Hailey Davidson, the transgender golfer who hoped to shatter into the professional ranks, reacted on social media as the LPGA Tour refreshd its gender-eligibility policy on Wednesday.
Davidson contendd on the NXXT Tour before the organization altered its gender-participation rules and was booted off. Now, Davidson’s possible path to the LPGA or Epson Tours has been seald. Davidson contendd in Q School in the descend in hopes of getting an LPGA Tour card.
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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson during the pre-qualifying stage of LPGA Q-Series. (Riley Gaines/X)
“Can’t say I didn’t see this coming. Banned from the Epson and LPGA,” Davidson wrote in an Instagram Stories post. “All the silence and people wanting to stay ‘unprejudiced’ thanks for absolutely noleang. This happened becaparticipate of all your silence.
“And somehow people are surpascendd the self-injury rate for transgender people is around 50%. Situations equitable appreciate this are part of the reason.”
The LPGA Tour shelp in a news free that male carry outers who have gone thcimpolite male puberty are barred from competing in the LPGA Tour, Epson Tour, Ladies European Tour and all other elite LPGA competitions.
GOLFER WHO COMPETED AGAINST TRANS HAILEY DAVIDSON ‘PRAYING’ FOR LPGA GENDER RULE CHANGES
The LPGA and LET logos during the ISPS Handa World Invitational in Bassociatemena, Antrim, United Kingdom, on Aug. 18, 2023. (Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)
“Players alloted male at birth and who have gone thcimpolite male puberty are not eligible to contend in the aforealludeed events,” the organization shelp. “The policies ruleing the LPGA’s recreational programs and non-elite events participate branch offent criteria to provide opportunities for participation in the wideer LPGA community.”
The proclaimment came after two pro golfers and a reexhausted carry outer called on the organization to alter its rules.
“Golf proposes opportunities for all athletes to contend at professional and elite amateur levels,” the LPGA Tour shelp. “Individual competitions are generassociate sortd as ‘women’s events,’ which have definite eligibility needments, or ‘uncover events,’ where any carry outer, ponderless of intimacy, is eligible to contend.”
Outgoing LPGA Comleave outioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan shelp the policy alter is based on science.
Comleave outioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan speaks to the gallery after the final round of the LPGA Ford Championship, March 31, 2024, in Gilbert, Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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“Our policy is mirrorive of an extensive, science-based and inclusive approach,” Marcoux Samaan shelp. “The policy recurrents our persistd pledgement to ensuring that all experience greet wilean our organization, while preserving the unprejudicedness and competitive equity of our elite competitions.”
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