The transgender basketball player, Kye Allums, who revealed he was out on outsports.com, will no longer play for the George Washington women’s team.
The university issued a statement that Allums: “has decided that it is in his best interest to no longer participate in intercollegiate athletics.”
Allums made international headlines when he announced in November that he preferred to known as a man. He explained his gender best to USA Today:
“Yes, I am a male on a female team,” Allums said after practice. “And I want to be clear about this. I am a transgender male, which means feelings-wise, how it feels on the inside, I feel as if I should have been born male with male parts.
“But my biological sex is female, which makes me a transgender male.”
At the time, he stopped hormone treatments and gender-changing surgery so that he could continue to play for the women’s team, according to the Associated Press.
But after a disappointing season, he suffered two concussions early in the season, where he saw action in only eight games, he has decided to call it quits.
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