Umpire's mask
notes: label: Description
content: Sometimes gender isn’t revealed at birth. Ryan was born intersex. Growing up, he was called by a name traditionally given to girls. But he adopted his name because he felt he possessed “a girl body and a boy brain.” He never performed activities expected of a girl, which made him an outcast in his social circles. Sports became an important outlet for self-expression, especially softball. In 2014, after decades of struggling with his gender identity, he legally changed his name to Ryan and transitioned to male. Ryan’s story shows how checking boxes as male or female is incredibly limited. Those boxes could never fully capture the complex realities of one’s gender and sexuality.
label: Description
content: This umpire's mask is made of gray powder coated ferrous metal (probably steel), aluminum, chrome plated ferrous metal screws and brackets, chrome plated non ferrous metal springs, black cloth straps, black Velcro, a black, silver and red Logo patch, black vinyl covered face pads and small plastic logo parts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ryan E.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0265.01
label: accession number
content: 2018.0265
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0265.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mask
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, metal, plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: powder coated steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 11 in x 5 1/4 in; 33.02 cm x 27.94 cm x 13.335 cm