A man was kicked off his basketball team in Kissimmee, Florida because he was HIV positive.

Dakota Basinger, 21, wrote on his Facebook page that he found out about his diagnosis a week ago, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

Basinger was participating in the Kissimmee sponsored Florida Dream Sports league playoffs on Sunday when a city employee pulled him out of the game. The employee asked Basinger if he was HIV positive, to which Basinger replied he was. The employee told him he would have to stop playing.

"I feel humiliated and discriminated against," Basinger told the Orlando Sentinel. "I felt horrible walking out of that gym."

Basinger's mother, Lisa Basinger, was equally outraged about what happened.

"I couldn't believe it," Lisa Basinger told the newspaper. "I explained to them that they needed to educate themselves on HIV and that you cannot transmit HIV through spit or casual contact."

Dakota Basinger, who is also a local rapper, said he contracted the disease by having unprotected sex with another man, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV spreads through the exchange of blood, semen and vaginal fluids, and not through contact with saliva or sweat.

HIV can also spread through "contact between broken skin, wounds, or mucous membranes," however those cases are "extremely rare."  

Arin Thrower, a spokeswoman for the city, said in a statement to the newspaper that the city employee "acted independently and without supervisor approval" when he told Dakota he could never play again.

"The city has taken corrective action to ensure this does not happen in the future," Thrower said in the statement. The employee still works for the city "as of right now," and Dakota will be allowed back on the league's team when games start again, the Orlando Sentinel reported.