But! If the ISA "was to decide that transgender surfers are not eligible to enter international competitions, Surfing Australia would also look to reinforce that ruling."
Two months ago, surfing’s first transgender competitor, Sasha Jane Lowerson, who won the male division of the WA longboard titles in 2019 as Ryan Egan, ran through the women’s division of the Western Australian longboard titles, snatching the open gal’s crown easily.
Prior to getting the ok to compete, the forty-three-year-old had told Surfing Australia, “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.”
Equally exciting is the success of twenty-nine-year-old trans skater Ricci Tres, who recently won the Red Bull Boardr Open women’s division in New York, beating 13-year-old girl Shiloh Catori.
“I’m not going to go and be easy on them because they’re kids,” Tres said.
Very inspirational, and I mean it ‘cause I like my trannies, the elfin faces, the flashy sexpot outfits, the way they like to catch ‘emselves in reflections so they can admire their irresistible new visions, the service pistol tucked between legs, sometimes operable, sometimes no.
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Not everyone is so in thrall to the very special magic of gender jumping, howevs.
After Lowerson’s win, Kelly Slater opined, “Make a trans division and we don’t have this confusion.”
And, following the success of swimmer Lia Thomas, a towering twenty-three-year-old Texan who held various high school records as a male in high school and who only transitioned in her freshman year of college, the world swimming body FINA has now adopted a new “gender inclusion policy”.
Unless you transitioned before you hit twelve you ain’t gonna get into the gals. Instead, FINA has proposed an “open division”, formerly called the men’s, I guess.
Anyway, earlier today, Surfing Western Australia released a statement confirming, at least for the time being, their commitment to letting trannies surf.
There is an ominous caveat, however.
You don’t actually think you pass for a woman do you? Geez c’mon
While I completely understand that gender is a social construct and therefore wholeheartedly support any person changing their underwear and their name to a new one, I also am pragmatic enough to know that chromosomes don’t lie.
Therefore, I submit the suggestion that sport should be competed on grounds of like chromosomes vs like chromosomes.
And then have 2 separate divisions for transboys and transgirls.
It’s just kind of obvious.
We don’t want to alienate transfolk from sport, but we also don’t want to skew the competition in anyone’s favour.
Dude my mistake for not being more specific about Surfing WA and rthe Whalebone posts , however lets look at the rest of social media as you mention while we are at it, surfing… not skating or swimming. Keala has some really good input Claire Bevo from here in WA and a handful of others have chimed in constructively with relevance but seriously dude, ratio of blokes to sheilas chimeing in on the subject is still about a billion to one. And lets be specific again, its not People who are scared to voice their opinions thats pretty clear, its just that the majority of Women wont or dont. WHy is that? Great question! My opinion is that it’s probably more to do with society seeing women as no more than a rib, i dont know? But the point is and remains ,middle aged men are far more vocal on this subject than women, by a lot and that cant be argued…why is that?
I’d tag that man woman, only out at sea though because at the pier it’s queer but underway ain’t gay. So stop the hate every one!
Suddenly beach grit feels like a playground for scared little boys who still haven’t realised that it’s not big, cool or clever to pick on easy targets. Great work fellas.
suddenly? What the hell dude, nothing on here is serious but bullshit is still bullshit.
Picking on easy targets (girls) because you were born with a physical advantage is pretty shit though.
Suddenly? 😂 Get over yourself dude.
The ultimate narcissists. They only care about themselves and not the women and even little girls in this instance they are dominating. They only every talk about themselves. Must feel really inspiring beating women at sport.
What a load of shit
There’s not a person on the planet including my 6 year old son who would take one glance at “Sasha” and think that he is a woman. Lipstick, eyeliner…jawline…really hard to look at, especially the pic on the right. No offense intended, to each their own etc but stay the flying fark out of womens’ sport. You, me and the mailman know it’s totally unfair and is a direct affront to the notion of “equality” you purport to hold so dear.
That she-male skater def has a man’s pegs
You hoping to take it out or would you be happy with a place?
What’s really interesting is that there’s a hell of a lot of commentary in social media around this topic and particularly the longboard comp running this weekend in Perth “ The Whalebone Classic”. This has our favourite trans surfer competing. So the interesting bit…is the fact that everyone expressing outrage is a middle aged male, none of whom I’m aware of have female family members that compete.
Why is this?Cant chicks type?
That awesome competition where those pooches hang paw three to beach, I can beat those puppies!
I am dog now
JaneNonJane could probably make a quarterfinal, maybe a semi.
Pretty much sums Surfing WA inc perfectly .
Women with penises have been ruling the contest scene in west oz for years now
Bunch of cunts the lot of them
Not for profit apparently …
Balls in your court (or mouth), Fernando and ISA.
So with the WSL halving the medical support personnel in Tahiti because they can’t afford it ( didn’t ELO just say business is up 300%?) and they are now refusing pay the going rate to hire house’s out at chpoo because they are broke ( didn’t Elo just say business is up 300%?)
Does this mean any athlete, male, female, trans will be treated in a medical emergency equally half as well as they have been in the past?
As long as they double the Hinanos it’s all good. And free limes.
Where’d you read about the medical staff cuts?
Didn’t, was told, half the paramedic staff gone due to budget cuts and Wsl are asking for very reduced rentals at chopes much to the shock of locals ( Parker family) again due to lack of funds.
Not sure why they bring the medical team from Australia , you would think the French would be as good and cheaper?
Peter Drouyn Syndrome. – I mean Jamie Brisick
I have recently stated that I am, at least, the sixth best commenter here at BG.
Based on this ruling I am now identifying as THE BEST commenter on BH.
Don’t like it?
Well then you can orally stimulate (to climax, obvs) my gender neutral genitalia, you bigot!
If someone could please send me a contact for Sasha, I’d appreciate it as I’d like to send her some stickers. Doesn’t she have a shop or something?
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Shapes boards in WA. Barefoot division
Perfect thanks. I couldn’t find a lead on the googles.
If youre born with a dick and call yourself a woman, you’re not a woman.
Youre a guy who thinks he’s a woman.
If you have a car thats a Nissan and you put a Toyota badge on it and call it a Toyota. Everyone still knows it’s a Nissan. Strap you cock up and your still a Fucken bloke
It is so bizarre how this whole gender thing has grown legs (a third one in the case of girls becoming guys). It’s like life imitating art in some twisted yet comedic way. Born w a stem and seeds. you’re male and vice versa. No amount of twisted “logic” will ever change that biologically speaking regardless of any type of new age spin or surgery or how badly one wants to “identify” as anything other than what they were born with. Go ahead, be a whatever you want to call yourself regardless of or in spite of reality but compete w your own born sex out of the sake of fairness. If you’re a born dude competing w females, you’re a cheater, period (as Makua would say). Curious to see how many born females decide to compete against males. Guessing not many if any.
And if you mutilate yourself as a man into a woman, you’re just a dude without a Dick 🤣🤣
As “ted” says, ” there’s no such thing as chicks with dicks, only guys with tits!”