Disc Pro Golf Tour - upholding fairness for women

[SabrinaThwaite]

Disc Pro Golf Tour (DGPT) has decided to cancel events in states where transwomen can challenge not being allowed to enter the Female Professional Open category.

These FPO events will be rescheduled in different states to allow the division to remain female only.

“Competitive fairness is the underpinning of the Disc Golf Pro Tour, the professional disc golf industry, and all of elite, competitive sport worldwide. The DGPT is committed to the future of the FPO division, and in order to protect competitive fairness for the division, these changes are necessary at this time. We will not waiver on the PDGA Gender Eligibility Policy as we’ve adopted it for the FPO division,” said Jeff Spring, DGPT CEO and Tour Director. “This said, I also want to affirm the concept that you can simultaneously respect and support transgender people and support competitive fairness for the FPO division. These are not mutually exclusive concepts, and the DGPT will continue to show respect to all people involved while thinking creatively about long-term solutions for this challenging issue.”

https://www.dgpt.com/announcements/fpo-update/

Good for them. It's another step towards protecting women's sport.

Good for them. But the lengths they are having to go to to ensure fairness for female competitors! And all because some transwomen insist on being validated above all else. Proves they don't really care about the sport, not really.

There’s money involved on top of the validation - Ryan won $32k in the FPO division last year.

Brilliant news, the dominoes are falling.

It’s great how the TRAs are trying to spin this - “In the most recent instance of groups claiming to "protect women" causing harm to them in a bid to discriminate against transgender individuals, the Disc Golf Pro Tour has made the controversial decision to cancel five of its events”.

But the events are planned to be rescheduled in states where males can be excluded from the female division.

It’s almost like the TRAs have had an irony meter bypass.

Great news!

Great news.

The male individual who has been winning all that prize money will be very pissed off. That is a bonus.

Good! Men don't belong in women's sports!
but it will never happen they said.
I remember that reply to so much of what we are fighting now...