Transgender golf cart
The usual incomplete evasive dishonest manipulative reporting:
Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson narrowly misses out on qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open
He’s not a “transgender golfer” – he’s a transgender man, aka a man who claims to be a woman. “Golfer” is not a gender.
This careful evasiveness seems to be universal in mainstream journalism, which is maddening. It’s not the job of news outlets to protect men who are working 24/7 to destroy the rights of women.
The caption under the photo at the top of the story is even more evasive:
Hailey Davidson, a winner earlier this year on the NXXT Tour, missed qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open by one spot.
Nothing even hints that he’s not a woman.
The lede:
Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson missed qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open on Monday by one stroke. Davidson finished in a three-way tie for third in the 36-hole qualifier at Bradenton (Fla.) Country Club with rounds of 70-73, emerging as the first alternate from the event. She tied two-time LPGA Tour winner Jasmine Suwannapura and Louis Olsson Campbell of Sweden. Suwannapura is the second alternate.
People who don’t pay attention to the Trans Wars could easily read that without realizing that Davidson is a man who claims to be a woman. “Transgender golfer” doesn’t mean anything, and the entire rest of the paragraph simply reads as if he’s a woman.
It’s not until the third paragraph that Golf Digest admits he’s a man.
If this was an actual woman failing to qualify for a tournament, would it make the golfing news at all?
Good question. Probably not, because if that were news, just think how many stories there would be. Better just to publish a list.
Might make local news, but not national or international.
Well, they can point to this and say “See, we’re not winning all the time, so SHUT UP, BIGOT!”
But the newsworthiness of his failure to make the cut suggests he was favoured to. Top placed teams or athletes washing out sooner than expected is, as far as I know, considered newsworthy in sports.
He could just be well known and thus of interest. He’s won at least one “women’s” tournament. When Tiger Woods fails to qualify, he isn’t favored to win anymore but he is noteworthy anyway.
I follow golf, and women’s golf specifically, very closely. I have only come across Hailey following the gender wars, not golf. Who the alternates for the US Open are is noteworthy only when it’s a famous player, and noteworthy because they would’ve been expected to qualify or they are making a comeback. FWIW I have emailed the USGA and had already done so to the satellite tour Hailey had been playing on.
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