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The Trans Sporter Room Ep105 -- Taylor Edelmann: A Conversation With One Of The First

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This week's Trans Sporter Room continues our deeper look into trans athletes stories that many haven't heard, but need to hear. In 2011, the NCAA began their transgender student-athlete policies. That same year, a volleyball player at Division III Purchase College in New York stepped into their truth as a transgender man, and said that they want to play on the men's team in the sport -- After playing two years on the women's team. The NCAA provided a pathway, and Taylor Edelmann walked it, not only becoming a player, but also a team captain. Save a few articles his senior year, including one by Outsports, what happened largely flew under the radar. Edelmann was among the first. Karleigh Webb sat down with Edelmann in a far-reaching interview that looks back, but also looks at how making a piece of collegiate sports history as affected him as an LGBTQ health care advocate, husband and father. Also this week Jon Gruden's "Email-Gate", and how its an opportunity for the NFL's push to foster inclusion The fall