Transwomen regain right to play in female disc golf

[ZeldaFighter]

The governing body couldn't afford the litigation so they settled.

discgolf.ultiworld.com/2023/12/22/in-natalie-ryan-settlement-pdga-drops-pre-puberty-transition-rule-for-transgender-women/

I am picturing you looking furious, in your Suffragette team strip!

I feel fairly sure that I would have gone along with this without protesting, if I'd known it was happening in my sport. I discovered sport at University. I was very young, very compliant, very ambitious, very apolitical and was taught to do what the coach said. My best scores were for my 'attitude', ie obedience and willingness to hurt myself. I even read books where the message was 'do what the coach says without question'. There's a reason young people doing sport are so vulnerable to sexual abuse. If I'd been told 'this is Charlie, she transitioned, isn't it brilliant that she competes with us now, oh and BTW there are lots of horrible people who would attack her if they knew she was here, it's your job to protect her' i wouldn't have said a thing. A transwoman did compete in our headline student event in 2015 long after i was there, and not one of those women in their team or the opposing team spoke out.

I'm glad others wouldn't have been so weak but I don't blame very young women growing up now for not protesting.

This.

There is no limit to the fantasy. There are no boundaries or capacity for reality or care about impact on others. 'I want' is the deity being served.

So we're down to institutional and fundamental misogyny that believes in indulging men at all costs and that it's 'fair' to take from women. Even when what you're doing is indulging men that you 'believe' that they are women if they say so.

It means sadly, society realising, when you are dealing with people with these issues, kindness is seen as weakness, and an inch given through good intentions results in an immediate campaign grab for the next ten yards. And realising that you cannot witter out loud and wag flags about sex not being a thing while demonstrating with actions your deep belief that sex is fixed and binary and people with penises are of supreme importance over people born without. Because like a six foot bearded person on a woman's podium, the lie is front and centre.

There are no boundaries or capacity for reality or care about impact on others. 'I want' is the deity being served.

That's certainly the impression I've formed of the whole mess.