U.S.-based football player Kumi Yokoyama comes out as transgender

Japanese forward Kumi Yokoyama, who plays for the Washington Spirit in the U.S.-based National Women's Soccer League, has come out as transgender in a YouTube video."In the future, I want to quit soccer and live as a man," the 27-year-old said in a 19-minute video published on fellow Japanese player Yuki Nagasato's YouTube channel on Saturday.Women's World Cup winner Nagasato played with an amateur men's club before she joined NWSL expansion team Racing Louisville FC. In the video, Nagasato said Yokoyama approached her and asked to use her platform to come out publicly."More people in Japan…READ FULL ARTICLE