Biological female golfers in Alberta, Canada, are suddenly being pushed off the top of the leaderboards, but why?
It appears a 2025 ruling opened the floodgates for transgender golfers to dominate women’s golf in the province and that’s exactly what’s happened.
Trans golfers Veronica Ivy and Rachel Elser have now won five individual women’s golf championships this summer, while Ivy, who used to dominate women’s cycling in Great Britain, was also a member of the winning team in the 2026 Canadian Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship.
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Elser’s titles include the Fort McMurray Club Championship along with the 2026 Miskanaw Ladies Open title; Ivy won the B.C. Mid-Amateur and Mid-Master titles on the same day in June and an unidentified club title in August.
What’s Ivy’s message to those who oppose biological males invading Canadian women’s golf? Get better, ladies.
“To the bigots: stay mad, and get a better hobby,” Ivy wrote. “You’re deeply unwell and you’re obsessed with harassing a stranger. You’re not going to make me stop existing and succeeding. I feel really sorry for you. You have my pity.”
Women & Girls Alberta, a group that is fighting to protect the rights, safety and dignity of Alberta’s Women & Girls, according to its Facebook page, says enough is enough with Ivy and Elser. The group says that Alberta has legislation that should be protecting female golfers.
But, based on the transgender rules set forth by Alberta Golf — the organization in charge of golf across the province — Ivy and Elser seem perfectly within the rules to go out and dominate biological females. “For individuals who have undergone gender reassignment after puberty, the following guidelines will be used: I. Male-to-female transgendered persons, to compete as a female, must submit documentation from a medical practitioner that gender reassignment has been ongoing for at least one year,” Alberta Golf stated as its official policy in February 2025.
And what would suffice as reassignment? Hormone therapy is good enough.
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The results since then speak volumes.
“I’m getting back into competitive golf, which was the sport I grew up with since I was 3,” Ivy wrote on Instagram the same month as Alberta Golf updated its transgender golf rules. By late summer, Ivy had won the first of what is now a full list of championships.
Ah, but Ivy says outlets like OutKick are making more out of this than we should. The competition, Ivy claims, is weak. “They just see that I won some competition–without any checking for what level of competition it was,” Ivy told OutSports earlier this month. “I went from competing in elite world-level track cycling, though never making the national team or the Olympics, to contesting for age group provincial titles.
“I still haven’t cracked the top 10 at the Canadian national mid-amateur championship. I’m just out here trying my best, being a good competitor. Transphobes are pathetic.”
Let that sink in, ladies. Ivy doesn’t think beating you is that big of a deal because you’re not very talented. Not talented enough, Ivy claims, for OutKick to make a big deal out of it. How pleasant. How brave of Ivy.
What’s Elser’s golf background? Outside of a 2025 women’s club championship, there’s not much to report. Magically, out of thin air, suddenly Alberta women’s golf titles are being won by transgenders.
But, as Ivy says, that’s not their problem. The biological females just need to get used to it or get better.
