LPGA and USGA to require players to be assigned female at birth or transition before male puberty

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4. A question about this new "policy." Would they allow her to play in the men's field?

I'm curious about how they think they can refuse participation at all...

And golf, especially--a sport for which I quite freely admit to holding no particular knowledge of how there would or would not be an argument for "benefit" imparted from having gone through puberty. Just trying to understand their "thinking" in making this stance. Does the possible ability to hit the ball harder really create such a differential and advantage? It seems you have to be able to direct it too.

My attempt to follow their rationale leaves me again asking: how do they think they can refuse participation at all? It doesn't seem like this policy is defensible--even if one ignores any malign motivations for making it.