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Kye Allums, a junior guard for the women’s basketball team at George Washington University, is the first publicly transgender person to play NCAA Division I college basketball. Allums changed his name from Kay-Kay earlier this year. A Minnesota native, he will make a very significant homecoming this month.

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The Olympic ideal is to set aside disagreements every four years, but one division has some LGBT activists calling for certain countries to be expelled.

George Washington University's Kye Allums, the first openly transgender basketball player in women's NCAA Division I history, missed three games due to a concussion but was back on the court Sunday.

The antigay group the National Organization for Marriage has entered the political fray in California with a new Spanish-language ad attacking Sen.Barbara Boxer as a "knee-jerk, strident partisan who ignores the values of her constituents in order to practice bitterly divisive politics." 

The first transgender man to play NCAA Division I basketball says he's ready to move on from the sport, and will not play during his senior year. George Washington University announced Thursday that Kye Allums "has decided that it is in his best interest to no longer participate in intercollegiate athletics."

The 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division soldiers at Fort Campbell, KY will be testing out a new prototype for a more woman-friendly protective vest. To date, 14 percent of active duty troops are female, according to Stars and Stripes, but they have been using body armor designed specifically for men.

The mother of Kye Allums, a basketball player for George Washington University women's team, said that the school is preventing her son from playing despite medical clearance and stifling talk about his being the first openly transgender person to play NCAA Division I basketball.

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Despite Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy's insistence that he is not antigay and his company has "no agenda against anyone", Equality Matters has tracked more than $1 million in donations from Chick-fil-A's charitable division to antigay organizations, including some that promote and fund ex-gay and reparative therapies.

After the antigay National Organization for Marriage was handed four stinging defeats Tuesday, with voters endorsing marriage equality in three states and shutting down a divisive ban in another, the group is reeling. The American Independent got wind of an emergency conference call on Thursday in which the group and its leader, Brian Brown, plotted their next moves.

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg looks forward to Friday’s marriage equality victory translating into big business for the state. The city's tourism division, NYC & Company, "is working to create a multichannel, global communications and marketing campaign — NYC I DO — to promote the vibrancy and attractiveness of the five boroughs as a gay weddings destination," said Kimberly Spell, the agency's chief spokeswoman.

A seemingly impossible full court shot was attempted, and MADE, during a NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) division 1 women’s basketball game between The University of the Cumberlands and Campbellsville University on Saturday evening in Kentucky. Towards the end of the first half, with the remaining second ticking off the clock, Senior Stephanie Quattrociocchi attempted a 86-footer and nailed it.  3 points please, thank you! 

Kye Allums, believed to be the first transgender athlete to play NCAA Division 1 basketball, sat down with the press in advance of making his debut on the court for George Washington University later this month. Coaches for the team talked with NCAA officials, who said that as long as Kye doesn’t take hormones or undergo sex reassignment surgery while playing, he will be allowed to continue. Watch the video here.

Multiple concussions and head injuries were the reason George Washington University guard Kye Allums's season was cut short. Allums, a guard and the first openly transgender man to play on a NCAA Division I women's team, said that he has endured eight concussions in his overall career, suffering three alone this season. While Allums's time at GWU was full of career highs, this season was tough on him.