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Court says transgender athlete can compete in CA women’s disc golf

admin california, Disc Golf, lawsuit, natalie ryan, transgender 0 Comments May 11, 2023

, 2023-05-11 17:28:53,

Professional disc golfer Natalie Ryan in a photo from her player information page at the Professional Disc Golf Association. Ryan is suing the group alleging discrimination becuase it will not allow her to compete at a tournament in Stockton in May.
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A transgender disc golf athlete who sued the Professional Disc Golf Association after she says she was barred from competing in a Northern California event won a court order allowing her to take part in the event’s female competition in Stockton this weekend.

U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley granted a temporary restraining order Thursday barring the disc golf association from using its policy to prevent Natalie Ryan from participating in the Stockton event, which is scheduled for Friday through Sunday, court papers say.

“Plaintiff is a professional woman disc golfer,” Nunley wrote in his 15-page order, which followed a court hearing earlier this…

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Transgender disc golf athlete suing to play in California competition

admin athlete, Disc Golf, lawsuit, natalie ryan, transgender 0 Comments April 1, 2023

, 2023-02-23 02:00:00,

A leading transgender disc golf athlete is suing the Professional Disc Golf Association, alleging that the group is preventing her from participating in a Stockton competition in May and seeking an injunction to prevent the group from doing business in California “as long as it continues to violate the rights of Plaintiff and other transgender women.”

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Sacramento federal court on behalf of disc golf athlete Natalie Ryan, says the new policy violates California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act against discrimination and has caused her to suffer “shame, humiliation, mental suffering, shock, embarrassment, intimidation” and other injuries.

At issue is a new policy adopted by the disc golf association and co-defendant Disc Golf Pro Tour that the lawsuit says requires any transgender woman “to have undergone gender-affirming treatment before the age of 12 years-old in order to compete in the female professional open divisions of its elite events.”

Ryan, a Virginia woman who has competed as a woman since March 2019 and is currently the 9th-ranked player on the disc golf tour, says in the lawsuit that she was notified in a Feb. 7 email that she was ineligible to compete.

“Plaintiff has felt like a female since birth and in January of 2018 had gender-affirming surgery,” according to the lawsuit, filed by Laguna Beach attorney Brian Sciacca. “Plaintiff is recognized under California law as a woman.”

The new policy was adopted in November…

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Polygamous group spent months trafficking minors in Lincoln, court documents allege | National News

admin courts, crime, criminal law, donnae barlow, fbi, follower, law, lawsuit, minor, mormon church, naomi bistline, samuel r. bateman, sexual abuse, state-government 0 Comments December 8, 2022

, 2022-12-08 17:00:00,

The leader of a polygamous group who declared himself a prophet spent months in Lincoln taking several girls as wives and orchestrating illicit sex acts with minors, according to federal court documents.

Samuel R. Bateman was arrested in August on state child abuse charges and federal charges of tampering with evidence. He has pleaded not guilty ahead of a January trial and remains in custody in Arizona.

Newly filed federal court documents provide more insight into the case against Bateman, who allegedly took at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet.

While the affidavit in Bateman’s case has been sealed, three of his supposed wives within the fundamentalist sect were arrested for kidnapping and impeding a prosecution related to Bateman’s case earlier this month.

The complaint against Naomi Bistline, Donnae Barlow and Moretta Rose Johnson sheds light on Bateman and his circle as they moved between Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Nebraska allegedly trafficking and engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors over a period of months.

Bateman, 46, proclaimed himself a prophet in 2019, claiming as the “Heavenly Father” he had been ordered to begin taking his followers’ wives and daughters as his own wives, or giving women — some underage — to other men as wives.

A former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, itself a breakaway sect of the Mormon Church, Bateman was at one time a close associate of Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sex abuse related to underage marriages.

While the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints once allowed its adherents to practice polygamy, the mainstream Mormon Church abandoned the practice in 1890 and now prohibits it.

According to the FBI, Bateman used his position of leadership within his small sect that is concentrated in Colorado City, a town of roughly 2,500 people on the Arizona-Utah border, to reward or punish his followers by giving or taking away wives, at least one as young as 10 years old.

In the affidavit filed by the FBI, Bateman took the first of what would become more than 20 wives in May 2020 when he was living in Lincoln. Two women, described as the “young adult daughters” of one of his followers, eventually fathered his children.

Bateman later…

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