POLL OF THE DAY: Did you think trans athletes should be banned in female sport? YOUR verdict
Hailey Davidson's Florida win has sparked outrage
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Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner has urged for trans athletes to be banned from competing in female sports.
The American athlete, who won the men's decathlon in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal before transitioning gender, warned that the integrity of female sport was at stake.
It comes after transgender athlete Hailey Davidson controversially won a Florida gold tournament.
Demanding a change to the rules, Jenner wrote in a newspaper column today: "Transgender athlete Hailey Davidson must recognise that golf is a game of integrity and withdraw from female competition.
"Then the Ladies Professional Golf Association should follow suit, seize this chance to reverse their grave mistake – and restore the spirit of one of the longest-running women's professional sports associations in the world."
The 74-year-old added when writing for the Daily Mail: "I am a transgender person who picked up the game of golf in my 50s, playing as an amateur, non-competitively, alongside men and women of all ages. I know for certain that there are physical differences between men and women that cannot be erased by modern medicine – especially after individuals go through male puberty.
"And Davidson, who began gender transition in their early 20s and underwent gender reassignment surgery six years later, is stronger than the rivals."
In our GBN Members poll, not a single person who voted said they disagreed with Jenner.
Just one per cent said they did not know, while 99 per cent agreed that trans athletes should be banned in female sport.
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