{"id":524915,"date":"2021-05-19T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=524915"},"modified":"2021-05-19T08:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:50:54","slug":"trans-golfer-who-played-on-mens-college-team-snags-womens-title-eyes-lpga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-golfer-who-played-on-mens-college-team-snags-womens-title-eyes-lpga\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Golfer Who Played On Men\u2019s College Team Snags Women\u2019s Title, Eyes LPGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrans-golfer-who-played-on-mens-college-team-snags-womens-title-eyes-lpga%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=524915&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1201690922-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Hailey Davidson, who is biologically male but identifies as female, competed and won a professional title in women\u2019s golf last week.<\/p>\n<p>The transgender athlete, who formally <a href=\"https:\/\/progolfweekly.com\/ex-male-college-golfer-eyes-lpga-tour-after-reassignment-surgery\/\">competed<\/a> in men\u2019s college golf athletics, is now hoping to be eligible for the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA).<\/p>\n<p>The athlete, Golkweek <a href=\"https:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/2021\/05\/14\/lgbtq-lpga-transgender-woman-wins-florida-mini-tour-event\/\">reported<\/a>, toppled\u00a0LPGA player Perrine Delacour when Davidson snatched the women\u2019s title at\u00a0Providence Golf Club in Orlando on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The same day, the United States Golf Association (USGA) informed Davidson that he\u2019s met the organization\u2019s Gender Policy eligibility criteria and can now compete in the group\u2019s championships.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson, a 28-year-old social media employee for NBC\u2019s Peacock division under the Golf Channel, is seeking the same determination from the LPGA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not just going to be stuck on mini-tours,\u201d Davidson said, according to Golfweek.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CO0qhyDHVuC\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" readability=\"-8.3461538461538\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Davidson\u2019s application for the LPGA is still under review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently reviewing Hailey\u2019s application to participate in LPGA Tour events under the LPGA\u2019s gender policy,\u201d said\u00a0LPGA chief tour operations officer\u00a0Heather Daly-Donofrio, Pro Golf Weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/progolfweekly.com\/ex-male-college-golfer-eyes-lpga-tour-after-reassignment-surgery\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe policy is designed to be a private and confidential process between the LPGA and the athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Golfweek reported that the LPGA in 2010 \u201cvoted to eliminate its requirement that players be \u2018female at birth\u2019 not long after a transgender woman filed a lawsuit against the tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The USGA changed its Gender Policy this year \u201cto shorten the length of time transgender athletes had to wait to compete,\u201d the report said. \u201cUnder the previous policy, a player must have undergone gender reassignment surgery at least two years prior to the entry deadline.\u00a0The revised policy eliminated the two-year period. Gender reassignment surgery must now be completed prior to the championship entry deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The LPGA previously had a two-year rule implemented, though the policy was recently changed.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson suggested the two-year rule was transphobic, essentially an attempt to stave off trans athletes. \u201cTo be honest, you\u2019re really just putting up a two-year roadblock to hope that we give up by the time that two years finishes,\u201d the 28-year-old said. \u201cThat\u2019s all I ever saw it as.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CNqI6uYnJt4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" readability=\"-8.3461538461538\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The athlete formerly competed at Christopher Newport University on the men\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last tournament Davidson competed in as a male was U.S. Open local qualifying in 2015 at Admiral\u2019s Cove in Jupiter, where she lost in a 10-for-1 playoff,\u201d Golfweek reported.<\/p>\n<p>The athlete had transgender surgery earlier this year and has been under hormone therapy since September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson said any biological advantage the athlete had as a male is now nonexistent: \u201cAny advantage that existed is fully gone,\u201d the golfer said. Golfweek reported on the Davidson\u2019s transformation and weight loss:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>Davidson said she\u2019s lost 9 mph in swing speed and hits it roughly 30 yards shorter off the tee since beginning hormonal treatments. Her doctor required that she lose weight before surgery, roughly 60 pounds, and Davidson reached that goal and then just kept going, losing 90 pounds in the last 300 days. She stayed away from any weight training in the process, doing whatever she could to trim muscle mass.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hailey Davidson, who is biologically male but identifies as female, competed and won a professional title in women\u2019s golf last week.The transgender athlete, who formally competed in men\u2019s college golf &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278528,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1201690922-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trans Golfer Who Played On Men\u2019s College Team Snags Women\u2019s Title, Eyes LPGA","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1201690922-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Trans Golfer Who Played On Men\u2019s College Team Snags Women\u2019s Title, Eyes LPGA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}