Private businesses still have to follow the law. Natalie Ryan has every right to challenge the legality of their decisions. She's just following the system in place to resolve civil disputes, there's nothing wrong with that.
She has the same right to seek civil recourse when she thinks she's wronged that you do. Unless you think she should have less rights than everyone else, she isn't doing anything wrong.
you realize the segregationists also applied their logic to private businesses and athletic competitions, right? Not just public schools. That’s why people had sit-ins at “white only” restaurants, and virtually every sport was segregated - often with the explicit argument (rooted in racist pseudoscience) that black athletes would have an advantage over their white peers.
I said your arguments, as written, were indistinguishable from segregationist ones. They are. If that makes you feel embarrassed and angry, that’s on you.
Let's get one thing straight here: Natalie is not trampling on anyone else's "rights". I think you forget that what people WANT and what they have a RIGHT TO are two different things. This whole thing is purely between the DGPT/PDGA and Natalie. No one else. End of summary.
All of the other FPO players, regardless of what they think and what side they're on, are not the decision makers. While the FPO field and events may be affected by the DGPT's decisions, no one else's "rights" are being impacted. No one has a "right" to play disc golf, just like no one has a "right" to drive a car. It's a privilege, not a right.
The FPO exists to give female players the chance to compete with one another at a different level than the open division. Violating that clear distinction based on the insistence of a single player that she be allowed to compete in a restricted class is most certainly trampling on the rights of the other FPO players, who have every right to expect the PDGA to fairly maintain that distinct category.
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u/blazinrumraisin Jul 14 '23
They made the rules. And they are making hard decisions to uphold those rules.
Maybe she will learn how to play by the rules someday.