Women's disc golfer refuses to face transgender competitor days after fencer kneels in protest

A video of women's disc golfer Abigail Wilson refusing to look a transgender hostile went viral connected Friday, prompting praise from women's sports rights activists.

The incidental came conscionable days aft Fox News Digital reported that women's fencer Stephanie Turner had refused to look a transgender hostile astatine a contention successful Maryland, prompting planetary consciousness and disapproval against USA Fencing. 

Wilson's refusal to look the trans jock came connected Friday successful Nashville, Tennessee, astatine the MVP Music City Open, which is an lawsuit that is officially sanctioned by the Disc Golf Pro Tour and the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA). When her sanction was called to measurement up to compete, she walked up to the tee box, coiled up her toss, and flung her limb forward, but didn't fto spell of the disc. Then she turned astir to explicate why. 

"Females indispensable beryllium protected successful our division!" Wilson yelled to the crowd. "This is unfair. I garbage to play!" 

Wilson past took her belongings and walked away. 

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Later connected Friday, she shared the footage of her protestation successful an Instagram video. 

"Today I refused to play astatine the Music City Open. Females merit to person their sex protected part beryllium protected. This is unfair. I person worked truthful hard to get to this constituent to play connected the DGPT, but the sacrifice of my vocation and my hard enactment is worthy it if it means I tin marque a quality for different women, daughters, nieces, and the aboriginal of our sport. If you consciousness however incorrect it is to person biologic males beryllium competing successful pistillate protected divisions successful sports, present is the clip to talk up and basal your ground," she wrote successful the caption.

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"I took this basal contiguous due to the fact that I was having anxiousness astir playing with the openly trans subordinate connected circuit due to the fact that of the planned protests for this twelvemonth and the threats of unit astatine the lawsuit past year. After speaking with a subordinate of the DGPT unit yesterday they made it wide they would beryllium unwilling to alteration maine to an earlier tee clip erstwhile regarding my fears of information connected the course. 

"They assured maine that determination would beryllium container checks, police, and information astatine the event. Upon arriving this greeting determination was nary information oregon constabulary presence, I was besides allowed introduction adjacent though I did not person my credentials. There were zero information precautions."

Wilson added that she believes the determination volition extremity her disc golfing career. 

"Today I astir apt ended my vocation and that is good due to the fact that this is bigger than me."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the CEO and Tour Director of the Disc Golf Pro Tour Jeff Spring for comment.

The Professional Disc Golf Association rules authorities that transgender players who were assigned antheral astatine commencement are eligible to vie successful the women's class aft undergoing continuous hormone therapy for astatine slightest 24 months and maintaining a definite testosterone level, verified done aggregate humor tests. Eligibility tin besides beryllium achieved done gender-affirming surgery, with the aforesaid requirements for testosterone levels post-surgery.

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A subordinate tosses his disc during the 6th Annual Denver Classic Disc Golf Tournament, Saturday, astatine the Badlands people successful Federal Heights.  (RJ Sangosti/ The Denver Post (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images.)

The trans rival who prompted Wilson's protest, Natalie Ryan, archetypal garnered attraction successful September 2022 aft winning the women's part astatine the Discraft Great Lakes Open, and achieving a fertile arsenic 1 of the world’s apical 5 female-classified disc golfers.

Ryan identifies arsenic openly transgender, according to the athlete's Instagram page. 

The Music City Open marked Ryan's instrumentality to the athletics aft recovering from "very invasive surgery," the jock revealed successful a station connected Thursday. 

At the 2024 Music City Open, the lawsuit had to beryllium paused aft a terroristic threat, which was targeted astatine Ryan, the enactment released successful a statement. 

"A telephone came into the lawsuit tract stating determination would beryllium a menace of imaginable unit against a rival astatine this weekend’s tournament," a circuit connection read. 

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