Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson starts next Q school stage despite 275 female golfers opposing LPGA policy

Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson teed up connected Tuesday for the 2nd signifier of qualifying for her LPGA Tour paper contempt a radical of 275 pistillate golfers opposing the organization's policies allowing those assigned antheral astatine commencement to vie successful women’s events. 

Davison got done the pre-qualifying signifier of Q-School backmost successful August, finishing T-42nd contempt the immense fig of pistillate golfers voicing their displeasure with the LPGA’s sex policy.

The Independent Women’s Forum shared with OutKick that a missive signed by each 275 golfers was sent to the LPGA, United States Golf Association (USGA) and the International Golf Federation (IGF) connected Aug. 19, which was 3 days earlier Davidson competed successful the pre-qualifying stage.

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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson during pre-qualifying signifier of LPGA Q-Series. (Riley Gaines/X)

But that missive intelligibly didn’t alteration anything, arsenic Davison went connected to sprout an opening circular 78 connected Tuesday arsenic she continues to vie for an LPGA Tour card. 

Davidson has her tied for 171st spot retired of the 194-person field. Only the apical 35, and those tied for those positions, volition beforehand to the last qualifying. Those players that vie successful each 4 rounds of the 2nd qualifying signifier volition get constricted presumption connected the Epson Tour, which is simply a measurement beneath the LPGA Tour. 

The LPGA’s existent sex argumentation allows transgender golfers to enactment arsenic agelong arsenic gender-affirming country is done aft puberty and hormone therapy requirements person been met. 

Davidson has been vocal astir her transition, and she defended herself successful August aft moving connected to the adjacent stage. 

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"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. "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. 

"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."

Davidson began hormone treatments successful 2015 and had gender-affirming country successful 2021. 

The pistillate golfers who signed the missive to the assorted play organizations are existent and erstwhile players. 

"It is indispensable for the integrity and fairness of women’s play to person a wide and accordant information argumentation successful spot based connected a player’s immutable sex," the missive read. "There are differences betwixt the sexes — pistillate and antheral — that specifically impact our athletics of golf."

LPGA logo during the 2nd circular of the North Texas LPGA Shootout played astatine Las Colinas Country Club successful Irving, TX. (Ray Carlin/Icon SMI/Corbis/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Golfweek obtained a memo from LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan successful August, which said the LPGA Tour and Epson Tour volition reason a reappraisal of its sex argumentation by the extremity of the year, wherever changes, if any, volition beryllium implemented earlier the commencement of adjacent season. 

Davidson, who played men’s assemblage play astatine some Wilmington University successful Delaware and Christopher Newport successful Virginia, astir qualified for the U.S. Women’s Open this year. She has been astatine the halfway of contention successful the athletics passim 2024, and she hasn’t been acrophobic to talk up connected her end. 

"I volition ne'er recognize athletes who blasted a transgender rival connected their ain diversion failures," Davidson wrote connected Instagram portion practicing for Q School. "If you don’t instrumentality accountability for your failures past you volition ne'er really beryllium bully capable to marque it."

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Davidson besides criticized the NXXT Women’s Pro Tour aft it announced successful March that eligible participants connected circuit indispensable beryllium a "biological pistillate astatine birth" successful bid to compete. 

"Effective immediately, I person been removed (banned) from the adjacent 3 NXXT tournaments that I already signed up for and been approved to play," Davidson wrote connected her Instagram Stories astatine the time. 

"They changed their argumentation mid season, aft maine signing up already and being 2nd successful Player of the Year race." 

Davidson had won the Women’s Classic connected Jan. 18, which was her archetypal triumph successful much than 2 years and enactment her successful presumption to gain an Epson Tour exemption astatine the extremity of the season. 

NXXT Golf wasn’t the lone circuit to update its argumentation this year, arsenic the Cactus Tour successful Arizona announced successful September that competitors besides indispensable beryllium pistillate astatine birth. 

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

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The 2nd qualifying signifier is being played astatine Plantation Golf and Country Club successful Millsboro, Delaware. It was delayed 1 week owed to Hurricane Milton rolling done the area. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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