After Hailey Davidson as soon as once more tried to get an LPGA card, a golfer who competed towards Davidson needs rule adjustments.
Olivia Schmidt was highlighted on the Unbiased Ladies’s Discussion board in a latest video this week. The video was titled “Tee Time: Keep Women’s Golf Female.”
“I think that when you have a big organization that only protects one person compared to 400 others, that says a lot about who they are and how they handle themselves,” Schmidt stated within the video. “They’re protecting the few among the many.”
The LPGA at present permits transgender athletes who’ve undergone hormone remedy to compete towards organic girls. That rule permits Davidson to take part in occasions during which Davidson tries to realize skilled standing on the ladies’s tour.
Schmidt needs these guidelines nixed.
“The bottom line is we can fight this all we want, but the true change comes from the LPGA,” she stated. “They are the only ones with the power to stop it. It’s up to them to protect us.”
Smidt added, “I want my kids one day to chase their dreams and not have these distractions in their way. I’m just praying that [the policy] gets changed, and I’m praying that we can find a way to kind of find some common ground in that and hopefully for the next generation of golfers.”
Near 300 gamers opposed Davidson’s inclusion within the LPGA qualifying; Davidson didn’t make it previous the second stage, ending in ninety fifth out of 190 golfers.
Davidson has been open about transition and defended having the ability to qualify to show professional.
“Every year I have played at Q School, the players have gotten longer and longer to where I was being outdriven by 40 yards consistently in the final round yesterday by one player,” Davidson wrote in an Instagram put up in August. “Honestly I love seeing it though, especially since their [sic] is this massive lie out there that I am outdriving everyone, which is just so very far from the truth and reality.”
“Clearly conservative media needs to give these amazing female athletes WAY more credit rather than belittle them and their capabilities all in an attempt to attack transgender athletes.”
