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First Openly Transsexual Basketball Player Hoops for the NCAA

Kye Allums makes history today becoming the first out transgendered person playing Division 1 NCAA basketball.
According to Outsports, Allums was born a female, but chose to identify herself as a boy. But for Allums, choosing the gender he wanted to have wasn’t always easy.
“I’ve always felt most comfortable dressing like a boy, but my mom would take all of my clothes from me and she’d force me to wear girl clothes. I’d bring sweats and basketball shorts and put them in my backpack. I’d just change every day when I got to school, and I had to change back before I went home. It was annoying, but it was the only way I could go to school.”
Allums recalls a text he received from his mom. She wrote, “Who you do think you are, young lady?” Jezebel says this sparked an epiphany with Allums. “I realized I wasn’t a young lady at all.”
The reaction to Allums becoming a man by his female teammates wasn’t received so well in the beginning. But one of Allums’ teammates says they eventually came around.
“We were all just talking, a bunch of teammates, and he said that he’s a guy. At first I didn’t understand, and then he explained that sex is how you’re born and gender is how you identify yourself. Then I started to understand.”
While family, friends, and teammates, accepted him, Allums wondered what his coach Mike Bozeman would think. Allums seemed surprised by Bozeman’s final thoughts. “Why would you think I wouldn’t have your back? I’ve had your back through everything. Our relationship has grown from nothing to this, and now you think I’d just turn my back on you because you told me this? No. I love you and I’ll always be here for you.”
Jezebel says there are guidelines for trans athlete participation—one including hormone therapy. But Allums won’t be doing that in order to continue playing on the women’s team. Guidelines also specifically state, “Transgender young people have the same right to participate and benefit from the positive aspects of athletics as other students do.”
Allums journey to being who he wants to be is an astounding example to youth struggling with identity in Black America. Hats off to the NCAA for standing up for their player’s right to choose.

Terry McMillian Confirms “Waiting to Exhale” Sequel

Terry McMiliian’s long anticipated follow-up to her bestselling 1992 Waiting to Exhale novel, Getting to Happy, is available on bookshelves everywhere. Now the brilliant writer, and favorite aunt in our head, confirms that her new literary offering will indeed have a film adaptation, giving the popular “Waiting to Exhale” movie a sequel.Getting to Happy has been optioned by the 20th Century Fox production team behind the “Waiting to Exhale” blockbuster that starred Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon. McMillian reveals that she has already finished the script and shooting could be begin as early as next year. What’s even more exciting is that the famed writer dishes that the film will likely have the same cast, three already confirmed!

OMG! WHEN SHE NAMED THIS MOVIE "WAITING TO EXHALE" I DIN'T THINK LITERARY. WE BEEN WAITING FOR ALMOST 10 DAMN YEARS TO SEE THE SEQUEL TO THIS MOVIE , I WAS JUST A LITTLE KID WHEN THE 1ST PART CAME OUT, AND I GUESS I'M GOING TO BE OLD & MARRIED WITH CHILDREN IF SHE EVER THINK ABOUT PUTTING OUT A 3RD PART TO "WAITING TO EXHALE". BUT AT THE SAME I HAVE TO BE HONEST THAT I'M SCARED FOR MY MOM TO WATCH THE SEQUEL, CAUSE SHE ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF & EVERYONE ELSE THAT THE MOVIE "WAITING TO EXHALE" IS THE REASON SHE CUT HER HAIR BALD AND THAT THE MOVIE MAD HER DO THAT. RIDICULOUS! JUST IMAGINE WHAT THE SEQUEL WILL MAKE HER DO, ALL WE CAN DO IS SIT BACK AND WATCH OUT FOR THE SEQUEL & WHAT MY MOM DOES NEXT.