Wait until the ACLU initiates a Title 9-type lawsuit to protect women's athletics at the professional level. God help us! Mark my words -- using the successful suit against the PGA by disabled golfer Casey Martin as a basis, there will someday be a suit by a female athlete that says the rules of a sport discriminate against women, and that accommodations must be allowed to bring women into men's pro leagues.
How can I say such a thing? Here's how: The Martin case established for the first time that federal law trumps the established rules of a sport if they are found to be discriminatory.
Martin, born with a congenital condition that doesn't allow him to walk long distances, used a golf cart to get to where he hit the ball. The PGA discriminated against Martin, they said, because their rules said that in all but uncommon specified cases, the game of professional golf is about hitting the ball and walking to it, hitting it again, and walking to it, until the ball goes into the hole.
The SCOTUS said, "No, PGA, professional golf is (or should be) ONLY about hitting the ball," and that it was wrong not to allow Martin do drive to it.
It's already happening. Golf is ripe for this ploy. The Casey Martin case is almost certainly the precedent that their attorneys will use. On another front, the Anika Sorenstam sponsor's exemption for a men's event earlier this year was another trial balloon, but next time she'll come back and want some accommodation that will make her more competitive. I suspect a single tournament with some liberal sponsor will actually change the rules for this to occur. Soon thereafter the rule changes will be legally demanded by female players.
Incrementalism is used very effectively by the liberals to change almost everything. One law at a time is their tact. It's certainly worked for the gay and affirmative action agendas. The liberals, alternatively, fight tooth and nail against incremental actions by conservatives; for example, fighting informed consent laws as a way to maintain a woman's right to choose.
Even though it is not in our nature, conservatives need to learn incrementalism as a strategy for change. The liberal agendas are running roughshod over conservative agendas because conservatives tend to be too principled and unwilling to accept incremental changes toward their ideals.