This story is a tad bit confusing so try to follow along.
Kye by birth is a girl.
But Kye wants to be a guy and wants people to refer to her as a him.
Are you following so far?
Because of NCAA regulations, Allums can’t stay on the women basketball team if she/he has a surgery to become ummm all-man, but that hasn’t stopped her/him from identifying herself as a man.
I will let the New York Daily News pick up the rest of the story.
Allums, 20, a self-described tomboy from a small town in Minnesota, told the website he started feeling like an outsider during middle school when he noticed he didn’t act like many of the other girls.
He spent a year trying to be more feminine, and when that failed to feel right, he identified as a lesbian.
But even that wasn’t a natural fit for Allums, who says he realized his true identity during his freshman year of college.
By sophomore year, he was asking people to call him by male pronouns.
Due to NCAA regulations, Allums can’t undergo surgery or take hormones if he wants to continue on the women’s basketball team. But he identifies as a male, even if he has the same physical attributes of a female.
The NCAA is looking at how to handle the locker room and other issue that may be sensitive for Allums due to his gender identity.
“The only thing I can’t do is take testosterone,” Allums said. “And I don’t need that anyway. I probably naturally have more than some of the guys on the guys’ team. If I get surgery, it doesn’t affect my play, it doesn’t enhance anything, I’m just taking something off my body, like if I lost a finger.”
Not exactly like losing a finger, but I digress.