‘HUGE’: Women’s pro golf tour bans trans golfer Hailey Davidson in historic move

OutKick contributor Riley Gaines reacts to the controversial decision from the Women’s Pro Golf Tour to update their policy to only allow biological females. #foxnews

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WILL: FORMER NCAA SWIMMER RILEY GAINES SHARING HOW SHE BECAME AN ADVOCATE FOR FEMALE ATHLETES AFTER SHARING HER FIRST PLACE VICTORY WITH TRANS-SWIMMER LIA THOMAS IN THE COLLEGE CHANCES. >> I’M STANDING ON THE PODIUM, AND WE’RE CLAPPING AND CHEERING AND SMILING, AND IT HIT ME, LIKE, WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE WE CLAPPING FOR?

BECAUSE, I MEAN, REALLY WHAT WE’RE APPLAUDING IS OUR OWN ERASURE, OUR OWN DEMOLITION ARE. I FELT GUILTY FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE FARCE. I FELT GUILTY FOR EVEN GETTING IN THE WATER. PETE: RILEY GAINES IS AN OUTKICK CONTRIBUTOR AND HOST OF GAINS FOR GIRLS PODCAST, AND SHE JOINS US NOW.

RILEY, THAT WAS A COOL MOMENT IN THE PODCAST. I MEAN, PEOPLE THINK OF YOU NOW BECAUSE OF WHAT — YOUR WILLINGNESS TO BE SO BOLD ON THIS TOPIC, BUT YOU REALLY JUST WANTED TO SWIM AND, ULTIMATELY, YOU WERE THROWN INTO THE MIDDLE OF IT. >> YOU’RE EXACTLY RIGHT.

IF THIS WAS NEVER A POSITION THAT I SAW MYSELF N. NEVERTHELESS, A POSITION I SAW ANYONE REALLY BEING IN. I NEVER IMAGINED IT WOULD BE NECESSARIES TO DEFEND WHAT WE’RE DEFENDING NOW. I 2K3WR5U9ED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WITH MY AGREE E IN HUMAN HEALTH SCIENCES AND HEALTH LAW.

I WAS SET TO BE IN DENTAL SCHOOL. I’D ALREADY ACCEPTED MY SEAT, WAS GOING TO SPECIALIZE IN ENDODONICS, WHICH IS ROOT A CANALS, OF ALL THINGS. SO, LOOK, NEVER A POSITION I SAW MYSELF IN. TRUTHLY, I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND OUR CIVIL PROCESS — TRUTHFULLY. ADMITTEDLY I KNEW WE HAD THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.

I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THEY DID. I DON’T EVEN THINK TODAY KNOW WHAT THEY DO, TO BE TOTALLY TOTALLY FRANK WITH YOU. [LAUGHTER] SO NEVER A POSITION I SAW MYSELF IN, BUT I FELT GOD’S CALLING, HONESTLY. AND EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR STRENGTH, FOR WISDOM, FOR DIRECTION AND PROTECTION, AND HE PROVIDES. RACHEL: YEAH.

AND PROTECTION. YOU TOOK A LOT OF ABUSE. I SAW THAT VIDEO OF YOU GOING TO SPEAK AT A UNIVERSITY, AND YOUR LIFE WAS IN DANGER. SAYING WHAT’S SO COMMON SENSE. BUT WHAT I THINK IS REALLY INTERESTING ABOUT YOUR STORY, RILEY, YOU KNOW I’A BIG FAN P I’VE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU FOR A

LONG TIME BECAUSE I THINK YOU’VE DONE MORE THAN SAVE WOMEN’S SPORTS. I THINK WHAT YOU’VE DONE IS MUCH DEEPER, IT’S MUCH MORE PROFOUND. I THINK YOU HAVE REDEFINED WHAT FEMINISM IS IN SO MANY WAYS. THE LEFT STOLE FEMINISM AND SAID IT WAS ABOUT ABORTION AND THE ABILITY TO KILL YOUR OWN CHILD.

