Transgender 'woman' wins women's pro golf tournament: 'It was so special'

The Women's Professional Golf Association Tour Australasia crowned its latest tournament winner recently: 42-year-old Breanna Gill, who has been identified as a "Trans-identifying male golfer" by multiple women's advocacy outlets.

The Independent Council On Women's Sports and feminist publication Reduxx both report that Gill has been winning women's tournaments since 2018 and playing in women's tournaments since 2015.

The WPGA celebrated Gill's latest victory on the first weekend of April 2023, with a favorable review titled "Gill Basks in the Glory of Australian Women's Classic Win," with no mention of Gill's alleged transgender status.

“I always thought in my head if I ever got the opportunity to actually win a golf tournament and the girls happen to come running out on the green, I was going to stand there and take it. I wasn’t going to run away,” Gill told the outlet.

“If you get yourself in that position, you just take it. It was so special," the golfer added.

Additionally, the WPGA even published an article the same day about the "Cruel Beauty of Defeat" regarding the second- and third-place women in the tournament.

"The beauty of opportunity is that it means something different to each of those who seek to grasp it," the article reads, while profiling Gill further.

"42-year-old Breanna Gill works full-time and has let go of her dream of playing overseas," the WPGA explains, adding that "for Gill, her victory over Vasquez at the first playoff hole represented the realisation of a dream she thought would remain just that."

Gill barely beat 224th-ranked Danni Vasquez, tying her on the final hole to force a playoff. Without Gill in the tournament, Vasquez, who has earned about $4,500 in all-time earnings, would have won the event. Gill, however, has earned $69,000 all-time, most of it recently, ranking fourth on the tour in the current standings with just under $35,000 before the recent victory.

Gill also beat out third-place finisher Stephanie Bunque and Momoka Kobori, the winner of the previous tournament. Both are also easily outranked by Gill in all-time earnings.

As previously mentioned, this is not Gill's first victory on the women's circuit. According to New Zealand Professional Women's Golf, Gill won the Qantas Golf Challenge and the New Caledonia Women’s Pro-Am in 2018.

The golfer also spoke in a Facebook video about winning the 2019 NZPWG Pro-Am.

“It feels good being the NZPWG Pro-Am champion .… I always thought I would get the job done here as the course really suits me visually off the tee," Gill said at the time.

The WPGA has turned its social media profiles to private since receiving backlash, including an image purportedly showing women showering Gill with champagne.

NCAA athlete and activist Riley Gaines remarked on the event, asking, "Who's surprised a male is being recognized as the 'winner' in the women's category?"

Commentator and host Megyn Kelly referred to Gill as a "biological man, a fact not even mentioned in much of the major press coverage celebrating 'her' win over the actual women in this tournament."

Gill's full celebration can be seen in the video below posted to the New South Wales, Australia, golf channel, for which comments have been turned off.

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