"Have the girls on tour been consulted?"
Few in this our surf world have transcended like Bethany Hamilton. The Kauai surfer inspired the masses after getting her arm chewed off by a tiger shark but refusing to bend. Hamilton re-learned the game and awed all with her tenacity, fearlessness and skill.
Her memoir, Soul Surfer, became a major motion picture and, again, transcendent. Millions of copies sold. Millions upon millions of screenings held.
Well, as word has rippled out that the World Surf League has adopted a new policy that allows for transgendered women to compete at the highest level, Hamilton is using her large platform to decry and even vow boycott. In a to-camera piece, the 32-year-old wonders why the change in rules, if other surfers were consulted and what it will all lead to.
She sides with 11x champion Kelly Slater that there should be a separate division and vows to boycott the World Surf League if they continue down the road.
But what do you think the general feeling is in Santa Monica? Scared that maybe a more thoughtful approach should have been taken? Boldly awake, knowing that haters gonna hate?
Out to plate lunch?
The latter seems most likely.
No?
More as the story develops.
does that mean Craig Anderson can officially compete with the other ladies?
“Heading into the NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving National Championship, some projected that University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas would “dominate” her three events, and “smash” American records.
Instead, she didn’t come close.
The participation of Thomas, a 22-year-old transgender woman, was held up by some as “the beginning of the end of women’s sports.” Yet ultimately, out of the meet’s 18 events, Thomas won one race and placed in the top eight in two others.
She didn’t break any records. Her race times were not extraordinary.”
This was nearly a year ago at this point. Get over it.
Oh here is the queen going full cherry picked data on the surf community! Yet it forgot to offer the data that matters, specifically how Lia swam as a man. Yes queen, Lia was at best an average IVY LEAGUE(emphasis added!!) male swimmer, then the transition began and she improved dramatically. Hey queen, how about providing the data around Lia’s dramtic results improvement or would that crush your carefully crafted narrative?
Sure. The reality is that she entered three events and lost two of them. Does anyone know or care about the events she lost? No, of course not.
In the prior ten seasons, her winning time in the 500 yard free would have only won one of them. In the ’16-’17 season her time would have her placed twelfth, nearly 10 seconds behind the winner, Katie Ledecky.
The facts are that Lia Thomas’s performance is in line with her peers. Is she winning everything? No. Is her performance world-class? No. Do you give a fuck about women’s NCAA swimming? No, you don’t, but even though you’re such a busy guy, you’re taking time out to preserve the sanctity of college-level competitive swimming in the comments of an article that’s not about swimming at all. Great work.
The below is what makes your flimsy stance supported by carefully crafted Wikipedia knowledge a total embarrassment:
“Sure. The reality is that she entered three events and lost two of them. Does anyone know or care about the events she lost? No, of course not”
Now go look at her Ivy League season results. You remain foolish.
White Claws
Valentina hot sauce!
on one hand theres….
What Bethany would like to say I will give her justice and freedom by saying it for her. These cunts, or are they pricks, are cheats plain and simple. Grifters looking for an edge and receiving the green light to do so in a world of wokey wankiness.
The Olympics have allowed trans competitors since, what? 2004? How many trans gold medalists have there been? Since these “grifters” are such a problem, I’m assuming there must be a bunch of them, right? Remember the weightlifter that was such an issue? How many gold medals did she win?
Dipshit.
May I suggest you pickle your bollux or whatever other condiments you may possess and go free surfing. Here to help.
Got nothing to do with medals. It has everything to do with the idea that society should grant a man the right to compete against a woman in a space where women should be granted the right to compete against only other women. And the idea that a man can rape a women, then have the right to ask to be imprisoned in a space where women have their right to be only imprisoned with only other women denied. Your argument about medals is nonsense.
I don’t think you understand. The issue pertains to trans inclusion. There are no provisions for men being allowed to compete in women’s sports.
Sasha is that ewe?
“This guy isn’t piling on! He must be trans!”
Exactly! You make my point
I think it’s quite entitled for the girls that are genetically advantaged with a lot of the masculine characteristics (lots of muscles, low body fat, risk afinity, high testesterone, doping, sexual attraction to girls) to be really good at surfing to want to draw the line exactly where they are and lot let anyone with just a tiny bit more masculine characteristics in to their protected women’s category, even if those athletes desperately want to be accepted as women.
If you want it black and white just take the biggest marker and say only people with XX chromosomes can compete in the women’s category (takes care of 99,99% of women) and everyone else in a grey area is free to compete in the open (formerly known as men’s) category.
That’s just my opinion on the topic because this is one of the biggest current and future issue in world sports and it’s super interesting but, it is really not a men’s but solely a women’s issue and it’s great to see women like BH with her religious conservative attitude and JMP with her corpo-speak trying to solve it at last.
