“It was so confronting… That whole thing was a colossal mess.”
The two-time world champ Tyler Wright, who is three heats away from winning a third crown, has given a bombshell interview with Australia’s Fairfax Press, revealing more detail on her troubled relationship with Daddy Rob, why surf culture sucks and, in a devastating blow to the WSL, how she was silenced over her views on trannies in sport.
Wright, who is twenty-nine, sure don’t hold back when she gets the mic, welcome given the stiffness of surfer media interviews although her views are not always popular with the proletariat who, rightly or wrongly, don’t see the problem in someone being pushed into a sport that has made them a world champ and a millionaire.
Anyway, you know an interview with Tyler ain’t gonna be dull.
In the story, she fires fusillade after fusillade, at culture, her daddy, the WSL etc.
“Sometimes I get so let down by the surfing community that I feel like quitting.”
“I thought I was gonna die.”
“When I look at surfing, for years I wrestled with my anger towards surfing because of how it’s positioned itself in the world of progressiveness. ‘We’re counterculture, we’re inclusive… My experience of surfing from a young age was definitely not that.”
“I think WSL having the (trans) policy is amazing. It’s inclusive, it’s moving forward … But it was so confronting, that to a certain extent I was being told to keep quiet, keep my head down because of this blow-up.I didn’t say much and I still don’t, [because] obviously it’s wildly confronting for someone like me to be in the crossroads of this.”
“I believe in inclusivity and equality. It doesn’t just come and go when I like it.”
“You know what I did? I quietly quit in certain spaces. But not in the spaces that matter most to me.”
“Sometimes I get an hour to take some pain relief. Other times I get nothing, my body goes into such severe pain and shock that I’ll just start throwing up.”
A little warm-up read for Finals Day tomoz!
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Confronting confusion
She’s not Wright.
GOLD*
Haha, I love a Tyler a story on BG to bring all the sooks out
She’s the kook.
Yeah a kook. Meanwhile she has 2 x world titles and you’re an incel in a website comments section
I’m actually a published writer on this very website!
And if you read that very entertaining tale of Pipeline chaos you’d know that I am, in fact, married.
I’m also way less fucking annoying than Tyler.
Why didn’t you say so, haha. You wouldn’t be the only published writer who is a kook on this website. We’ve seen the wave pool footage.
Your wife definitely thinks you’re more annoying than Tyler.
Clearly the only taste you have is in your mouth.
Is it still OK
To tell someone to shut up
If they annoy you?
when has surfing ever tried to position itself as being inclusive? asides from the wsl tsunami of positivity that is. it’s always been exclusive and proud of it.
How many other professional sports have competitors from six of the seven continents? How many of those sports have competitions compete six of those seven continents?
I dunno, tennis, golf, athletics, swimming and soccer?
Tennis and golf, definitely but soccer is only truly global once every four years.
But surfing is more global than the NFL, right?
calling surfing a professional sport is insulting.
There are professional bowlers and bowling ain’t a sport.
“I didnt say much, and i still dont”!!!
Tyler is rapidly turning into the new Jana Pitman (insufferable Australian athletics star).
I mean fuck Tyler, you reckon you’ve had it bad, trying being that poor girl in Afghanistan or Pakistan who got shot in the face by the Taliban.
Why are lesbians always so grumpy?
In defence of Jana, it was a joint effort between herself and the media which made her insufferable. Tyler did this all by herself.
Just drove by the kook….no 99 jersey on it….get on it derek, ur a Cardiff kook arent u?
Aawww jeez, spare me days, you stupid, spoiled cow.
Get over yerself…
I feel sorry for lily. Imagine having to put up with this giant sponge everyday.
What do you call a de-sexed dog?
Come here boy!
Tyler’s interviews always remind me of when I’m forced to be teachery and tell off a kid but I don’t care about whatever the contravention is and so I’m just saying strings of words that might fit but wondering where I’m going or why I’m talking at all and eventually the pupil glazes over or just looks confused and so do I and then the conversation ends and neither of us understand what the point of it was.
Like reading this comment?
The omission of punctuation wasn’t an accident.
The Joe Turpel Longest Sentence of the Week Award !
Take a bow, JP!
Why are they running tommoz?
Since when is the decision known before the morning surf check?
You ever see 3 siblings that share zero physical tRaits, but all have some mystery health dramas?
Least Mikey doesn’t talk, but he may be embarrassed by Leo’s dominance over him.
Owens wife is a rock star no one has heard of.
Just odd.
Like Tired of Winnings political flip flopping.
Something is definitely up with the Hemsworth brothers. That midget one from West World looks nothing like the others.
I see similarities in Owen and Tyler. Same gummy smile.
Just like Rapinoe, she’ll never compete against a biological male, so it’s easy to be Ok with allowing them into your sport.
She got smoked by a high school boys team a few years ago but that didn’t stop her from continuing to be insufferable.
Oh my, Tyler says a lot of words but they don’t make a lot of sense.
Yuk.
Distinguishing the difference between being silenced, and being told to shut the fuck up because you’re annoying, can be difficult