WASHINGTON - The openly transgender member of George Washington, said women's basketball team whose innovative season was shortened by a pair of concussions, he is jouerai in his senior year.
The school announced that Kye Allums "decided that it is in its interest no longer participate in intercollegiate athletics."
Jacquelyn MartinKye Allums "decided that it is in its interest no longer participate in intercollegiate athletics," said GW.Allums "I only came to this conclusion", said in a statement published by the University, and I thank the athletic department for respecting my wishes. ?
The statement offered more details, although GW said that allums enrolled in classes for the fall semester. Allums not immediately responded to a request by email for an interview Wednesday.
Allums made international headlines when he announced before the start of the season in November that he preferred to be known as a man. He said it was to the coast of hormonal treatment and sex reassignment surgery so that he could continue to play in the women's team.
Made disclosure Allums instant model for transgender people. It receives messages of those who said they were proud of him and inspired by him. His presence in court during the whole season would raise his profile even more and contribute by itself to tell his story.
But he suffered two concussions in the season and played only eight games. He told Associated Press in March, he suffered a total of eight concussions, that he had memory problems and that it was not clear if he would be cleared medically to play his senior season. He said doctors told him that be it a football player, his career would be certainly more.
"I am a fighter." "I still try to return," he said at the time. "I really want to come back and play."
"I'll just be trying to make a any difference in the world," he said in March when asked what he would do if he could play again. "Try to enter the school grad and looking forward to my life."
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