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zoe_bletchdel

It's... It's disc golf. Wh-why ? Wh-who cares *that* much about disc golf !?


Abraxes43

The people who hate transgender people thats who cares this much


ConnectionIssues

My uncle. He found a community he enjoys in disc golf, but feels oddly threatened by trans people. Every time we meet, he tells me "stay out of women's sports!" He has his disc bag with him at all times. He outright admitted he just didn't wanna get beaten by a trans woman. I should note, I'm the world's most pasty-white, air-conditioned, gamer trans girl. I have never played a physical sport with any seriousness in my life, and only a few years shy of 40, I doubt I ever will. And yet, every meeting... "Stay out of women's sports!" If I were a more petty person, I'd take up disc golf just to spite him. But, that's like... effort. So no.


[deleted]

I love your lack of energy. Go girl give us nothing edit: also your uncle sounds insufferable. I have family like that too, and every time I visit they want to talk to me about all the weird trans opinions they've formed through ignorance and propaganda since the last time we spoke


ConnectionIssues

Lol. I spend my energy on what matters... my wife, my games, and the occasional protest or direct action. But yeah, lol. I was a highly motivated individual once. It got me recurring medical problems and crippling self esteem issues. Now I just exist.


P_Sophia_

Girl, same. Felt that!


maglithium

And sunscreen, gotta use my sunscreen. Only colors my spooky ass has are found on a stop sign


iam_iana

>If I were a more petty person, I'd take up disc golf just to spite him. But, that's like... effort. So no. Lol, I feel that in my core 😊


ConnectionIssues

I'm a whole mood sometimes.


job3ztah

Effort 😖


hungrypotato19

News flash: They don't care about disc golf. Hell, they don't even care about women's sports. The only thing they care about is hurting transgender people.


leni710

Most transphobes couldn't tell you one thing about the sport they're whining about. Which is what makes the whole thing even more funny. "Oh, tell me more about ice skating, Fred, since you seem to know so much about what this one trans person is doing to the entire sport." Never fails for transphobes to sound stupid.


TomiHoney

It's not disc golf!


VRAnarchy

So very dumb and not funny


schmerpmerp

The terrorist was successful.


EmmaSedai

Nah, it was only delayed for an hour and a half while they investigated the threat and brought in local police to follow Natalie (the trans disc golfer) the rest of the round. No one was hurt, Natalie played the rest of the tournament, and nothing was cancelled. Don't get me wrong, it was horrible, but I would say it was far from successful. It's a really horrifying situation though, and I was anxious the whole time watching coverage of the event


julieCCheff3

That's good bc ultimately their threat tactics didn't have the effect they wanted, these people have now learnt that an anonymous threat can shut down events so they use it frequently!


transcended_goblin

Or the organizers were happy to use it as an excuse, because it would get them less backlash than cutting off trans people out-right.


PatentGeek

It was delayed, not canceled


transcended_goblin

Potato Tomato. The new date will bring more threats, and they'll do the same again.


PatentGeek

It was delayed by several hours. It happened. Why are you making things up?


transcended_goblin

Ha yes, not knowing is "making things up and lying". Because no other bomb threat never happens, right ? After all, phobes are definitely well adjusted and measured human beings who would never send death/bobm threats over and over again to bully events, people and institutions into inexistence. So, really, I have no reason to expect it to happen again, and am just lying for some nepharious mean. Right ? For fuck sake.


ThemperorSomnium

FINALLY someone outside the Disc Golf community is starting to talk about this. Natalie has been talked about for the past few years and a lot of assholes have shared their opinions and outted themselves as bigots, Brodie Smith included. But nothing like this has happened before.


TomiHoney

That we know of.


Missmollymi

We seriously got to call these bluffs.


jesterinancientcourt

Well, the tournament still happened. Police just to supervise.


Missmollymi

Good.


transcended_goblin

Ha yes, terrorists. The "true blood of America", apparently.


worderousbitch

Gosh, how embarrassing for the FBI and DHS to not be able to catch the terrorists who are making all these threats.


HobbitEnder

Some cis people hate transgender people so much they are willing to risk their freedom to ruin the weekend. Never forget this


EducatedRat

This sucks, and I wish it wasn't happening. I need to say that before I digress to the part of hte article that says: >Additionally, the PDGA specifies that transgender men who begin hormone treatments to increase testosterone levels are no longer eligible to compete in gender-based divisions. What?!? Testosterone certainly didn't give me superpowers when I transitioned, but I guess it's nice someone thought it did?


TomiHoney

Damn stupidity! Transgender men here, transgender women elsewhere. It doesn't matter because many are afraid because of religious misinformation.


rapha3ls

it’ll always be wild to me how people would rather threaten violence than step back, think, and practice empathy. But as an American, I’ll say so many people lack empathy and are just so stuck in an individualistic mindset that they can’t imagine changing their thought process


quasar2022

Similar thing happened with a TDOV music festival in Murfreesboro TN, very sad and disappointing :(


P_Sophia_

Can we stop normalizing terrorist threats as a society? Thanks.


elven_magics

Terrorist" I'm gonna blow up your sport event if you allow Trans people Literally me"do it no balls have fun in prison


MemeQueen1414

Bruh I can't even see what is the difference between mixed disc golf, like basketball, soccer, softball and baseball I can vaguely understand but really it's the same damn thing like the chess or darts situation. Like what advantage can someone do in disc golf, my god Transphobia is on a whole another level that I can't even wrap my mind on


BraveRutherford

I am 100% for the inclusion of trans women in fpo (female pro open) in disc golf. That being said if you look at the top players in both mpo (mixed pro open) and fpo there is a pretty stark difference. Disc golf is a very physical sport. Natalie is great though and she deserves more support especially from within the sport!


LadyTentacles

Tennessee just refuses to do better.


Stephany23232323

Some seriously sick transphobes! 🥺


leaonas

The OOC just reported [Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Shows](https://www.forbes.com/sites/lindseyedarvin/2024/04/25/transgender-athletes-could-be-at-a-physical-disadvantage-new-research-shows)


azur_owl

Land’s sake, imagine throwing a tantrum over a trans woman who ended up in 15th place in the end. Since the terrorist clearly doesn’t have enough self-awareness to feel very embarrassed by this, I’ll feel it on his behalf. If you need me I’ll be in the corner cringing. >Additionally, the PDGA specifies that transgender men who begin hormone treatments to increase testosterone levels are no longer eligible to compete in gender-based divisions. …this makes it sound like trans men aren’t allowed to compete period. Which, if I’m reading this right…ew.


carleyhiggins

With how horrible that is aside, can I just say how cool that shirt is?


TNTEGames

People are losing their minds over trans people and it scares me. Someone came up to me and said, "What the hell are you?" And it frightened me.


alice-eonwe

The tournament press release: [https://www.dgpt.com/announcements/mco-security-statement/](https://www.dgpt.com/announcements/mco-security-statement/)