What’s SeaTiger gonna do now ?
Leave it to the WSL to solve a problem that does not exist, had a beer with a former exec tonight and he is just shaking his head at the path they have taken.
WOKE SHAME LEAGUE. AT LEAST NOW YOU WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT THE “GIRLS” AT MAX PIPE/TEAHUPOO AND JUSTIFY THE SAME PAYCHECK…IT WILL MAKES SENSE NOW! STILL THERE IS NO MORE AGRESSIVE AGENDA AGAINST WOMEN THAN THIS WOKE AGENDA. PUT A TRANS(BOY) TO COMPETE WITH REAL GIRLS AND THEY ARE GONNA GET BURNED. ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU PUT A TRANS(GIRL) TO COMPETE WITH BOYS AND “SHE” WILL BE SMOKED!!! KKK GO WOKE …GO BROKE. I WANNA HEAR THE INTERVIEW FROM THE REAL GIRLS NOW! POLITICAL CORRECTNESS NO MORE KKKKKK
Try putting yourself in Sasha’s shoes for once. Womens 13.5 wide.
Try putting yourself in the shoes of the girls who have to compete against transgender athletes…
We need a new badge from Negatron:
I have tranny friends
Since of course I do, but don’t tell anyone except Elo
JMDXi
[women’s side already full m-t-f ..continued]
the core don’t lie (v-shape no curve torso.. no hips.. male shoulders – wider than hips) – another example:
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Bethany calling for boy-caught?
(that ‘biggest-ever-wave-by-a-female’ thing – does it need an asterisk ..hmm)
Dumb cunt
Be nice … he’s just doing “research” … alone, in the dark, with a big box of tissues
don’t believe what you see with your own eyes .. maybe you boys never seen a real woman – wide hips, shoulder width narrower than male – about same as their hips ..hourglass shape etc.
reality: women’s side full mtf already – open your eyes and look closely ..and the new young ones coming in now (that all surf like men) ..boy oh boy
stay in the illusion if you’re comfortable there but hear it now believe it later
It’s a sin to tell lies brother … name names or be forever cast into the non-elimination round
that pic is Enever… is the woman’s side full of mtf’s already – now you heard someone say it out loud for the first time.. start looking more closely for yourself and see if it is so.. better that way at this point
i do not consent to the illusion
Just to be clear … you’re saying Laura Enever is undertaking male-to-female transition?
Any other names you care to name?
read above – what is said is clear enough
Here’s some rope … feel free to take as much as you need
Shades of John Mac-Enroe
Ummm, while I am no fan of pro surfing-/ try doing a pop-up with one arm in your living room.
Or try doing one on a 19 inch wide moving object..
She’s gods gift to the surfing world.
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the core don’t lie (v-shape no curve torso.. no hips.. male shoulders – wider than hips) – another example [photo link]: Aikau 2023
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You’re absolutely fucking fried.
absolutely speaking reality picture worth a 1000 words
Ideally those 1,000 words would constitute a coherent idea.
what are you talking about anti-christ.. now you know Victoria’s Secret
Shouldn’t her last name be Spamilton residing in the Aloha state?
Leaving aside the fact that consumer pressure is unlikely to be effective in a case where a billionaire can just write off the loses from his private sports league (and has done so for a while now), the bigger issue is that this policy is directly tied to surfings possibility to stay an Olympic sport. Nobody in the WSL gives two shits about the current viewers as our numbers can (and have) been comically distorted.
Now, I’m confident that with a bit of thought you can figure out where the problem originated. And I just want to say that I’m here for you when you’ve managed to do so. And we can talk about Marx and his idea of organised class struggle ;*
But the relationship between WSL and the Olympics is a tenuous one because ISF holds all the aces due to being the “original” surfing federation. How that must grind Dirk’s gears.
It would be interesting to see whether the WSL’s policy is just riding lockstep with the ISF’s so as to not get on the wrong side of them (and lose their precious Olympic qualification), or whether this is just idle platitudes because they don’t want to get cancelled.
Interesting that the big sports are big enough to cop the shit show when they don’t bow to the men who think they are women. For example Boston Marathon just allowed transexuals to identify as women on the entry form, but they have to qualify based on men’s cutoffs. That’s about as fair as can get in sport where the winner is based on the clock.
As far as I know the BM is a private meet and not an Olympic qualifying event. While WSL events de-facto are.
Hey Bethany if you read this – it’s already too late… they’ve already taken over the ‘womens’ side almost entirely
the core don’t lie (v-shape no curve torso.. no hips.. male shoulders – wider than hips) – another example [photo link]: Aikau 2023
those who can’t see it get ‘the glasses’
these (there are many) ‘women’ surfers need to out themselves ..expose it openly since ‘there’s nothing wrong with it’