{"id":39146,"date":"2011-01-04T16:05:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=39146"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:21","slug":"sfgn-keelin-godsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/01\/04\/sfgn-keelin-godsey\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida Gay News profiles hammer champ Keelin Godsey '06"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Florida Gay News<\/em><\/a> columnist Dan Woog profiles two-time NCAA champion<\/a> hammer thrower Keelin Godsey ’06, a biological woman who since senior year at Bates has lived as a transgender male.<\/p>\n

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Woog chronicles Godsey’s experiences at Bates, noting how Erica Rand, a professor of art and visual culture and women and gender studies, helped Godsey approach College officials about being identified as a transgender <\/a>male while competing on the women’s track team. (Godsey has never had hormone treatment or gender reassignment surgery, thus by NCAA rule competed as a woman, and continues to compete as a woman.)<\/p>\n

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In turn, Godsey says that Bates track and field coach Jay Hartshorn “was awesome. She asked all kinds of questions about how she could support me. She made sure I didn\u2019t have to deal with any intrusions. She helped me talk to the team, and always stood up for me.”<\/p>\n

And, Keelin adds, “she never messed up my pronouns.”<\/p>\n

Godsey, who continues to compete at the upper levels of U.S. track and field, says “it’s a hard choice not to transition.” But for now, “I want to go as far as I can competitively.” View story from the South Florida Gay News<\/em>, Jan. 3, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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