diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.3.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.3.rst
index a52143c32618b..3e2dc1b92c779 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.3.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v2.0.3.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ Fixed regressions
 - Bug in :meth:`Timestamp.weekday`` was returning incorrect results before ``'0000-02-29'`` (:issue:`53738`)
 - Fixed performance regression in merging on datetime-like columns (:issue:`53231`)
 - Fixed regression when :meth:`DataFrame.to_string` creates extra space for string dtypes (:issue:`52690`)
-- For external ExtensionArray implementations, restored the default use of ``_values_for_factorize`` for hashing arrays (:issue:`53475`)
 
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