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LPGA to change gender requirement
fanhouse ^ | Today | GONZALEZ

Posted on 12/02/2010 11:13:30 AM PST by jessduntno

ORLANDO, Fla. -LPGA players have voted to allow transgender players to compete on tour in response to a lawsuit filed by a California woman who had her sex changed five years ago.

The players voted to remove the "female at birth" requirement from the tour's constitution at a year-end meeting at the LPGA Tour Championship, commissioner Michael Whan said. He said steps will be taken in the coming weeks to make the change.

Lana Lawless, a former police officer who had the sex change operation, filed the federal lawsuit in San Francisco in October claiming the "female at birth" requirement violated California's civil rights law. The 57-year-old Lawless wanted to prevent the LPGA from conducting tournaments in the state until it changed its policy and was seeking unspecified damages.

Lawless also sued three tour sponsors and the Long Drivers of America, which followed the LPGA policy. Lawless won the annual women's long-drive golf championship in 2008 with a 254-yard drive, but was barred from competing this year after organizers adopted the LPGA's gender rules.

"I think it is a major civil rights victory," Christopher Dolan, an attorney for Lawless, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday. "We are pleased that the LPGA has voted to end this archaic and outdated policy."

Dolan cautioned that the final changes are not expected for a couple weeks. But he was optimistic the LPGA's amended policy would allow complete access for transgenders.

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To: jessduntno

Sodom and Gomorrah take another step forward.


41 posted on 12/02/2010 11:45:51 AM PST by donna (Synonyms: Feminism, Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Islam ism)
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To: jessduntno

'nuf said.

42 posted on 12/02/2010 11:47:34 AM PST by Only1choice____Freedom (FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
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To: colorado tanker

They are fools falling for Marxist ideology that says men and women are not different—they are equal. It is to open up homosexual marriage and destroy children—remove their natural right to be raised by a biological mother and father. It is to eliminate Christianity and the natural family—condition children into seeing them as “evil” and haters.

It is to outlaw thought that differs from their paradigm (Atheism/pagan) that outlaws moral absolutes and makes relativism rule—anything that feels “good” do it.

My philosophy professor told me many years ago that relativism always leads to a world of chaos and the need for a master......obambi’s wet dream.


43 posted on 12/02/2010 11:47:59 AM PST by savagesusie
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To: WayneS

If an archeologist found his skeleton years later, he would classify the subject as male.


44 posted on 12/02/2010 11:49:40 AM PST by MNDude (And we were SO close to acheiving utopia)
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To: jessduntno

Remember the Johnny Carson episode where Raquel Welch pets her pussy? I think it was Arnold Palmer that was also a guest and referenced his putter standing up?


45 posted on 12/02/2010 11:50:30 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Only1choice____Freedom

Mark Twian once penned......it is considered bad favor to pick up a lost golf ball while it’s still rollin


46 posted on 12/02/2010 11:51:22 AM PST by advertising guy (did you know you can type stuff in here ?)
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To: GeronL

Any one who has there proverbial junk voluntarily hacked off is not a woman to me.


47 posted on 12/02/2010 11:51:32 AM PST by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: MNDude

If Bill Clinton found her remains, he’d say she was “kinda hot”


48 posted on 12/02/2010 11:51:49 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Only1choice____Freedom
When they are gone, they are long gone....


49 posted on 12/02/2010 11:52:39 AM PST by jessduntno (TSA: "Because screwing you with your pants ON just wasn't enough.")
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To: jessduntno

Remember when our society wasn’t constantly being disrupted by mentally ill activists?


50 posted on 12/02/2010 11:54:34 AM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: blackdog

Johnny Carson would say that this guy went to the Slauson cutoff ... and cut off his Slauson!


51 posted on 12/02/2010 11:55:08 AM PST by jessduntno (TSA: "Because screwing you with your pants ON just wasn't enough.")
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To: jessduntno

CSFOFL!!!!!..........


52 posted on 12/02/2010 11:56:05 AM PST by blackdog
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To: Hacklehead

“Remember when our society wasn’t constantly being disrupted by mentally ill activists?”

I don’t know ... “Progressives” have been with us a long time ... but I know what you mean.


53 posted on 12/02/2010 11:56:49 AM PST by jessduntno (TSA: "Because screwing you with your pants ON just wasn't enough.")
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To: jessduntno
It took the LPGA 40 years to catch up to tennis.

54 posted on 12/02/2010 12:02:31 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: jessduntno

Lopped
Penis
Golf
Association


55 posted on 12/02/2010 12:21:26 PM PST by kik5150
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To: oh8eleven

Wasn’t that Dr. Renee’ Richards?


56 posted on 12/02/2010 12:24:41 PM PST by Froggie
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To: Froggie

Next thing you know women will want to play on the PGA tour....ah, Nevermind!


57 posted on 12/02/2010 12:25:30 PM PST by Froggie
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To: jessduntno

“Lawless won the annual women’s long-drive golf championship in 2008 with a 254-yard drive.”

This is a joke. At my local municirpal golf course there was a 16 year old girl who blasted a drive 285+ yards on a 280 yard par 4. This is not unusual for kids who are pretty good.

The women pros are at 280 yards. Good luck to “Lana” if she tries to play against real women and girl golfers. She will get whopped badly.


58 posted on 12/02/2010 12:25:38 PM PST by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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To: Froggie

One and the same.


59 posted on 12/02/2010 12:26:56 PM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: jessduntno

The PGA has no sex-based exclusion policy.


60 posted on 12/02/2010 12:33:25 PM PST by HIDEK6
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