Women's pro disc-golf event in P.E.I. cancelled over sport's policy on trans athletes

The Disc Golf Pro Tour has scrapped its women’s division at an event scheduled to take place on Prince Edward Island over concerns with the sport’s policy on trans athletes.

Several hundred competitors from around the world were set to compete in Rose Valley, P.E.I., this September in Canada’s first professional disc-golf tournament. 

But tour organizers announced over the weekend that the women’s division was being cancelled in P.E.I. and several U.S. states.

The decision follows two lawsuits in the U.S. by Natalie Ryan, a transgender female disc golfer who is no longer eligible to play under new rules issued by the Professional Disc Golf