A golfer who played against Haley Davidson is calling for a rule change after she tries again to get an LPGA card.
Olivia Schmidt made headlines this week for her recent video on the Independent Women's Forum. The title of the video is “Tee Time: Keeping Women's Golf Feminine.”
“I think when you have a large organization that protects just one person versus 400 others, it says a lot about who that person is and how they handle themselves.” Schmidt said in the video.. “They're protecting the few out of the many.”
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The LPGA now allows transgender athletes who have undergone hormone therapy to compete against biological women. The provision would allow Davidson to participate in events on the women's tour in an effort to earn professional status.
Mr. Schmidt would like to see these rules abolished.
“The bottom line is we can compete as much as we want, but the real change will come from the LPGA,” she said. “Only they have the power to stop it. It's up to them to protect us.”
Sumit added, “I hope that my children will one day be able to pursue their dreams without these distractions. I just pray for it.” [the policy] I pray that we can find a way to find some common ground in that, and hopefully for the next generation of golfers as well. ”
Transgender golfer Hayley Davidson takes care of her shots during the qualifying stage of the LPGA Q Series. (Riley Gaines/X)
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Nearly 300 players opposed Davidson's participation in LPGA qualifying. Davidson failed to make it past the second stage, finishing 95th out of 190 competitors.
Davidson has been open about the transition and defended his eligibility to turn pro.
“Every time I play Q-School, the players are getting farther and farther apart, and yesterday in the final round, one guy kept getting me by 40 yards,” Davidson wrote on Instagram in August. I wrote it in “Honestly, I love watching it, but especially their [sic] Is this big lie that I am outsmarting everyone so far from truth and reality? ”
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“It is clear that conservative media needs to do more to recognize these amazing female athletes, instead of belittling them and their abilities in order to attack transgender athletes.”
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