Trailblazing trans female golfer says 'there has to be a division' in elite sports

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Mianne Bagger, a transgender female golfer from Denmark who made history when she competed in the Women’s Australian Open in 2004, disagreed with the notion trans women should be allowed to compete against biological women.

Bagger, 55, started hormone replacement therapy in 1992 and had sex reassignment surgery in 1995. She began to compete against amateur golfers in the late 1990s and won the 1999 South Australian State Amateur tournament.

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Mianne Bagger of Denmark lines up a putt during the second round of the 2007 ANZ Ladies Masters at the Royal Pines East Course on Feb. 9, 2007 at the Gold Coast, Australia. (Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)

She expressed her support for an Australian lawmaker’s bill that would prohibit trans women to be excluded from female sports. The bill would have excluded Bagger from playing female sports as a trans woman, according to News.com.au.

"These days, [the dynamic] has crept into what’s called self ID or self identification: male-bodied people presenting as women, who live as women, with varying degrees of medical intervention and in some degrees, no medical intervention, which is just — it’s crossed the line, in my view, it really has … It’s a slap in the face to women," Bagger said when asked why she supported the bill.

She told the news outlet it was important to note "the difference between general society and sport, particularly really high-level sport."

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Danish transsexual golfer Mianne Bagger on Oct. 29, 2004. (FABRIZIO VILLA/AFP via Getty Images)

"In everyday society, of course we