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HaddyAbrams · 09/12/2024 19:13

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lcakethereforeIam · 09/12/2024 19:12

If he can survive being misgendered by his surname I'm sure he'll be fine.

MrsCarson · 09/12/2024 19:10

Aww bless, a failed male athlete isn't allowed to feel like he's the best player by playing in the women's competition. And we care why?

Datun · 09/12/2024 19:10

It's quite stunning entitlement.

Crap in the men's class, so cheats in the women's, furious that he wasn't consulted to judge on his own behaviour, and has decided that because of the aforementioned crapness at the men's he'll no longer stand a chance?

Do these men really think that whingeing their arse off about not being able to, what most people would consider, blatantly cheat, really inspire anything other than contempt? Save for the most rabid transactivists?

Cowardice notwithstanding, there's a reason why everyone he knew kept 'neutrally' quiet.

ACynicalDad · 09/12/2024 19:09

I feel as sorry for him as for Lance Armstrong

PaterPower · 09/12/2024 19:06

“Earned” is doing an awful lot of work there.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 09/12/2024 18:53

My heart bleeds

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TwistedWonder · 09/12/2024 18:53

And now an actual woman will get her chance at the greatest achievement she’s earned in her life and I will be applauding her as she accepts the rightly earned trophy

Hoppinggreen · 09/12/2024 18:50

Well isn't that a shame

hallouminatus · 09/12/2024 18:47

OldCrone · 09/12/2024 16:45

That's what happens when you cheat. You have all your 'achievements' taken from you. Because they weren't really achievements if you were cheating.

As it should be. However, despite the histrionics, that hasn't actually happened: as I read it, he keeps the trophies and prize money from previous "wins", so the women who should have won are still disadvantaged.

JazzyJelly · 09/12/2024 18:45

Another poster (apologies, I can't remember who) recently posted an illuminating article: https://news.sky.com/story/transgender-world-cup-swimming-races-scrapped-because-no-one-entered-12976203

These chaps don't want to compete against that sort of woman I guess. Just the xx ones.

JingleB · 09/12/2024 18:41

@ArchMemory, I feel your pain.

Quick, make yourself a flag and we’ll designate a special day/month/year to celebrate you.

ArchMemory · 09/12/2024 18:40

I can understand Hailey’s pain because I too have been banned from the British Junior Golf Tour simply because I am an adult woman. I refute that I have any unfair advantage over the children in the BJGT and my evidence for this is that they have lower handicaps than me. This has nothing to do with the fact I have never played golf. Also I was never invited to take part in any research looking at performance differences between adults and children.

RedToothBrush · 09/12/2024 18:36

The Greatest Achievement I’ve Earned In My Life Taken From Me

Said the women who he pushed into second place whilst cheating.

It's good he knows how they feel now.

SabrinaThwaite · 09/12/2024 18:21

I’m enjoying Hailey’s Insta videos. They are very instructive.

It’s like watching an average bloke play golf but in a skort.

And as for the ‘no male advantage’ … hahahaha.

RapidOnsetGenderCritic · 09/12/2024 18:19

Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/12/2024 16:59

And in a final post, Davidson hit out at the studies the LPGA and USGA referred to, after not being involved or consulted despite being currently the only transgender golfer the rules apply to.
"For the record, I was not involved, nor asked to be involved, in any of the "studies" that any golf organization has just used to ban me, the only active golfer who is actually affected by these policy changes," Davidson concluded.
Why would you be? There's a massive conflict of interest. And a sample of one isn't a sample.

"me, the only active golfer who is actually affected by these policy changes"

... apart from all the women he competes against.

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MrBungle · 09/12/2024 18:10

JellySaurus · 09/12/2024 16:51

All the silence and people wanting to stay "neutral" thanks for absolutely nothing. This happened because of your silence.

Quite. Men were allowed to colonise women's sports categories, awards, toilets, rape shelters because of people's silence. Thanks, indeed, for nothing.

This change is thanks to all the women who refused to be silenced.

Too much silence is indeed what got us here I suppose …

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TWETMIRF · 09/12/2024 17:49

Tried to find some sympathy for him but couldn't quite manage it.

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FeralWoman · 09/12/2024 17:34

So he’s just another mediocre man now?

'The Greatest Achievement I’ve Earned In My Life Taken From Me” - Transgender Golfer Hailey Davidson Responds To LPGA Ban
SinnerBoy · 09/12/2024 17:30

OldCrone · Today 16:45

That's what happens when you cheat. You have all your 'achievements' taken from you. Because they weren't really achievements if you were cheating.

I was going to say something similar, but you've put it far better than I would have!

MondayTueWed · 09/12/2024 17:29

Interestingly the journalist only used the female pronoun once in the whole article referring to the player as Davidson all the way through.

Wonder if the editor forced him to use it at least once.

MarieDeGournay · 09/12/2024 17:26

HermioneWeasley · 09/12/2024 17:16

Once again for the blokes at the e back, being required to play in the correct sex class isn’t being banned

Summed it up so well! It says in a dozen words what it would take me several sentences to say, and I'm going to steal and quote it often, thank you HermioneWeasleySmile

RufustheFactuaIReindeer · 09/12/2024 17:25

Oh thats a shame 😔

no wait i didnt mean that…

i meant to say good!

HermioneWeasley · 09/12/2024 17:16

Once again for the blokes at the e back, being required to play in the correct sex class isn’t being banned

Theeyeballsinthesky · 09/12/2024 17:09

Lovelyview · 09/12/2024 17:07

It seems he's far too bad a male golfer to get anywhere near the men's tour.

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So odd that isn’t it?? It’s almost as of seeing as he can’t make it on the men’s tour he thinks deserves a place on the woman’s one to make up for it