A trans-identified male seized the top honor at a women’s golf tournament in British Columbia, Canada, this past weekend. Veronica Ivy, 43, dominated the competition despite only having taken up golfing in February of this year.
Ivy announced his victory through an Instagram post on August 25, posting a photo of himself holding the Olympic View Golf Club’s Ladies Club Championship trophy. The trophy is an intra-club award that players of the Olympic View Golf Club compete for every year. Last year’s winner, Rose Fong, was referenced by Ivy in his announcement.
“Was -3 thru 9 today, but finished +1. Had a lot of fun with amazing people. Rose, you can have this back next year,” he posted.
While Olympic View Golf Club typically celebrates the winners of their Club Championships on social media, an announcement post was conspicuously absent this year.
This is not the first time Ivy has taken home a golf honor intended for women.
On August 7, Ivy was one of three golfers on Team British Columbia to win the Margaret Todd Trophy at the 2025 Canadian Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship that took place in Lachute, Quebec. His team beat the second-place team by eight shots. Ivy posted about the win, boasting of his success despite having not played golf in 14 years.
“BC won, yet again, the Inter Provincial Competition portion of the Canadian Mid-Amateur Championship. I’m glad I was able to contribute to such a strong team. It’s my first year back to golf after 14 years off. So many positives to build on for next year. Putting will be our major focus this winter. I can’t wait to contend for the title next season,” he posted.
Earlier this year, Ivy took to social media to claim that he was “shocked” that he was already winning golf tournaments after just six months at the sport.
“Competition season started Monday for me and I am legitimately shocked I picked up my first win already. I managed +5, with a -1 back nine and 5 birdies overall. Still so much to work on, and putting is my biggest weakness. My fabulous pink Oz.1 is definitely going to help,” he wrote.
Ivy, who refers to himself as a doctor and an “interdisciplinary scholar,” is known for his vocal support of allowing trans-identified males to participate in women’s sports, calling it a “human right.” Prior to getting involved in women’s golf, Ivy competed in and won in several women’s cycling competitions.
In 2018 and 2019, Ivy, then using the name “Rachel McKinnon,” won the Women’s UCI Masters World Track Cycling Championship, and criticism over his wins garnered global mainstream media attention. After the 2018 win, female bronze medalist Jen Wagner-Assali posted on her social media that Ivy’s win was unfair. After being denounced as “transphobic,” including by Ivy, Wagner-Assali apologized.
But in 2023, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) implemented a policy that effectively banned trans-identified males from participating in women’s events. The ban applied across all categories, including elite and developmental events, and barred men like Ivy from continuing to compete against women.
Ivy complained of the news on his Instagram, noting that an updated UCI policy meant males would no longer be allowed to compete in the women’s category.
“I just received official word that I will NOT be allowed to race in the women’s field at the upcoming @uci_cycling UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championship in Manchester UK. I won sprint gold there in 2019 (and TT silver). I am registered and my UCI license says Female on it. I registered for the women’s sprint event. I paid my fee. However, now I’m forced into the humiliating ‘Men’s/Open’ category. No cis woman will be in this category, only trans women and cis men. That means it’s not ‘open.’ The UCI has said loud and clear that trans women are not real women and that we must be treated as other, and the cis women must be ‘protected’ from us innocent trans women. Nonsense. It’s an indignity. It’s inhumane. It’s disgusting. I will not be deterred by this hateful targeted transphobic policy,” posted Ivy.
Ivy has also gained notoriety for his abusive comments celebrating the death of British women’s right advocate Magdalen Berns, a fierce critic of gender ideology who died of brain cancer aged 36. Ivy publicly expressed that he wanted the women who do oppose male participation in female sports to “die in a grease fire.”
Ivy has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Waterloo. His graduate thesis, from 2012, was titled “Reasonable Assertions: On Norms of Assertion and Why You Don’t Need to Know What You’re Talking About.”
Ivy appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah to discuss trans identified males in women’s sports in July 2022. His appearance was “debunked” in an article by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright, who accused Ivy of “fallacious statements and scientific misinformation about the physical advantage of trans-identified males in female sports.”
In 2021, it emerged that Ivy’s alleged roommate and “platonic partner” at the time was arrested and charged with one count of criminal solicitation of a minor, and one count of attempted dissemination of obscene material to a person under 18.
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