Lawless Sues LPGA For Transgender Snub
Associated Press accounts indicate that Lana Lawless, a 57-year-old transgender golfer, has leveled a suit at the LPGA for barring her from competition. A United States of America District Court in San Francisco will decide whether the LPGA’s rule that all competitors has to be “born female” is legal. Lawless maintains that such a rule runs afoul of the civil rights granted to her by CA law. Lawless is asking the court to bar the LPGA from holding events in CA and grant her damages from Long Drivers of The United States and their key sponsors.
Lawless competed as a female in long-drive championship
In 2008, Lana Lawless won the women’s division of the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship with a 335 yard strike. The participation of the event is now under LPGA standards. That means Lawless cannot compete again. In 1977, transgender tennis pro Renee Richards started a lawsuit that went to the brand new York Supreme Court, which Moonbattery compares to Lana Lawless’ suit. Since Chief United States District Judge Vaughn Walker just made a ruling in favor of gay marriage, Lana Lawless will probably be in favor at the liberal court, claims Moonbattery .
S.W.A.T. came before playing golf
Right Celebrityreports that when Lana Lawless was a man (known by a different name), he worked being a Special Weapons And Tactics cop for 18 years and also worked as a bartender in a Southern California city. Lawless had no kids. She had been married though. “I had a really tough and mean exterior. People didn’t want to mess with me,” Lawless explained very clearly. “But Lana was always in there. I had started to go to Los Angeles to the clubs, playing dress-up on the weekends. But I wanted to be a normal girl.”
A normal girl when it comes to competition
“I am a woman,” Lana Lawless insists. “I’ve lost muscle mass. I don’t have large guns (biceps). They give you a drug that stops you from producing testosterone. Your muscles atrophy. I feel like I do not have any power.” Perhaps one more landmark legal ruling in favor of the transgendered will change that.
Articles cited
Associated Press
huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/13/lana-lawless-transgender-_n_760882.html
Moonbattery
moonbattery.com/archives/2010/10/male-pervert-la.html
Right Celebrity
rightcelebrity.com/?p=4796
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_Richards
