"It's pretty noisy in the surf world this week. I’m just weathering out the storm."
A little over two weeks since the WSL tentatively opened the door for transgender gals to compete at the highest level and Kelly Slater and Bethany Hamilton responded with a call for a “trans-only division”, the sport’s only transgender surfer has responded in a candid new interview.
You’ll rememberer the arrival of Sasha Jane Lowerson, a forty five year old as full of juice as warm ripe fruit, on the women’s longboard scene last year when she dominated the women’s div, adding trophy upon trophy to her groaning mantelpiece.
Lowerson bloomed into womanhood in 2020 shortly after winning the men’s longboard div as Ryan Egan and didn’t look back.
“Trans-girls aren’t going to take over the world, we just want to be included, we’re humans too,” Lowerson said. “I’ve been hiding in this male shell up… for 42 years. To still be made to be that guy that I’m not, it’s shattering,”
The WSL officially allows trans-women to compete so long as they’ve been a gal for at least twelve months and their hormone levels are less than 5 nanomoles per liter continuously for the previous 12 months (biological men hover between 10 and 35, bio-gals under three).
“The WSL is working hard to balance equity and fairness and it’s important for a policy to be in place,” the WSL’s newly anointed Chief of Sport Jessi Miley-Dyer told the oft-controversial adult learner surfer website The Inertia. “We recognize that the policy may need to evolve over time as we get feedback and see new research in the field.”
The world’s most inspirational surfer Bethany Hamilton opened a Pandora’s Box, however, when she recorded a piece to camera damning the policy.
Hamilton said she was speaking for tour surfers who felt muzzled, agreed with Kelly Slater who called for a trans-only div and said she’d boycott events if it went ahead.
“Speak your truth!” wrote the big-wave legend Shane Dorian. “Thank you for being brave enough to stand up for what you believe. Don’t listen to people who hurl the word transphobic at anyone who’s beliefs don’t align perfectly with theirs. These are complicated problems with no clear solution. Regardless, there are many people who love and support the trans community who agree with you on these issues…Less than 1% of people think this policy reflects fairness. Quite the opposite.”
Since the middle-aged logger Lowerson is the only transgender surfer doin’ the contest rounds and good as she is on the nine-footers she ain’t exactly a threat to Carissa Moore it does make opposition about it all feel a little confected.
In an interview with LGBTQ+ website Them Lowerson responded,
“It’s pretty noisy in the surf world this week. We’ve got a lot of the far right just going mental. I’m just weathering out the storm. The positive side of it is the number of allies that have popped their head up just in the past 24 hours for me. The women who have stood up and said, ‘We’ve surfed against Sasha, and she’s awesome’ and ‘regardless of gender, she’s an amazing surfer.’ One girl said, ‘She smashed me in one final, and then I got her in the next, and it’s no different than surfing with any other girl.; It’s just weathering the storm of bigotry at the moment, and having good allies who are willing to stand up with us.”
The main culprits, the bigots, said Lowerson are, “middle-aged men. It’s all the same as it was a year ago, and ten months ago. I‘m sure it’s gonna get pretty loud in a month when I actually have a world surf league jersey on at the start of March.”
Speaking of trannies, is Valentina Sampaio, who appeared in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue and on the VS catwalk, your favourite crossover trans-model ?
Or are you team Geena Rocero, a Playboy centrefold in 2019?
Why do these people jump straight to “you hate me because I’m different”?? Maybe some people do. I don’t think most people give a sht what you identify as, go be you, who cares? But when you try to compete in sporting events in the opposite gender, you are pretending there aren’t natural differences in physiology. I’m sure there are a lot of women surfers who would beat you in competition, but that is not the point. In reality, they would be competing against a man, who identifies as a woman. Let’s talk fairness here. How fair is that? To the women who have fought hard their whole life to get where they are in a sport, only to be slapped in the face with having to compete against a physiological man. How. Fair. Is. That?
perhaps next he can identify as 14 years old and win the kids division too
Orange ya glad!
They really are pond scum.
And can you please tell me what that “entrance policy” is?
LOL!
Or otherwise what?
What does it matter anyway? If people want to break the rules, re writer the rules, have no rules… etc. then these new gals should also be able to compete in the men’s category as well.
Save the sermon for Sunday school.
That requires fingers and tongue???
“To be constrained to this “bodily shell” of a 45 year old overweight kook is not fair. My real me is 22 and rips like Benji Weatherley in 1995. To still be made to be that guy that I’m not, it’s shattering,” – Optimus Prime Transformer Elite
deleted for telling hard reality? guess BG isn’t so ultra hard as they claim
(*call me a two-star troll if you like that’s fine.. but don’t say you didn’t know)
Well it probably would’ve stayed up if you hadn’t posted the photo. That took you from from mild Retard to oh my God what a fucken Retard.
the photo is irrefutable proof isn’t it.. (many more images equally irrefutable of other ‘names’ can easily be produced – for the record) ..faking out the entire world is an enormous issue though – and photos are fair play for exactly that reason..
like i said though.. now you can’t say you don’t know.. makes you complicit in the gaslighting-illusion on the surf world everytime you play along with it does it not.. playing along that is called bowing to baal (no doubt saying that gets me more ‘retard’ adjectives but that don’t matter cause true is true.. anyway i’m not bowing – ‘women’s’ surfing is unwatchable anyway because of ‘how it is’)
So any Woman that plays sport that doesn’t fit into how you think a Women should look is in fact part of the The Worldwide Gender-Erasing program, raised since birth as the opposite sex, force fed pills and pushed into certain sports to infiltrate the norm?
And photos of what was traditionally called a bit of a Tom-boy is irrefutable evidence of this?
Think you’re too far gone Bud and I’m pretty sure I’ll just ban you, as I just can’t see you adding anything of value to this site.
Youre losing it
You didn’t see his post. Looney tunes.
Yeah, i didnt. Thanks for your protection
Its protecting the site not you.
Right on
too bad you didn’t see it – the case was laid out very clearly
to ban is your prerogative – but i’m not the bad guy here what i’m saying is ‘Wright’ – don’t let your anger at the messenger ‘Simmer’ – note: not a ‘tomboy’ issue – tomboys still have the female ‘hourglass’ shape, men the ‘v’ shape – the core doesn’t lie. Every womens sport is infiltrated to the core – like USA soccer, USA Gymnastics:
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– it’s a real thing ..jus sayn
let me guess what you dont do for a living. Biologist?
irrefutable
You didn’t get a chance to prove your Lesbian skills?
Ah yes. We are all aware of the centuries long suffering, oppression and silencing of white Christians. If only they had their own buildings, tv/radio/media platforms or major political parties to voice their struggles. Oh wait…
Ha ha! Someone down voting my “controversial”opinion is like down voting someone that has the temerity to say”rain is wet”. Freaking snowflakes! White Christians so easily butthurt. Just like Derek Carr.
They are very sassy!
Here’s a question…how does one prove to the HR Lady that they are, in fact, homosexual?
Pics or it didn’t happen
I’m pretty sure that was the plot of an ’80’s movie…Just One of the Guys.
Winning men’s division as dude pretty much shot a giant hole in the argument that those men ‘less than’ their male peers would transition just to win women’s. Which anyone with one iota of a brain knew was dumb argument in the first place.
Was a joke
This is what real grooming looks like. End times? Strict entrance policy for heaven? LMFAO.
Both sides do it stop projecting
This is ironclad logic. Checkmate libtards!
So, if you guys for example don’t want to fuck your mum, she’s actually a dude.
Long way of saying yes.