"To be the first trans woman competing in surfing hasn't been an easy ride emotionally but the amount of support I've been showed has been phenomenal."
Surfing’s first competitive transsexual surfer Sasha Jane Lowerson has continued her dream run through the women’s division of the Western Australian longboard titles, winning the open gal’s crown easily.
In the final, Lowerson, a forty-three-year-old strawberry blonde who has ridden “stupidly big Waimea” and who won the male division of the WA longboard titles in 2019 as Ryan Egan (whom Lowerson talks about in the podcast below) before transitioning, combo-ed one surfer, the other three gals needed nine-pluses to win.
The triumph was a sweet return for Lowerson who says she was close to killing herself a few months back, even had a few swings at it.
Depressed as hell, Lowerson gave up surfing, shaping, but once she decided to transition and the female hormones kicked in, woke up one day in February, felt a little better, called up Surfing Australia and said,
“Umm, this is me, the last time I competed in your Australian titles I was third, what are you going to do? I was pretty frank about it. We can do this two ways. We can do it together and make it amazing or we can do it terribly and it’s a circus and you guys are the only ones who are going to come out looking silly… I’d prefer to not go through that.”
Head judge Glen Elliot was super cool, says Lowerson, and told her he’d “love to see you still competing.”
Lowerson says, “To be the first trans woman competing in surfing hasn’t been an easy ride emotionally but the amount of support I’ve been showed has been phenomenal and I’m so grateful to be involved, welcomed and embraced within the longboard community in Australia.”
Inspirational.
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Where did you get the idea that the transgender community is jubilant. Many of us hate when another transwoman who still retains a masculine image, helps the anti trans movement paint all of us as He men in dresses that dominate women.
I’m only for trans visibility that helps us. Getting an intelligent beautiful young trans lady like Rebekah Brusserhof into media as a news person or politics would be much more beneficial to our community
please google fallon fox and post your thoughts
Fox believed she may have been a gay man, but learned the term “trans sexual” at the age of 17.
Biological women should have a walk-out. Protect women’s sports.
So your lose the male competition so you play dress up and surf as a woman and now you want your wins to be legit? Liberalism is a mental disorder.
When I was ten got my first wetti off my Dads mate who owned a dive shop, alas it was a chicks wetti and I had boobi things bulgy and filling up with water plus I had hips too…I knew the wetti was a dud…after a year Dad realized and got me a boys wetti. FYI this bloke willl never have a great fitting wetsuit ever-period..no pun intended. Ha
Please email Mark Lane Surfing WA CEO and tell him how unfair it is for males to compete “as women” considering they have male competitive advantage due to their biology and male puberty – this advantage is not mitigated with testosterone suppression. Email: [email protected]
They’re holding a board meeting on 16 June (tomorrow) to discuss – no doubt due to the public backlash – the majority of the population doesn’t subscribe to gender ideology – and even if we did, bodies play sport not “identities”! Keep men out of womens sport!
Awful misogyny…
Men aren’t women despite how they feel. This man has obvious male competitive advantage (this is not mitigated with testosterone suppression). Female surfers have spoken out about how unfair this is in their sport and Surfing Australia – chaired by the one and only Layne Beachley – has chose to completely ignore them. Disgraceful.
Prioritising men and their feelings and “identity” above the lived reality and biology of females. Shame!
This is sanctioned cheating.
While I echo sentiments of support, I am dead against the unfairness of this and the fact that Surfing Australia seems to be utterly blind to it. They are effectively ruining women’s sport by allowing this to happen.
And please, let’s not paint Lowerson as the victim. They know exactly what they’re doing.
The organisers have sacrificed “inclusion” for the core principal of sport :fairness. The nature of sport is inherently exclusive: you don’t position an adult football team against the under 8s, you don’t run 16 year old against 6 year olds, you don’t put featherweights with heavyweights in boxing. Your school team doesn’t include players from the next state.
Allowing a man to compete and scoop up the prize across both the men and women categories does absolutely NOTHING for trans rights instead fuelling the legitimate and growing resentment towards this minority.
There is a lot more at play here than just a surfing contest… https://www.breitbart.com/p…
This constructed community you described does not exist. The fact that this man was allowed to compete in a womens surfing competition and take the prize and the money is appalling. So no lesbians are not delighted we are appalled and angry. Very very angry.
Can you give me a bit insight into the how’s and why’s in this in regards to the lesbian community?
Because the article cites that the LGBTQ are ‘jubilant’, much of the LG community are horrified by this ideology ie lesbians being called transphobes because they won’t sleep with a trans women (Biological male in a dress)
Mi Ho 2 hours ago
“SeverelyLtd intelligence I image.”
That naked man isn’t my image, but if it excites you, I won’t tell your wife.
Your wife sounds like a whiner of the worst kind, but she’s right this time.
We can do this two ways. We can do it together and make it amazing or we can do it terribly and it’s a circus and you guys are the only ones who are going to come out looking silly… I’d prefer to not go through that.”
So he bullied his way into competing, I expect nothing less from a misogynistic pig in a skirt pretending to be a female. Goes to show how pathetic these men are! You’re mediocre as a man so you call yourself a woman and compete as a woman. How incredibly disgusting and homophobic in the extreme.
I said like 5 years ago some QS battler who realistically is never going to make the CT should declare themselves a women and cleanup. The WSL is too cowardly to say no. This is one step closer. The days of women’s sports are numbered.
They need to make a trans only division. If they want truly fair competition, they would do that. But the Sasha’s of the sporting world don’t want that. Where would the advantage be then if they had to once again compete against other men?
When one of these knuckle draggers walks into any arena of womens competition, they should all get up and walk out. Fuck this being kind. That or they allow women to use T to boost theirs to the amount Sasha has. It’s not cheating!
Another cheating male POS.
Surfing Australia need to grow some balls!
I know someone who won’t need a pair!
Fucking pathetic.
Georgia Young – you are the winner. The guy who ‘beat’ you is a fraud.
This man is a cheat and a bully, he threatened the organisers with a publicity circus if they did not allow him to cheat by competing against the women and like cowards they bowed to his demands. This is disgusting, and everyone knows it.
Absolutely disgusting. Selfishness on steroids. No words really. You selfish man.
Inspirational my ass!!! Male cheats females out of a title!!!
Sasha jerking off with his trophy. And they get to bully their way into every single facet of women’s sport. If the women were allowed to use Testosterone to boost theirs to match his…that would be fair play.