50-year-old transsexual ‘woman’ makes college basketball debut: video
SAN PABLO, CA, December 10, 2012, – Gabrielle Ludwig is not like any other woman on the basketball courts, or in the locker rooms , in Santa Clara Community College’s junior team. Gabrielle is a foot taller than every other player and has significantly more upper body strength. Thats because the 50-year-old player was born Robert John Ludwig, a man. He still bears the tattoos of his service in Operation Desert Storm . This turn at college basketball is his second. His first stint in 1980 was as a man at Nassau Community College . Robert John "Gabrielle" Ludwig with his teammates. After his sex change operation this summer he petitioned to change his birth certificate’s sex from male to female. That edit allowed his previous sports history to be wiped off his record. Ludwig is now eligible to play for two full years. Even at twice his opponents’ age, Ludwig cuts an imposing figure at 6’8” and 220 pounds, a fact not lost on his coach – or