"Speak your truth! Less than 1% of people think this policy reflects fairness."
The world’s most inspirational surfer Bethany Hamilton opened a Pandora’s Box yesterday when she recorded a piece to camera damning the WSL’s new policy on trans-women competing in the gal’s div at the highest level.
The World Surf League has tentatively opened the door to trans-women competing so long as they’ve been a gal for at least twelve months and their hormone levels are real low, although the WSL said it wouldn’t be doing the testing, each athlete suppling their own supporting documents.
“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 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.”
Hamilton, who was thirteen when a tiger shark took off her arm in a bite “so clean and painless she noticed the sea had turned red before she realised her arm was gone at the shoulder”, 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 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”
Hawaiian legend Kimo Leong, who owns Kanaka Solutions, security for Pipe, the Eddie etc, posted Bethany’s screed with “Let’s hear your Taughts!”
And, the Makaha lifeguard Noland Keaulana, who dramatically abandoned his jetski to save the life of Kala Grace at the Backdoor Shootout a couple of weeks back, posted a simple thumbs down.
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How will the WSL respond to the rumblings of mutiny?
Bated breath etc.
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Go Bethany!
No men in women’s sports, dressing rooms, prisons, etc.
Stop the madness!
Bethany is 100% right!
They don’t realize that they’re about to destroy centuries of historical achievements made by woman, all in the name of sheer ideological narcissism.
Unfortunately, we are living in a pandemic of “psychotic ideologies” which are completely divorced from reality and are spreading like fire through social networks.
Gender studies have already been exposed scientifically by many serious scientists, and the only thing which is keeping these sick narratives alive, are small groups of radical ideologues who are profiting on people’s logical ignorance!
These policies are not based on serious studies, but on pure on ideological narcissism!!
For stealing prize money despite having no value and killing mavericks competition this exactly what womens surfing deserves. Karma is a male born female identifying bitch
Why is it always the mentally ill telling us how to live our lives?
I won’t tolerate pedophilia. That doesn’t make me intolerant, it makes me sane and civil.
This is the same situation
To say something is one thing. Bethany is DOING SOMETHING about it. It would be nice to see some back up from her peers. Like a full strike. We dont need “equity”. We need competence. What’s next? Equity for airline pilots? That would end bad. Things need to stay merrit based. Those girls earned their spots and train hard to stay there. Enough of this woke pandering bullshit. I wish you all would realize. You don’t need the woke surf league. They need you!!!
Sounds more like WSL opened a Pandora’s box, not Hamilton.
To avoid public admonishment, for one. PR is a cat and mouse game.
Plus, you’ll note I said that you’d only make it a permanent fixture if it’s wildly successful – which, given the WSL is aiming to make money as a business, only follows common sense. If it fails in it’s first year, then you can put this issue to bed and shut down any future naysayers.
why don’t we keep things simple and less divisive and simply have two WSL male division competitions. First division has males who love being male and then a second division for males who no longer want to be identified as males.
The second division can be an open division where anyone can compete in it apart from males who want to be males, could even chuck the people born females into that division as well. This new division would be paid for by closing down the women’s division as it’s getting to divisive and nobody can work out what it that all these people born female actually do to contribute.
All you’ll get are funded compliant stutterers & a severely evaporated confidence for the set up, part of Ze plot.
Just what the hell is the WSL doing? Whatever sex you are born as is what you compete in. End of Story….
Let me clear up what you don’t understand – ‘tolerance’ does not apply to bending the 100% factual science of what is a male and what is a female. In terms of the woke warped minds it refers to and only to accepting their “….the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with…” – in other words if they say a man is a woman and conversly, and that a man can bear a baby even though he does NOT have a uterus, for you that is a “human productive organ”, that such bull schitt must be “tolerated” and is the epitome of tolerance? So typical of the warped woke mind …. redefine what words mean to suit agenda, deny the factual proof of science that has stood the test of time since creation ….. sick people, thorough and undeniably sick!
I don’t surf, but aren’t all surfers already trans?
Open division in all sports.
Solved it and the pay differentials, too.
You’re welcome.
“let’s hear your taughts” is perfect
You can easily tell who dosent have kids
so I’m sure that you were the one who suggested that we (ie. those with a different view) were uneducated and needed to read Romans, plus some other shit. Feels like making the point that I’ve read it and then some was responsive. But apologies. You’re absolutely right. Dumb of me to stick my neck out with some actual real life knowledge in this space. I’ll just stick to calling you a dumbass and letting you think I’m an ignorant wanker … forget I ever mentioned the ancient Greek thing. It’s a dead language anyway.
Oh I did, but it’s still shocking to me how anyone could use that as part of this, or any argument.
Don’t die on this hill brother.
As of this day, 2023, there is no threat to women’s surfing from Trans. Let us prey. Amen.
Does this Aloha mean goodbye dear friend?
Why does this subject trigger you? NS macho thing? I kid because I am not aware of any male attempting to compete as a woman. Sascha nonwithstanding, he’s just a moron.
I can not see a tranny competing in the women’s draw.
As such, who cares?
Their ultimate goal is to do this to as many children as possible.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-…
Liberals want to ruin children. Check.
It’s the agenda.
The fact you see no problem with narcissistic freaks doing that to a child says a lot about you.
You can’t project everything you despise on “the other side”.
There is no liberal agenda and that is a problem because the “conservative” side does have an agenda hence they thnk that their enemies do too.
No one wants Trans athletes Otto. All my moderate friends that you would call extreme left don’t like pronouns and pandering to the emotional weak. We don’t want open borders or China to drop another virus from a weather balloon. We are not your enemy.
If only you could see beyond us and them.
Glad to know they feel that way. So when do you figure they’ll actually stand up and voice their discontent?