Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Trans In Sports

We have always been targeted in sports. Look at the trans masculine student in Texas who wanted to play on the men’s wrestling team but was forced by the state to play on the women’s team or the trans women athletes who ran track here in Connecticut and parents complained.
Alison Perkins on being a transgender woman working in golf
Sky Sports News
Last Updated: 17/07/18

"As a golf coach, people would come to me with a problem... but no one could give me any answers."

Alison Perkins will be working at The 147th Open at Carnoustie this week, as part of the PGA's Swing Zone team.

She's a highly respected coach, with over 20 years of experience teaching and training pupils of all ages at Wavendon Golf Centre in Buckinghamshire - but for a time, she stepped away from the course in order to concentrate on her own journey, as a transgender woman.
It is great that she has been accepted by the other golfers, but like most people they accept the person not the gender.

Here in Connecticut a friend who plays golf on the semi-pro level came to me all indignant with an email inviting her to a women’s golf tournament that was open to all “women born women.” She hit the ceiling, she emailed the head of the golf association here in Connecticut complaining about the tournament's email. They replied that it was not their policy and that they contacted the people running the tournament and had them resend the invitations saying it was open to “all women.”

Oh, and did I mention that she is a lesbian standing up for us?

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