Gabrielle Ludwig is a name few outside this locker room know. They don't know she is 50 and last played a college basketball game in 1980 – as a man.

Gabrielle Ludwig, a 6-foot-6-inch transsexual player on Mission College's women's basketball squad, speaks with teammate Felicia Anderson, left, after practice on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, in Santa ...

A year ago, Gabrielle Ludwig often found herself the target of outrage. AP Photo/Noah Berger "And he just took it," Ludwig said of her coach. "He told him, 'I don't care if she's a transsexual.

Her name is Gabrielle Ludwig. Biologically a man, born Robert John Ludwig, ex-Navy sailor declared himself a woman in his 40 s. At 50 years old, measuring 6’ 8”, ...

Gabrielle Ludwig, a 6-foot-6-inch transsexual player on Mission College's women's basketball squad, made sports history this month as a basketball player at a Northern California community college.

Gabrielle Ludwig is a trans woman who played on a college sports team a decade ago. Now she is being featured in Republican ads that have upended her life. November 5, 2024 ...

When Gabrielle Ludwig made her women's college basketball debut in early December, her Mission College (Calif.) team's season became unlike any in the history of college basketball.

Gabrielle Ludwig, a 6-foot-6-inch transsexual player on Mission College's women's basketball squad, reflects on her return to college ball on Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, in Santa Clara, Calif. Gabrielle ...

Gabrielle Ludwig was doing chores around the house a month or so ago when her phone rang. A friend from Ohio told Ludwig she had been watching reruns of “Law and Order” or “NCIS” when a ...