LPGA to Change Gender Requirement
 

Sick! Sex change now being recognized in sports. Imagine how this might change sports like women's basketball.

"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"

“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 “We are pleased that the LPGA has voted to end this archaic and outdated policy.”

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/new...ga-transgender

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Female at birth? Do the men have a, Male at birth requirement?

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Are you serious?

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Yup. Can't compete with the guys? Snip it and clip it and compete with the gals.

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Read my edit.

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It was probably put in there to prevent just this type of thing.

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Oh yes, it's going to be a HUGE change in the athletic world. This could turn the WNBA upside down. I know for sure that all the guys that aren't quite good enough to make it in the NBA are going to be racing down to their local sex-change surgeon so they can become a woman and a basketball star. I hear there's already a line forming.

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Wasn't there a case in this past Olympics where a runner was running with the women as a woman and they found out he was male?

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No, she was proven to be female. They put the poor girl through hell.

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=4409318

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I didn't know this is such a regular occurrence in golf, or any other sport. That they actually had that question.

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Always thought she was a woman or been a woman? Where in the article did it say she was proven to be a female?

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Thanks for the update!

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That report was from August 20.

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It's extremely rare...and the man/lady in question isn't very good.

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That's probably an older article. I just cited it for reference. The process of proof took over a year and it was inexcusable what they put the family through just because she won a race by a record amount. Her story was recently told on "Outside The Lines" on ESPN.

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That's just horrible.

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it was terrible. but the girl in this case also had some phyiology that was questionable. evidently all the parts were girl parts but at the genetic level it wasnt exactly clear?

good news for her she is cleared and can compete. but she did suffer unduely.

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Because she was too fast to be a girl? How long had she been competing before her gender was questioned?

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Here is a movie about this very subject. watch the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfGnspMWpUY