LPGA scraps 'female at birth' policy

[Auggie]

ESPN.com news services / December 1, 2010

The LPGA's players have voted to allow transgender women golfers a chance to play on the tour.

Players voted Tuesday to amend the organization's constitution by removing the "female at birth" requirement, LPGA commissioner Michael Whan said. The vote came at a meeting ahead of the LPGA Tour Championship, which starts Thursday at Grand Cypress Golf Club in Orlando.

The change followed a lawsuit filed by a transgender women over the "female at birth" requirement.

Lana Lawless, a 57-year-old who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2005, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco in October, claiming the policy violates California civil rights laws.

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I applaud the members of the LPGA. I wonder what the actual vote was?

[Forkboy]

1. Cool!

[joeybee12]

2. Hell, they should let anyone whose age 57 compete!

I mean, at that age...

Snark aside, good news.