“Sasha Jane Lowerson just wanted to surf.”
A “battle” is raging in Huntington Beach, California, reports the LA Times after the transgender surfer Sasha Jane Lowerson was, first, banned from surfing in the women’s div of a longboard contest, before the decision was overturned by the California Coastal Commission.
Last month, the founder of American Longboarder Todd Messick got wind that the celebrated transgender surfer Sasha Jane Lowerson, who was one of Australia’s leading male longboarders, even winning the men’s longboard div as Ryan Egan before transitioning four years ago and joining the women’s side of the draw, had entered the HB Longboarding Pro.
Messick didn’t fuck around.
“Right now, we’re going to support biological males and biological females in their divisions respectively,” he said in a video posted online, which quickly earned four thousand likes.
“If you were born a female, you enter in the women’s. If you’re born a male, you enter in the men’s.”
He added, nothing personal to T-Girls but,
“I want to offer an equal playing field for all athletes and that’s the stand we’re taking so I hope that everybody respects that and allows us to just do our thing. This whole thing is about traditional longboard surfing and supporting that so that’s what we’re here to do.”
Anyway, Messick’s dream of bio-gals only in the women’s div was overturned by the California Coastal Commission, with the LA Times’ Hanna Fry writing:
“Sasha Jane Lowerson just wanted to surf.”
And, now, Sasha Jane Lowerson, fresh from facial feminisation surgery in Cordoba, Argentina, has posted a lengthy screed on Instagram calling Messick’s decision “shameful and shady”.
As I walk my journey through the turmoil and the implications of people that want to spread misinformation, I’ve found myself wondering why? Just why to people hate me for existing!
I decided to enter a surfing event here in California that is due to run in a few weeks and unfortunately they have decided to cherry pick the ISA rule book. The organisers made a public announcement saying I wasn’t allowed to participate in the women’s division after I had already payed my entry fee a month earlier and even though Surfing America and ISA rule book states my inclusion in the women’s division is valid!
On March 9 2023 the international surfing Association released a formal and legal statement concerning the ruling of inclusion of people of diverse gender and mainly around transgender women to legally update the rule book. They had formally and legally declared the inclusion of people of diverse gender within surfing at an elite level prior in October 2022.
In this legal article in section 3.1 and .2 its states the requirements for a transgender woman to compete in the women’s division and I have met all those provisions for the last 3 & 1/2 years.
it really saddens me and actually sickens me when an organisation or a so-called league starts up and promotes events under the premise of for the better of the sport stating they will use the ISA rulebook and then they decide to just cherry pick what rules they want and don’t want to use.
It leaves me to believe that they would not stop at anything to let any rules slip or slide or adding anything they want to add in at any point of time if that’s the behaviour that they’re going to demonstrate from the beginning.
It’s pretty shameful and shady really!
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and coo coo cool is what coo coo people try to to be when even they can’t accep themselves
Haha, “edgy” is cool …. coo coo cool…
Haha, yeah, but I`m not the one pretending I`m somethig I am not… that IS sad…
Yeah, I know… facts don’t care about men with wigs feelings either….
Only “trans fems” are not fems… never were, never will.
Once it was an insult to call someone an “it”.
No one is stopping it surfing. It is being stopped from drawing attention to itself, kinda sorta
a female friend of mine is big into competitive BJJ. she recently got tossed around by a T-gal and afterwards ‘she’ literally said “I enjoy BJJ a lot more now I always win”
Because males are better at both chess and darts than females. Something to do with evolution: complex hunting strategies (chess) and chucking spears (darts). Meanwhile the babes are better at other things, like cartwheels and interpersonal relationships.
Amazing how invested people are in regional longboarding contests these days. The sport must be thriving.
You’re so pretty when you’re unfaithful to me!
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Caitlyn don’t surf.
LOL nice try. You know you’re spouting bullshit.
I won’t argue over facts. That’s just stupid.
“Neck down evolution” is pretty silly thinking, whether it emerges from philosophers or social ‘scientists’.
For better or worse, our genes and our prenatal development set us up for a lifetime of characteristics, before we are even born.
Math class and the weight room can build on what we have, but especially at the extremes like the NBA or ICF, you’ll find characteristics that are set by the time we’re born.
Women’s sports are part of a greater cause for women: options.
Women can still be mothers and can still be honored for that role when they do it well. It’s not like men’s sports rob anyone of the option to be a father, either.
Are you aware of the stats in chess?
It appears that set the far right tail of the performance curve, men have an advantage.
They could all beat you and me, but Grandmaster v Grandmaster, there’s something about testosterone and brain development that gives a very slight edge — enough to matter at that level of chess play.
Nobody is saying Sasha shouldn’t be allowed to surf.
Total straw man.
That’s AFTER facial feminization surgery?
I hope it was cheap.
looking at the upvotes it appears some people did read it….and it’s not a diatribe, just a contrary opine.
I’ve never actually heard anyone talk like this, especially in the surfing community. You must be from Byron Bay
just a few miles away actually.
North Shore, Oahu
As they say about the first track on surfer rosa (bone machine): it sounds like you’re standing in the same room as the drummer.