Posted on 05/16/2021 8:42:58 AM PDT by simpson96
Hailey Davidson is hoping her next stop is the LPGA after her mini-tour win at Providence Golf Club last week, although she is awaiting word on her eligiblity.
According to Beth Ann Nichols of Golfweek, the transgender woman underwent gender confirmation surgery in January and had been undergoing hormone treatments since 2015.
"We are currently reviewing Hailey’s application to participate in LPGA Tour events under the LPGA’s gender policy," LPGA Chief Tour Operations Officer Heather Daly-Donofrio said. "The policy is designed to be a private and confidential process between the LPGA and the athlete."
Davidson is allowed to compete in USGA championships after the organization told her she met its Gender Policy eligibility criteria. She is hoping for a similar result through a reciprocity agreement.
The USGA previously had a policy that required a player to be two years removed from surgery in order to compete, but the rule was changed this year. The LPGA had a "female at birth" requirement until removing the rule in 2010.
Davidson hadn't played a professional tournament in six years before returning to the sport in April. She finished 10th at a U.S. Women’s Open qualifier before competing in the NWGA event this weekend, winning the event after shooting two strokes under par across the two rounds.
The 28-year-old is now hoping to be the first transgender woman to compete in the LPGA.
"As cool as it would be the first person to do something, to be honest, right now could not be a better time for me to hopefully keep pushing forward and maybe break out, because there is so much anti-transgender legislation," Davidson said.
"I feel like actually having representation on any professional sports level will give kids so much more hope."
(Excerpt) Read more at bleacherreport.com ...
There isn’t an eyewash that can remove that disgusting image.
OUCH!
I do not think there is any hope in saving women’s sports given the SCOTUS ruling last year?
“In a historic decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects gay, lesbian, and transgender employees from discrimination based on sex. The ruling was 6-3, with Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s first appointee to the court, writing the majority opinion. The opinion was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the court’s four liberal justices.”
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/863498848/supreme-court-delivers-major-victory-to-lgbtq-employees
Kardashians
What’s par for that hole?
Gender Policy eligibility criteria
He’s she’s no it’s.
The continuation of the wrecking of actual women’s sports.......
Yeah, I kinda knew that. It was my obtuse attempt at sarcasm.
Why would a man subject himself to surgery that makes him look like Amy Schumer?
> Maybe I should read ALL of the article, huh? <
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🙂
Not girls. Their hopes are destroyed. Sorry gals, men make the best women! Everyone says so!
LOL. So true.
I mostly read the headline and excerpt before commenting. Other times I just react to the headline. Someday I just skip everything and go straight to the comment section and spout off without thinking.
I try to pay attention, but am easily distrac... look, a squirrel!
CHiPs
I can’t figure why an ugly guy wants to become a really ugly “woman”.
Yep, a little reversible chest surgery and now he is a she and can clean up on those nice tourney purses and endorsements. After she feels like she is well off enough to retire, she can reverse the surgery and be a he again.
Bernie Madoff ain’t got nuthin’ on this scammer.
Poor moron doesn't seem to be intelligent enough to understand that no matter what he says or does he was borne a male and he will be a male till the day he dies.
I recently watched an LPGA major event. The vast majority of the time I was watching women struggling to make par. I believe one woman was coming up from behind by making a string of birdies, but that was about all the excitement there was.
What's worse is something that is affecting all sports: uniformity. For better or worse, in the past sports was not a science. This meant that a few people with natural abilities would stand out above the rest and become sports "heroes" of sort, e.g. Nicklaus. However, now that sports is a science, anyone with reasonable talent and a good work ethic can achieve a high level of consistent ability. This means no one stands out much above the rest and every week it is another no name winning a particular event. This is happening in the PGA and moreso in the LPGA.
The scientific method is great for ensuring that experiments are conducted with rigor and regularity so that the results can be trusted. But when the full weight of the scientific method is foisted upon a sport with perfected diets, weight training regimens, psychological counseling, etc. then what is churned out is carbon copy athletes who all have an equal chance of winning the next event.
There is no such effing thing as “gender affirmation” surgery.
There is no such effing thing as “gender confirmation” surgery.
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