The Ladies Professional Golf Association issued a new rule regarding men who want to play on the tour masquerading as women. The LPGA press release states:
The LPGA has updated its Gender Policy for Competition Eligibility, effective starting with the 2025 season. The policy—informed by a working group of top experts in medicine, science, sport physiology, golf performance and gender policy law—was developed with input from a broad array of stakeholders and prioritizes the competitive integrity of women’s professional tournaments and elite amateur competitions. This working group has advised that the effects of male puberty confer competitive advantages in golf performance compared to players who have not undergone male puberty.
Accordingly, under the new policy, athletes who are assigned female at birth are eligible to compete on the LPGA Tour, Epson Tour, Ladies European Tour, and in all other elite LPGA competitions. Players assigned male at birth and who have gone through male puberty are not eligible to compete in the aforementioned events. The policies governing the LPGA’s recreational programs and non-elite events utilize different criteria to provide opportunities for participation in the broader LPGA community. For more details, please refer to the full policy at
lpga.com/gender-policy
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Golf offers opportunities for all athletes to compete at professional and elite amateur levels. Individual competitions are generally categorized as “women’s events,” which have specific eligibility requirements, or “open events,” where any player, regardless of sex, is eligible to compete.
“Our policy is reflective of an extensive, science-based and inclusive approach,” said LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan. “The policy represents our continued commitment to ensuring that all feel welcome within our organization, while preserving the fairness and competitive equity of our elite competitions.”
What prompted the new rule? A male golfer who competed as a male golfer in college decided to claim he was a woman and join the tour. The BBC reported:
Updated rules on gender policy will also apply to United States Golf Association events including the US Women's Open and will prevent Scottish-born American Hailey Davidson from seeking membership of the LPGA Tour.
The 31-year-old, who transitioned after playing men's college golf in the United States, failed to qualify for a card on the leading women's tour when finishing 95th at the second stage of LPGA Q School in October.
Davidson's participation prompted protests, with 275 female players signing a letter asking for changes to policies which allowed people recorded male at birth to compete in women's events.
Previously, the LPGA allowed players to compete if they had undergone gender-affirming surgery after puberty and met hormone therapy requirements....
Responding to the change on Instagram, Davidson said: "Can't say I didn't see this coming.
"Banned from the Epson and the LPGA. All the silence and people wanting to stay 'neutral' thanks for absolutely nothing. This happened because of all your silence."
Kingfish note: Oh, this didn't happen because of silence. It happened because people spoke up against this form of cheating. Expect Clarion-Ledger sob story in 3....2....1....
14 comments:
Common sense appears to be making a comeback.
Good for them. As a man, I wholeheartedly applaud this. The nonsense needs to stop.
Who checks for peckers?
It's about damn time this country starts getting back to normal and these weirdos quit trying to force their ideology(non-scientific by the way) upon the rest of us.
Good for the LPGA!! Any male, who cannot compete in any sport against other males, just needs to give up and find another pursuit.
There are people that still read The Clarion Liar? How does it still exist?
Looks like the ladies of the LPGA has more Ba$$s than the men, no pun intended!
Glad they did this. And who in the world would ever have thought that you would need to actually say---ok, if you're a guy, you can't play womens sports.
Wait. . .you mean there IS such a thing as common sense? I'm shocked that a governing body in sports can take such a novel approach as to say that only women (yes, those with XX chromosomes) can play on the LPGA. If I'm dreaming don't wake me.
Meanwhile the ACLU argues before the US Supremes that a child as young as 2 years old knows they are trans. Lunatics.
Whenever I see these lunatics arguing for trannys, I laugh out loud thinking of the Prison Therapy scene in Raising Arizona.
Prison Counselor : "Why do you say you feel "trapped" in a man's body?"
"Trapped" Convict (huge black guy in chain mail armor shirt with a deep bass voice) : "Well, sometimes I get them menstrual cramps real hard."
The sky is still blue no matter how hard you scream at it. It's not green. Maybe your hair is, but reality is a whole 'nother thing.
They need to start a TPGA League. Pronouns optional.
The LPGA can't afford losing $1 over going Woke....their business sense kicked in after seeing how 95% of Americans now want things to go.
How wonderful. The whole country seems to be coming out of a multi-year trance of Wokeness. The Dems seem to be dissolving like the witch. A great future ahead now after the spell.
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