Mianne Bagger, a transgender female golfer from Denmark who made history when she competed in the Women’s Australian Open in 2004, disagreed with the notion trans women should be allowed to compete against biological women.
She expressed her support for an Australian lawmaker’s bill that would prohibit trans women to be included in female sports. The bill would have excluded Bagger from playing female sports as a trans woman, according to News.com.au.
“These days, [the dynamic] has crept into what’s called self ID or self identification: male-bodied people presenting as women, who live as women, with varying degrees of medical intervention and in some degrees, no medical intervention, which is just — it’s crossed the line, in my view, it really has … It’s a slap in the face to women,” Bagger said when asked why she supported the bill.
She told the news outlet it was important to note “the difference between general society and sport, particularly really high-level sport.”
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“In everyday society, of course we want an inclusive, egalitarian [society]. We want equality, lack of discrimination, and of course every single person should have equal access to life and services and work in society. Of course, we all want that, and so do I,” she said.
“In sport? It’s different. Sport is about physical ability.”
