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07-19-04, 06:04 PM
Dana Gold
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more gender BS

This sucks....real bad....

FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A golfer who was born a hermaphrodite was banned from a woman's tournament because her birth certificate lists her gender as male.

Instead, 40-year-old Danielle Swope will play in Saturday's qualifier for the Fort Wayne Men's City Tournament.

"I have respect for the men for at least giving me the opportunity to play. The women I don't have any respect for," Swope told The Journal Gazette for a story today.

Swope, who was born in Meridian, Miss., said she was born with both male and female reproductive organs and underwent gender-reassignment surgeries to become completely female.

But her Mississippi birth certificate states that she was born male. The Fort Wayne Women's Golf Association said that was why Swope could not play in the Women's City Golf Tournament, which begins Saturday. Swope, who took up golf about two years ago, also was barred from last year's tournament.

I suppose, then, she will be addressed as Mister Danielle Swope ....."look, guys, here comes Danielle and his caddy"..............

Complete story in this link:


http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/163426-3256-094.html

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Last edited by Dana Gold : 07-19-04 at 06:23 PM.
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07-20-04, 11:35 PM
TaylorJ
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Dana,

I have put this on a new thread, article in full from the press. It has been bugging me all day after I read it this am in my email.

Taylor


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