Both the LPGA and USGA announced new updates to their gender policies on Wednesday that will take effect in the 2025 season.

The new policy for the LGPA, broadly similar to the USGA’s, states that “players assigned male at birth and who have gone through male puberty are ineligible” on the LPGA Tour, the Epson Tour, the Ladies European Tour and all other elite LPGA competitions. The LPGA said the policy updates were “informed by a working group of top experts in medicine, science, exercise physiology, golf performance and gender policy law.”

The news follows the recent controversy surrounding transgender golfer Hailey Davidson, who almost qualified for the US Women’s Open this year. Davidson will be ineligible under the new LPGA policy because she began hormone treatments in 2015 when she was in her early 20s and underwent gender-confirming surgery in 2021.

Davidson responded to the news on her Instagram Story, writing, “Can’t say I didn’t see this coming. Banned from the Epson and the LPGA. All the silence and people wanting to remain ‘neutral’, thank you for absolutely nothing. This.” happened because of all your silence.

Earlier this week, the LPGA announced that Marcoux Samaan would be resigning from her position, effective in January.