Surf and TERF.
Bethany Hamilton may well be the best known surfer in the world. The Kauai local, who burst on the scene as a 13-year-old after a nightmare shark attack took her arm, inspired all with her courage, tenacity, unwillingness to quit. She re-learned how to surf at a tip-top level, wrote an inspiring book which became an inspiring movie and is impossible for all not to appreciate.
Or, I suppose, was impossible for all not to appreciate for progressive TikTokers have gone to war against the icon, recruiting the aforementioned shark as an “ally.”
Less than one week ago, you’ll recall, Hamilton took to Instagram in order to question the quietly changed World Surf League policy that allows for transgendered women to surf competitively. According to BuzzFeed News, “The WSL’s new policy requires transgender women to maintain testosterone levels lower than 5 nanomoles per liter for at least a year, in addition to having a “female” or “X” gender marker on a passport or national identity card.For transgender men, the WSL does not state any hormone threshold and only requires athletes to have a “male” gender marker on official identification documents.”
Citing fairness, Hamilton sided with Kelly Slater and other notable surfers in calling for a trans division.
Back to the progressive TikTokers. They are rage-filled at the Soul Surfer’s “TERF” or “trans-exclusive radical feminist” stance and are lobbing many micro-videos featuring the shark saying things like “nom nom” on the popular Chinese spying platform.
@trashohr 🦈♥️🏳️⚧
@smudge.it.up #greenscreen crazy how people expose themselves #soulsurfer #ally #shark #fyp ♬ original sound – blue
What makes matters worse, TikTok is the most popular World Surf League application leading some to wonder if Santa Monica is quietly behind the attacks or, at least, tacitly approving.
More as the story develops.
Sex – the biological distinctions between males and females (United Nations)
Gender – the product(s) of sex-role socialization from birth onward.
We have a sex at birth (simply referred to as one’s sex), but not a gender at birth.
In almost all cases, the word “sex” is correct.
And yes, in most sports, it isn’t a fair contest, even if men have lowered their testosterone. The required level is still much higher than allowed for females, plus men have on average greater height, strength, longer wingspan, greater lung capacity, and a signicantly different pelvic shape and angle between the pelvic bone and femur that affects running speed.
Glad to hear you have athletic daughters.
I think he’s disjointed that a shark didn’t take his junk.
I just want to know when we will see 2x champ Tyler Wright square off against her sisters Michelle and Owena for the women’s world title.
This can’t come soon enough!
“Transformers, more than meets the eye.” – BH is just stating facts, I feel for anyone who wants to get their junk cut off to surf in a girl’s surf contest. That is true mental illness and should be viewed and handled as such.
“As the right of conscience is fundamental, no medical practitioner, healthcare institutions and healthcare payers should be compelled to participate in or pay for any medical procedure or prescribe or pay for any medication to which the practitioner or entity objects on the basis of conscience, whether such conscience is informed by religious, moral or ethical beliefs or principles,” the act states. “It is the purpose of this chapter to protect medical practitioners, healthcare institutions and healthcare payers from discrimination, punishment or retaliation as a result of any instance of conscientious medical objection.”
That’s the wording of the South Carolina law. Very similar to the Ohio law. Since one’s conscience is set entirely by one’s self, any non emergency service can be denied for any reason. You just say it violates your conscience on moral grounds.
Oh it’s limited to services that violate their conscience! Well that’s reassuring, thank you.
correction: bug-eyed ketch. hated lasers, but respected those that could ride ’em/
fav song and credos are ‘Sail On Sailor.’ we’re a breed apart. maintenance on teak decks gave me migraine. refurbing a 78′ Cheaspeake Bay former oyster schooner previously owned by Tyrone Power in Ensenada for 6 weeks was a no-brainer then. nightmares continue. migraines gone.
Can you really take a dude wearing eyeshadow under his eyes seriously. Whats next? Someone from Bethany’s corner posing a scalpal, a severed penis and a first place trophy?
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc…
I never understand why people just make things up in the internet era.
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I have utmost respect for all sailors. “How big is your boat?” Settled on Catalina 27 and lived aboard for 3 years. Really wanted a Swan 57…
lookie here VNR…a ripe fem fatale
http://r.ddmcdn.com/s_f/o_1…
look T! a female shark part…
http://r.ddmcdn.com/s_f/o_1…
or aussie lifeguards sitting on a cross-beam slappin each other with sandbags (er burritos)
back away from the pepper spray and snort this instead.
I somehow missed to times where Bethany did all this “tip top” surfing.
Keep smiling as you’re still out there while most older folks don’t do shit except golf and play pickleball! I appreciate watching the groms kick ass and my adult kids surf better than I ever could so my job is complete. THIS while I sit on the couch waiting for the Alleve and caffeine to kick in so I can skin up a mtn this morning…59 hurts.
Alleve or Advil for joint & back pain? Advil works for me, along w/libations and sativa. Alleve & shrooms must really be a ROcky Mtn HIgh!
Alleve for back pain. Shrooms and tequila help with all ailments
Is it true with her new title/ Job role JMD is officer in charge of putting up and pulling down the contest sites tents everyday?
As well as do coffee runs for the judges and making sandwiches for all concerned?
Wow, Ziff is really cutting the fat while trying sells the WSL