Bethany Hamilton shouldn’t be on board with the World Surf League’s (WSL) new coverage on transgender athletes (no pun supposed).

Hamilton, who misplaced an arm in a shark assault on the age of 13 however went on to grow to be a world-class surfer, criticized the WSL for permitting transgendered females to surf within the girls’s division. The WSL introduced final week that transgender surfers should preserve low testosterone ranges for roughly a yr earlier than they will compete.

“The WSL is working arduous to stability fairness and equity and it’s vital for a coverage to be in place,” WSL Chief of Sport Jessi Miley-Dyer mentioned. “We acknowledge that the coverage could must evolve over time as we get suggestions and see new analysis within the area.” 

Hamilton rapidly offered some “suggestions” on Twitter, wherein she acknowledged she wouldn’t compete within the WSL if she had been compelled to compete in opposition to males.

Browsing champion Bethany Hamilton has simply introduced she’s going to NOT compete within the World Surf League anymore if they permit organic males to surf within the girls’s occasions. She’s already an absolute legend however this stand makes her much more of a legend. Thanks @bethanyhamilton! pic.twitter.com/gF2qa7cD84

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) February 5, 2023

“I personally gained’t be competing in, or supporting, the World Surf League if this rule stays,” Hamilton mentioned.

I don’t know what analysis or suggestions you want aside from that. However along with Hamilton’s phrases, any time transgenders have been permitted to compete in girls’s sports activities, the reception has been largely damaging.

Followers and athletes don’t prefer it when Lia Thomas participates within the girls’s division of collegiate swimming, or when male observe athletes can compete in opposition to females in Connecticut, or when transgenders compete alongside girls in world-level shot put occasions. 

That is as a result of most individuals perceive that transgenders are harming girls of their seek for “equality.” Fortunately, we have now individuals like Hamilton that rebuke stupidity like this and say what most of us are pondering.