Monday, July 25, 2016

North Carolina Transphobia Update: Onus on the PGA, and on Adam Silver...

First, from Deadspin:

It appears we will be getting a new owner (or Michael Jordan consolidating his stake) in the Charlotte Hornets.

Felix Sabates sent this as a portion of an e-mail to the other owners of the Hornets.  I can't think that Adam Silver is going to allow Sabates to retain his stake in the team for very long!
“What is wrong with a person using a bathroom provided for the sex the were born with, if you want to change your gender so be it, we are a free county, but don’t force 8 years old children to be exposed to having to share bathroom facilities with people that don’t share the organs they were Bourne (sic) with, this is plain wrong, this could cause irreparable damages to a children’s that don’t understand why they have to see what God did not mean for them to witness, we have some very confused business as well as political humans that frankly have made this a political issue rather then (sic) moral issues, SHAME ON THEM.”
Donald Sterling got thrown out of the league for less than this.

Team and NBA refused to comment.  That appears to continue through today.

And the PGA of America has a controversy on it's hands that it refuses to properly address.

As the PGA prepares for the 2016 version of the PGA Championship (played early to accommodate the Rio farce), the 2017 PGA Championship is scheduled for Quail Hollow...

... in North Carolina.

And the PGA has decided (with one eye toward one having to wonder how much of it's white clientele actually agrees with this bullshit) that the 2017 tournament stays.

*sigh*  Two steps forward...

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