Renée Richards played golf at the age of 90.

Richards recently said: "I played 18 holes yesterday. Today I'm going to play 18 holes in the league and if I feel good, I'll play 18 holes tomorrow."

The former professional tennis player and ophthalmologist made headlines in the 1970s, and when she transitioned to women, she sued and won the rights to the U.S. Open. In her half-year career, the doctor peaked at the 20th place in the world and entered the U.S. Open in 1977 with doubles, where she lost to including tennis legend Martina Navratilova.

Half a century later, her views developed – she believes transgender women who transitioned adolescent should not participate in women’s sports – but she was shocked by the wider restrictions on trans rights during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

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First, Richards’s thought: Navy veterans believe that trans Americans should be able to serve openly in the military.

"That's horrible. You know, I can only think of myself because I was in the Navy when I didn't know I was transgender. I haven't had surgery yet, but it's still me," Richards said. "It's a long way, but I still represent the same kind of person, even if they didn't know at the time."

Richards is the subject of an upcoming book, tentatively titled "Finding Renée", written by former sports painter editor Julie Kliegman. Richards believes that the fierce debate about trans athletes has fueled “from sports to military, to education, bathrooms, passports, presence, to teaching of any gender.”

Logan Casey, director of policy research at the nonprofit movement progress program, said it was a trend played in the state legislature before and during the Trump administration, which tracks executive orders that regulate gender.

Casey said the national level ban “set the foundation for all anti-transformers and anti-LGBTQ attacks before the current Trump administration.”

“It kind of makes the movement a foot, and a framework is how many people who have never considered trans people before, let alone think in the context of policy and law, are now considering and building trans people.”

Ash Lazarus Orr, spokesman for transgender advocates, said Mr. Trump's language in which he enforced the orders is similar to the orders and legislation in the state capital.

"Yes, that shows that yes, yes, that's a priority. You should continue to do that, actually do this attack," Orr said. “When we see attacks on transgender communities that are escalating at the state level under transnational government leadership, what we are seeing now under the Trump administration is definitely escalating.”

Nancy Hogshead, a Democrat who founded the nonprofit advocacy group champion women, believes the party is suffering from self-inflicted wounds.

Hogshead supports efforts to align with gender at birth, saying Trump and Republicans have found a galvanizing problem.

"It's a winner for them. It's a winner for Republicans," Hoggshead said. "Fifty percent of all girls are in the sports field. It's a meat and potato problem for them. It's not a marginal problem."

Richards believes Trump has a similar view. She said she treated one of his sisters as an ophthalmologist and had met Mr. Trump once.

"He knew I wasn't an ogre," she said. "He saw that his advisor suggested that his popularity was in hating transgender, a small group of people from the period."

Richards began her professional tennis career in 1977 when she was over 40 and he largely agreed with Hogshead. In April 2024, she provided the Women’s Tennis Association with a stance paper on trans women’s participation in sports, allowing sports illustrations to be published this year. Richards concluded in his paper that people who have experienced male adolescence should not be eligible to compete with biological women.

Richards' paper includes reflections on her time as her spare time and professionally playing, an analysis of "current literature on the subject," citing her decades as a doctor and policy advice.

It also touches on golf.

“My sport life is still in progress,” she wrote. “I have been a member of the women’s golf league for public/private clubs near my home for the last 20 years.”

Richards spoke with CBS News last week on Opening Day. She said that despite politics, women in her league still welcomed her game.

"Not only are they welcome and accept, but if I don't show up, they will hold the cemetery, trust me," Richards said.

Are there many 90-year-olds there?

"Yes, I. I'm the only one among men and women," Richards said. She guessed that the average age of the club was 60. "I played the forward, but I didn't play any of the gold t-shirts in front of that-I hit the ball like they did."