First and foremost, you're white. Even if you had been around in the US during the Jim Crow era, you never would've had to worry about which water fountain to use. It is disingenuous at best for you to use that analogy in this, and you would rightly be run up the flagpole for it, if you made it in a more public manner. I'll give you a minor amount of leeway here, because you aren't from the US so you may not fully appreciate the harm you do as a white person claiming the struggles black people had back then as your own, but you should never, EVER use that as part of your rhetoric again, if it never applied to you.
You spend a lot of your comment speaking of what would, essentially, be the emotional fallout to us from the decision. That's a bit disingenuous, because you know for a fact (if for no other reason that the constant, loud, and aggressive hate the PDGA has done nothing effective to address in its membership) that nobody in this discussion cares how it will impact us in any way, least of all how it will make us feel.
No offense, but don't use your lack of cashing to minimize the effect of a ban on those who have done their best to make competitive disc golf their career.
Your information on that is 100% specific to you, and your personal disc golf career, yet you word it as if this is how all trans women would feel. Do we all want to do better? Sure, that's why we do field work and putting practice. But we pay our dues and play tournaments because we want to compete, and have a chance at winning/. There is zero purpose to playing in tournaments, if our registration fee is guaranteed to be a donation to people we never have a chance at beating, and we'd never make it to the DGPT if we can't play well enough to be competitive in our division, no matter how hard we work at improving. A trans woman winning 2 high profile events in one year isn't representative of that sort of effect on the FPO division, but it would be a 100% certainty for any trans woman who has medically transitioned, in MPO.
A ban would be the PDGA ham fistedly trying to prevent the hypothetical issue cis women being able to make a living playing disc golf, by guaranteeing no trans woman can ever make a living playing disc golf, ever again. Yes, it would other us, yes it would open the PDGA up to title IX fights in court in the US, yes it would violate laws in states or countries where competition bans have been made illegal - but pragmatically, this effect is the only one that actually holds any more impact than we, as "out" trans women, face every single day in the workforce, or when we walk out in public - and it holds a HUGE one for someone like Natalie who, unlike you, has actually been able to support herself to some degree with her winnings. It sends a message to every trans woman who has a passion for disc golf, and would love to compete, that the most they can ever compete for is a few discs from the fly mart, which they can hope to sell for a couple hundred bucks, if it was a pretty big tournament.
The disconnect between your view, and the reality of the problem, is why the trans disc golf community has no faith in the BoD. You should be keenly aware of the impacts that matter most immediately in this discussion - yet you're talking about them as if they're something to be shrugged off, because you're more concerned about something you already have to deal with in every other facet of your day to day life. We know that the PDGA would never feel the loss of our membership and tournament fees, because of how few of us there are right now, so there's ZERO reason for us to believe the PDGA will do right by us, because angry, bigoted cis men are so much louder, and more numerous (and thus pay you so much more money) than we will ever be - and the complete SILENCE from the PDGA about doing anything substantive to the abusive rhetoric being thrown at us every day among the player base speaks more loudly than any feigned reassurance from a board member ever could.
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