Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson teed up on Tuesday for the second stage of qualifying for her LPGA Tour card despite a group of 275 female golfers opposing the organization’s policies permiting those summarizeateed male at birth to contend in women’s events.
Davison got thraw the pre-qualifying stage of Q-School back in August, finishing T-42nd despite the huge number of female golfers voicing their displeastateive with the LPGA’s gender policy.
The Inreliant Women’s Forum allotd with OutKick that a letter signed by all 275 golfers was sent to the LPGA, United States Golf Association (USGA) and the International Golf Federation (IGF) on Aug. 19, which was three days before Davidson contendd in the pre-qualifying stage.
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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson during pre-qualifying stage of LPGA Q-Series. (Riley Gaines/X)
But that letter clearly didn’t alter anyslenderg, as Davison went on to shoot an uncovering round 78 on Tuesday as she progresss to vie for an LPGA Tour card.
Davidson has her tied for 171st place out of the 194-person field. Only the top 35, and those tied for those positions, will progress to the final qualifying. Those joiners that contend in all four rounds of the second qualifying stage will get confineed status on the Epson Tour, which is a step below the LPGA Tour.
The LPGA’s current gender policy permits transgender golfers to join as lengthy as gender-declareing sproposery is done after puberty and hormone therapy demandments have been met.
Davidson has been vocal about her transition, and she protected herself in August after moving on to the next stage.
“Every year I have joined at Q School, the joiners have gotten lengthyer and lengthyer to where I was being outdriven by 40 yards stablely in the final round yesterday by one joiner,” Davidson wrote in an Instagram. “Honestly I cherish seeing it though, especiassociate since their [sic] is this massive lie out there that I am outdriving everyone, which is equitable so very far from the truth and fact.
“Clpunctual conservative media demands to donate these amazing female athletes WAY more praise rather than belittle them and their capabilities all in an endeavor to strike transgender athletes.”
Davidson began hormone treatments in 2015 and had gender-declareing sproposery in 2021.
The female golfers who signed the letter to the various golf organizations are current and establisher joiners.
“It is essential for the integrity and equitableness of women’s golf to have a clear and stable participation policy in place based on a joiner’s immutable relations,” the letter read. “There are contrastences between the relationses — female and male — that particularassociate sway our sport of golf.”
LPGA logo during the second round of the North Texas LPGA Shootout joined at Las Colinas Country Club in Irving, TX. (Ray Carlin/Icon SMI/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Golfweek acquireed a memo from LPGA coshiftrlookioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan in August, which shelp the LPGA Tour and Epson Tour will end a scrutinize of its gender policy by the end of the year, where alters, if any, will be carry outed before the commence of next season.
Davidson, who joined men’s college golf at both Wilmington University in Delconscious and Christopher Newport in Virginia, csurrenderly qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open this year. She has been at the caccess of argue in the sport thrawout 2024, and she hasn’t been afrhelp to speak up on her end.
“I will never understand athletes who denounce a transgender competitor on their own dynamic fall shortures,” Davidson wrote on Instagram while practicing for Q School. “If you don’t get accountability for your fall shortures then you will never actuassociate be excellent enough to produce it.”
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Davidson also denounced the NXXT Women’s Pro Tour after it declared in March that eligible participants on tour must be a “bioreasonable female at birth” in order to contend.
“Effective instantly, I have been erased (banned) from the next 3 NXXT tournaments that I already signed up for and been upretaind to join,” Davidson wrote on her Instagram Stories at the time.
“They alterd their policy mid season, after me signing up already and being 2nd in Player of the Year race.”
Davidson had won the Women’s Classic on Jan. 18, which was her first thrive in more than two years and put her in position to acquire an Epson Tour exemption at the end of the season.
NXXT Golf wasn’t the only tour to refresh its policy this year, as the Cactus Tour in Arizona declared in September that competitors also must be female at birth.
Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson watchs after stoasty at pre-qualifying stage of LPGA Q-Series. (Riley Gaines/X)
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The second qualifying stage is being joined at Plantation Golf and Country Club in Millsboro, Delconscious. It was postpodemand one week due to Hurricane Milton rolling thraw the area.
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