AND YOU ACTUALLY STOOD THE UP FOR SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY IMPACTED WOMEN, AND THOSE SAME PEOPLE WHO SAID THAT IT WAS ABOUT ABORTION WERE THE FIRST ONES TO STAND UP AND ATTACK YOU. IT WAS SO IRONIC. AND YET YOU STOOD STRONG. >> IT IS IRONIC. EVEN JUST THINKING ABOUT A MONTH

AGO WHEN I TESTIFIED BEFORE CONGRESS, ONE OF THE DEMOCRAT WITNESSES WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S LAW CENTER, A LAW CENTER DEDICATED TO ADVOCATING AND FIGHTING FOR WOMEN. AND IN HER OPENING TESTIMONY, SHE SAID WOMEN SHOULD JUST LEARN HOW TO LOSE MORE GRACEFULLY IN SPORTS. AND YOU THINK OF SOMEONE LIKE

BILLIE JEAN KING, RIGHT, REALLY WHO WE HAVE TO ACCREDIT TITLE IX TO, SHE IS ACTIVELY UNDERMINING EVERYTHING SHE ONCE FOUGHT FOR IN FIGHTING FOR MALE INCLUSION IN WOMEN’S SPORTS AND WOMEN’S SPACES. SO IRONIC IS A GOOD WORD, ALMOST COMICAL IF THERE WEREN’T REAL CONSEQUENCES TO WHAT THESE WOMEE FEMINISTS — ARE FIGHT FIGHTING

FOR. AND PRIOR TO THIS I NEVER WOULD HAVE CONSIDERED MYSELF A FEMINIST, BUT I THINK IT’S TIME WE RECLAIM WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FEMINIST BECAUSE, LOOK, I AM PRO-WOMAN. I AM PRO-TRUTH, PRO-FAIRNESS, I AM PRO-REALITY, PRO-COMMON SENSE. I’M NOT STANDING AGAINST ANYTHING, I’M STANDING FOR WOMEN.

WILL: WE WANTED TO GET YOU ON SOMETHING THAT’S E IN THE NEWS, AND THAT IS THE NXXT BANNING MEN FROM PARTICIPATING IN THEIR WOMEN’S EVENT. IT’S THE FEEDER TOUR INTO THE LPGA. THEY’VE BANNED TRANS GOLFERS FROM COMING INTO THE NXXT, THERE WAS A MALE, HIS NAME IS HALEY

DAVIDSON, AND HE HAD WON A TOURNAMENT, I THINK HE WAS SECOND IN THE STANDINGS AT SOME POINT. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THEIR MOVE IN. >> WELL, I THINK THIS IS HUGE. NXXT WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IN THIS WITHOUT PUBLIC PRESSURE AND PUBLIC OUTRAGE WHICH SHOWS YOU HOW POWERFUL WE, THE PEOPLE ARE.

AND IT REALLY SHOWS YOU HOW THIS IS A UNITING ISSUE. I THINK THE MEDIA AND OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, OUR GOVERNMENT, THEY MAKE SEEM VERY POLARIZE TOKING LIKE IT’S VERY DIVISIVE. BUT IN REALITY, IT IS NOT. WHEN WE COME TOGETHER, WHEN WE UNIFY, WHEN — WHEN WE STAND IN SOLIDARITY, THAT’S HOW WE ADVANCE.

SO I COULD NOT BE MORE PROUD AND REALLY GRATEFUL OF THE DECISION THE NXXT HAD. IT MAKES IT A LOT HARD OR E FOR H HAILEY DAVIDSON TO WIN A BID FOR THE LPGA TOURNAMENT. RACHEL: YOU STOOD UP WHEN A LOT OF MOTHERS WEREN’T STANDING UP FOR THEIR DAUGHTERS IN SPORTS.

YOU WERE THE VOICE OF COMMON SENSE, AND YOU DESERVE A LOT OF CREDIT FOR WHAT WE JUST SAW HAPPEN IN THAT GOLF TOURNAMENT. YOU STOOD UP AND TOOK THOSE ARROWS EARLY. BUT YOU’RE RIGHT, COMMON SENSE IS PREVAILING, AND WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO THANK FOR THAT. PETE: THANK YOU,