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Kye Allums
Allums in 2014
Personal information
BornOctober 23, 1989 (1989-10-23) (age 36)
Career information
High schoolCentennial High School
CollegeGeorge Washington

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.[1][2][3][4]; in 2026, Allums announced that she had detransitioned and no longer identified as trans. Allums is a transgender advocate, public speaker, artist, and mentor to LGBT youth.

Personal life

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Allums graduated from Centennial High School in Circle Pines, Minnesota, United States. She played three seasons as a guard on the women's basketball team at George Washington University, the George Washington Colonials.[5] Allums's teammates called her "Kay-Kay".[2] Allums began telling people to call her "Kye".[6] She came out as a trans man in 2010.[7] Allums told sports website Outsports, "my biological sex is female, which makes me a transgender male."[2]

In May 2011, GWU announced that Allums had decided to leave the GWU basketball team.[8] She graduated from George Washington University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts.[9]

In 2014, Allums told the Huffington Post that she had attempted suicide in 2011 after receiving transphobic harassment due to an article written about her by ESPN.[10]

In September 2026, Allums stated on her personal Substack page that she was "no longer transgender" and had detransitioned.[11][12]

George Washington statistics

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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[13] 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

Advocacy

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After coming out as a trans man, Allums began traveling around the country to talk about life as a transgender person.[7] She visited high schools, colleges and universities to discuss the transgender community and how it is possible to be transgender and play on a team.[14] She gave advice on confronting bullies when being trans.[6]

She starred in Laverne Cox's documentary The T Word,[7] a film that follows young transgender individuals and explains what they go through.[15]

Allums produced a project called "I Am Enough", which encourages other LGBTQ individuals to come out and talk about their experiences.[16] The project allows individuals to submit their stories, thereby showing people who share the same issues that they are not alone.[17]

In 2015, she was inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame.[18]

Published work

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Allums published a book called Who Am I?, which features poems and letters she wrote about her parents and herself.[19]

References

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  1. ↑ "First transgender athlete to play in NCAA basketball". CNN. March 23, 2010. Archived from the original on October 13, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Brady, Erik (November 4, 2010). "Transgender male Kye Allums on the women's team at GW". USA Today. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  3. ↑ "LGBT History Month: Kye Allums, first openly transgender NCAA athlete". October 2011. Archived from the original on August 5, 2018. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  4. ↑ "21 Transgender People Who Influenced American Culture". Time Magazine. May 29, 2014. Archived from the original on August 5, 2016. Retrieved June 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Kye Allums". Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  6. 1 2 Moore, Elliott (February 19, 2013). "Kye Allums Discusses his Personal History as a Transgender Athlete". GLAAD. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 Steinmetz, Katy (October 28, 2014). "Meet The First Openly Transgender NCAA Division I Athlete". Time. Archived from the original on May 1, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Kye Allums Leaving Basketball". May 19, 2011. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  9. ↑ Allums, Kye. "About". kyeallums.com. Archived from the original on April 28, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  10. ↑ Nichols, JamesMichael (January 21, 2014). "Kye Allums, Trans Sports Star, Reveals He Wanted To Kill Himself After ESPN Profile". HuffPost. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  11. ↑ Zeigler, Cyd (September 11, 2026). "Kye Allums, the first NCAA Division I athlete to come out as trans, has detransitioned". Outsports. Retrieved September 15, 2026.
  12. ↑ Allums, Kye. "Day 0: W.T.F". Substack. Retrieved September 15, 2026.
  13. ↑ "NCAA® Career Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Archived from the original on May 11, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
  14. ↑ Allums, Kye. "Booking". Kyeallums.com. Archived from the original on April 28, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  15. ↑ Laverne Cox (host). "Laverne Cox Presents: 'The T word'" (Full Documentary).
  16. ↑ Allums, Kye. "Who am I?". kyeallums.com. Archived from the original on April 28, 2015. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
  17. ↑ Mase III, J (December 17, 2013). "Are You Enough? Kye Allums Thinks So". HuffPost. Archived from the original on October 7, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2022.
  18. ↑ Jim Buzinski (July 27, 2015). "9 inducted into National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame". Outsports. Archived from the original on December 8, 2018. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  19. ↑ Allums, Kye. "Who Am I?". www.amazon.com. Retrieved May 4, 2015.
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