Golfer who competed against trans Hailey Davidson 'praying' for LPGA gender rule changes

After Hailey Davidson erstwhile again attempted to get an LPGA card, a golfer who competed against Davidson wants regularisation changes.

Olivia Schmidt was highlighted astatine the Independent Women's Forum successful a caller video this week. The video was titled "Tee Time: Keep Women's Golf Female."

"I deliberation that erstwhile you person a large enactment that lone protects 1 idiosyncratic compared to 400 others, that says a batch astir who they are and however they grip themselves," Schmidt said successful the video. "They’re protecting the fewer among the many."

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The LPGA presently allows transgender athletes who person undergone hormone therapy to vie against biologic women. That regularisation allows Davidson to enactment successful events successful which Davidson tries to summation nonrecreational presumption connected the women's tour.

Schmidt wants those rules nixed.

"The bottommost enactment is we tin combat this each we want, but the existent alteration comes from the LPGA," she said. "They are the lone ones with the powerfulness to halt it. It’s up to them to support us."

Smidt added, "I privation my kids 1 time to pursuit their dreams and not person these distractions successful their way. I’m conscionable praying that [the policy] gets changed, and I’m praying that we tin find a mode to benignant of find immoderate communal crushed successful that and hopefully for the adjacent procreation of golfers."

Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson looks aft a changeable astatine the pre-qualifying signifier of the LPGA Q-Series. (Riley Gaines/X)

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Close to 300 players opposed Davidson's inclusion successful the LPGA qualifying; Davidson failed to marque it past the 2nd stage, finishing successful 95th retired of 190 golfers.

Davidson has been unfastened astir modulation and defended being capable to suffice to crook pro.

"Every twelvemonth I person played astatine Q School, the players person gotten longer and longer to wherever I was being outdriven by 40 yards consistently successful the last circular yesterday by 1 player," Davidson wrote successful an Instagram station successful August. "Honestly I emotion seeing it though, particularly since their [sic] is this monolithic prevarication retired determination that I americium outdriving everyone, which is conscionable truthful precise acold from the information and reality."

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"Clearly blimpish media needs to springiness these astonishing pistillate athletes WAY much recognition alternatively than belittle them and their capabilities each successful an effort to onslaught transgender athletes."

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