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Originally Posted by DizzyG
If you were a transgender how would you have approached poker and gambling back in the day. Also,would you have tried to qualify for the lpga?
hmm, nothing would change with poker. poker is a level playing field. there is no privilege in poker, in fact, in practice its more like "reverse privilege". Any game filled with rich old white men is going to be the best game in the casino guaranteed. they are the fish on a level playing field.
golf is different. i will say firstly that i couldn't play well enough as a man or woman to be on the LPGA. ive played with LPGA players at shadow creek (middle tees) and they smoked me! boring golf, plodding around the course almost never missing a shot putting very well and boom, at the end card a very forgettable 2 under. Played with male pros as well and its a different animal, they are making shots I cant even imagine, playing a game im not familiar with (and these were nationwide tour guys). When we played shadow with the women our caddy, who knows im a pretty big gambler on the course said, "try to set up a match with me v. that LPGA pro, ill give as much as 2 a side from tips or even from their tees and still be a big fav". I tried but the ladies wouldn't take it for real money, even they knew a random caddy part time on Mackenzie tour would likely smoke them.
BUT, assuming i was a Transgender good enough to play on LPGA, i would 100% do it. LPGA (and all womens "sports") are segregated contests. A segregated contest is not a sport, its an exhibition (male sports before integration were exhibitions and no records set at that time should be taken seriously). A sport is OPEN. Why shouldn't a Transgender play in a contrived segregated exhibition? the purpose is just to sell tickets, no one cares about the "sport" part and thats why its segregated. A transgender would definitely sell more tickets for a while.