Transgender female golfer Nicole Powers said she no longer competes against biological females because she doesn’t believe its fair.
“I had to take a step back and realize that biological realities are real and competitive advantages will always exist despite the number of years or whatever surgeries and hormones you’ve done, and then understood that my place is not in women’s sports,” Powers said in an interview with OutKick.
Powers acknowledged that other golfers and coaches told her “you belong here,” which she argued against, claiming they were trying to force an agenda and keep her as a way to champion transgender athletes in women’s sports.
“I’m not a woman; I’m a trans woman,” Powers said. “And it’s like this bizarro world where I’m trying to defend my reality against people who are trying to defend something I’m telling them I’m not.”
Powers said she wouldn’t give 100% effort in competitions against biological females as she believed she had an unfair advantage.
“I didn’t want to raise any flags. So if I’m standing on the tee box with three other women, I’m not going to just bomb a drive out on the fairway 310, 315 yards, even though I knew I could. Despite my lifelong transition or transition for 10-plus years, I knew that I could do that, but instead, I would maybe club down; lay off a little bit on my game, because I didn’t want to raise those flags,” Powers said. “In the back of my head this entire couple years, I was playing in professional tournaments, I knew I wouldn’t feel right if I did take awards [from women].”
Powers’ comments come amid another transgender golfer, Hailey Davidson, making a bid to qualify for her LPGA Tour card despite protest from 275 female golfers. Davidson advanced past the pre-qualifying stage of Q-School in August, tying for 42nd, and participated in the second stage of qualifying on Tuesday (October 22).
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