Posted on 05/14/2023 7:39:33 PM PDT by NetAddicted
The Disc Golf Pro Tour was pushed into the spotlight over the weekend after Natalie Ryan, a transgender female competitor, saw her chances of possibly winning a California tournament disappear due to an appeal of the court ruling.
The Professional Disc Golf Association tightened its rules on transgender participation in December, which would have kept Ryan out of the women’s division.
She filed a discrimination lawsuit in February, saying the tour’s decision was based on “prejudice,” according to OutSports.
On Thursday, US District Judge Troy L. Nunley granted Ryan a temporary restraining order to allow her to play.
“It appears there was an intentional act, the creation of a policy, that excludes individuals based on their protected status as transgender women,” Nunley wrote in his decision, according to OutSports. “The Court makes no determinations as to whether this is sufficient to actually establish intentional discrimination, but it raises serious questions.”
The PDGA’s rules state a transgender female may play in the women’s division if they meet one of the criteria laid out – have under 2nmol/L for two years or have had a “medical transition during Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later” and “the player must also continuously maintain a total testosterone level in serum below 2.0 nmol/L. Nunley took exception to the transition part of the criteria.
“This section appears to directly target an individual’s sex and gender by creating a temporal line when one must transition,” Nunley wrote....
On Friday, the tour filed an appeal of the ruling and won after Ryan had already completed the first round....
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“Natalie” is just a man pretending to be a woman!
Frisbee golf.
“The best woman for the job is a man”
I don’t know how ‘feminists’ don’t find that offensive.
It’s golf played with frisbees (although they have become very specialized). It’s actually pretty interesting. I happened across videos of it after being laid off for covid. A channel I particularly liked was jomezpro.
You golf swing a Frisbee?
These stupid stories are so hard to read, when they say transgender woman, do they mean transvestite?
Transgender=Fake. Transgender woman = fake woman.
They throw various discs from a “tee box” towards a “goal” which is a basket like device. Some of the holes are through the woods and the players have to curve the disc around obstacles. There are out of bounds areas like golf, and the scoring is the same.
“Natalie” is also a cheater … as well as a seriously mentally ill man.
NO SUCH THING AS TRANSGENDER. That is all! 😁🤔
Anytime the word “transgender” precedes a gender, it’s actually the opposite gender.
I watched some disc golfers playing in the mountains. It was pretty cool how they curved the disc around trees at long distances.
Dude needs to compete with the men. Because he is a man, no matter how they slice it.
“You golf swing a Frisbee”?
Yeah, you should see the drivers and 9 irons.
Google it.
“Natalie” is also a cheater …”
Thank you for bringing that up. You’re the first person that I’ve seen mention that fact. It ‘is’ cheating and when they “win” they are stealing. It is theft, among other bad things.
Can we at least have some honesty in headlines and content here on FR and elsewhere in the news? A mentally ill man, Mr. Ryan, pretending to be a female, was banned from disc golf. Hopefully he instead gets committed for some well needed medical treatment.
Yeah just a prickless man.
“To all the trans folks out there that love this sport as much as I do, I’m here for you, we all deserve better.”
Let’s all get together in a phone booth for coffee.
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