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Trans golfer Hailey Davidson wins women’s tournament, increasing chances to LPGA qualifier

A transgender golfer with dreams of making it to the LPGA tour has won a women’s tournament in Florida, which improved her chances of earning herself a spot in a qualifying tour.

Hailey Davidson, 30, came out on top at the NXXT Women’s Classic on Jan. 17 at the Mission Inn Resort and Club, 35 miles northwest of Orlando, after shooting one-over-73 and ending the three-round tournament +4.

Davidson, a Scottish native residing in Florida, won after being 3-shots behind with two holes to go before forcing a playoff following her play on the 18th hole, according to Davidson’s Instagram post celebrating the victory.

NXXT Golf is a professional women’s golf tour focused on “elevating women’s golf.”

“The Tour’s mission is to prepare the world’s best young women professional golfers for a successful career on the LPGA Tour,” according to the Epson Tour’s website.

The win propelled Davidson to the top of the NXXT tour’s leaderboard where she boasts a total score of 1320, a whopping 150 points ahead of the woman in second place.

Out of the five tournaments held in the league since November, Davidson has placed in the top-2, twice, along with a 7 and 9 place finish.

Hailey Davidson poses with the trophy she won after winning the NXXT Women’s Classic on Jan. 17, 2024, in Howey-In-The-Hills, FL. haileydgolf/Instagram
Davidson won the tournament after being 3-shots behind with two holes to go before forcing a playoff following her play on the 18th hole. haileydgolf/Instagram

Along with a trophy and the 500 league points given to the winner, Davidson was awarded $1,576.51, increasing her season total to $4,206.84, with a current career total of $5,801.89 over 8 events.

At the end of the tour’s schedule, 10 exemptions will be awarded to the top five points leaders to participate in the Epson Tour.

The league is the official LPGA qualifying tour and has produced over 600 members who have gone on to play in the largest and most prestigious female golf organization in the world.

Five events have already been completed in the tour’s schedule, with eight more to go, all ending with the NXXT Tour Championship in Ocala, FL. from March 25 to 27.

The win propelled Davidson to the top of the NXXT tour’s leaderboard where she boasts a total score of 1320, a whopping 150 points ahead of the woman in second place. haileydgolf/Instagram
Davidson made history prior to joining NXXT Golf, as she became the “World’s first transgender person to win a professional golf tournament,” a record she boasts about in her Instagram bio. haileydgolf/Instagram

If Davidson were to be awarded two of the ten exemptions to the Epson Tour, she had to earn approval from the LPGA while she was transitioning from male to female.

She allegedly began talking with the tour in 2016 but wasn’t deemed eligible to compete until 2021, when, at that time, she had been on Hormone Replacement Therapy for 5 years and 8 months.

She also had full gender reassignment surgery by that time, according to a post on social media dated Oct. 2022.

Davidson also claims she lost 15 mph of “club head speed” as a result of her transition.

The average PGA Tour golfer’s club head speed is 114.2 mph while the average driver swing speed on the LPGA Tour is approximately 94 mph, according to analytics company GraffGolf.

Davidson allegedly began talking with the tour in 2016 but wasn’t deemed eligible to compete until 2021, when, at that time, she had been on Hormone Replacement Therapy for 5 years and 8 months. haileydgolf/Instagram

Davidson made history prior to joining NXXT Golf, as she became the “World’s first transgender person to win a professional golf tournament,” a record she boasts about in her Instagram bio.

Her goal of making the LPGA has been defended by Caitlyn Jenner, with the Olympic gold medalist supporting the transgender golfer to compete in the tour.

“I’ve been very consistent with how I’ve tried to approach these transgender athletes. It really depends on the sport. Every sport is different,” Jenner said in August 2022.



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Gretchen Felker-Martin tweets that she wants to slit J.K. Rowling’s throat

A well-known transgender horror author who was among the signers of a letter decrying the New York Times’ “biased” reporting on trans issues said she wants to slit J.K. Rowling’s throat.

Gretchen Felker-Martin called out several writers she said were transphobic — including “Harry Potter” author Rowling — on Feb. 12.

“If they all had one throat, man,” she added in the since-deleted tweet.


Well-known transgender horror author Gretchen Felker-Martin said she wanted to slit J.K. Rowling’s throat in a since-deleted tweet earlier this week.
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Felker-Martin came under fire last year after writing a self-confessed “depraved psychosexual horrorshow” in which Rowling is burned alive in her home.

Her debut novel, “Manhunt,” follows two trans women “attempting to survive in a world ravaged by a plague which transforms anyone with enough testosterone in their system into a shrieking monstrosity.”

They find themselves at war with “TERFs,” the derogatory acronym for so-called trans-exclusionary radical feminists — including the “Knights of J.K. Rowling.”


J.K. Rowling is under attack from trans horror author Gretchen Felker-Martin who calls her transphobic.
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Earlier, Felker-Martin had condemned the murder of British transgender teenager Brianna Ghey, 16, implying that Rowling and others had stoked the violence that led to the killing, the Daily Mail reported.

Police don’t yet have a motive in the case, but two 15-year-olds have been arrested.

Journalist Jesse Singal, who was also named in Felker-Martin’s tweet, blasted the author’s death threat and said he does not understand why she is allowed to tweet about such violence.

“If you are seen as being on the ‘wrong’ team, then if you quote-retweet one just a *bit* too snarkily, that’s considered ‘harassment.’ But the ‘good’ people — the “be kind” crowd — can threaten and harass you and tell you to kill yourself forever, and it’s all good,” he tweeted.

Felker-Martin’s tweet was posted just before she joined 180 activists who signed a letter to the Times criticizing its recent coverage of transgender issues. The Times published a column further defending Rowling the day after the letter was delivered, which angered activists even more.

An email sent to staff by Executive Editor Joseph Kahn and Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury obtained by The Post on Thursday admonished those who signed the letter.

“We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums,” they wrote.

Rowling has become a flash point for trans activists after she has openly questioned whether trans women should be allowed access to some female-only spaces such as prisons, domestic abuse shelters or sporting contests.  

She addresses the backlash in her forthcoming podcast, “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, and said her comments were “profoundly misunderstood.”

“I never set out to upset anyone. However, I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal,’ she said.



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