called Who am I, that features poems and letters he wrote about his parents and himself.