Women's disc golfer refuses to face trans rival as shock video shows her furious exit from competition

Footage of a women's disc golfer refusing to look a transgender hostile successful Nashville has gone viral, successful the aforesaid week aft a fencer took a genu against a trans rival earlier walking out.

The singular footage shows Abigail Wilson stepping up to vie successful her disc play tourney successful Tennessee against trans hostile Natalie Ryan, lone for Wilson unreal to instrumentality her changeable earlier turning to onlookers and shouting: 'Females indispensable beryllium protected successful our division. This is unfair. I garbage to play.'

She walked backmost and gathered her belongings earlier leaving her event, with fans applauding her move. 

Wilson underlined her presumption aboriginal connected Friday, sharing the footage successful a lengthy caption that finished with her saying: 'Today I astir apt ended my vocation and that is good due to the fact that this is bigger than me.'

Explaining her wide position, Wilson wrote: 'Today I refused to play astatine the Music City Open. Females merit to person their sex protected part beryllium protected. This is unfair. 

'I person worked truthful hard to get to this constituent to play connected the DGPT, but the sacrifice of my vocation and my hard enactment is worthy it if it means I tin marque a quality for different women, daughters, nieces, and the aboriginal of our sport. 

'If you consciousness however incorrect it is to person biologic males beryllium competing successful pistillate protected divisions successful sports, present is the clip to talk up and basal your ground.'

She continued: 'I took this basal contiguous due to the fact that I was having anxiousness astir playing with the openly trans subordinate connected circuit due to the fact that of the planned protests for this twelvemonth and the threats of unit astatine the lawsuit past year. 

'After speaking with a subordinate of the DGPT unit yesterday they made it wide they would beryllium unwilling to alteration maine to an earlier tee clip erstwhile regarding my fears of information connected the course. 

'They assured maine that determination would beryllium container checks, police, and information astatine the event. Upon arriving this greeting determination was nary information oregon constabulary presence, I was besides allowed introduction adjacent though I did not person my credentials. There were zero information precautions.'

Ryan has not yet responded publically to the incident. The Disc Golf Pro Tour, meanwhile, released a lengthy connection of its ain connected Friday. 

They said that Wilson would not beryllium punished for her protestation but stood steadfast against her claims astir the information of the event.

'The DGPT supports the close of each competitors to protestation and person their voices heard, and nary disciplinary action, authoritative oregon otherwise, is being taken for yesterday’s protest,' the enactment said.

'No rules oregon policies were violated. We promote players to bash what they deliberation is right, and Ms. Wilson is invited to vie connected the aforesaid playing tract arsenic each different players. 

'The DGPT hopes to spot Ms. Wilson backmost astatine different lawsuit successful the adjacent future.'

Wilson was resolute successful her beliefs though connected Saturday, posting different Instagram connection and saying: 'If you privation to help, delight basal up for pistillate athletes each accidental you get. Share your dependable with the PDGA and the DGPT. Thank you all.

The enactment from the assemblage has been overwhelming and I apologize if I americium incapable to respond to everyone’s emotion and enactment astatine this time. I volition bash my champion to get backmost to everyone and I admit and respect you all!'

She besides explained: 'I americium a tile mason by trade. I enactment an highly hard, laborious, and soiled occupation to adjacent statesman to spend to spell connected tour. 

'Every penny that has been enactment into my disc play vocation has travel retired of my ain pouch conscionable truthful I tin effort to ascent my mode to the apical done merit, determination, and perseverance. Believe it oregon not disc play is not lucrative if you’re not successful the apical 10.'

Earlier successful the week, USA fender Stephanie Turner was disqualified from her tourney aft taking a genu and refusing to vie against a transgender opponent.