{"id":1836450,"date":"2023-02-06T08:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836450"},"modified":"2023-02-06T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:20:07","slug":"surfing-legend-bethany-hamilton-speaks-out-on-allowing-trans-women-to-compete-against-biological-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/surfing-legend-bethany-hamilton-speaks-out-on-allowing-trans-women-to-compete-against-biological-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Legend Bethany Hamilton Speaks Out On Allowing Trans Women To Compete Against Biological Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsurfing-legend-bethany-hamilton-speaks-out-on-allowing-trans-women-to-compete-against-biological-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836450&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Surfing champion Bethany Hamilton spoke out over the weekend about the World Surf League\u2019s new policy allowing transgender women to compete against biological females in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton was attacked by a 14-foot tiger shark in 2003, but she did not lose her left arm. She has won numerous national championships since then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World Surf League has officially made the rule that male-bodied individuals known as transgender athletes can officially compete in the women\u2019s division,\u201d She spoke. \u201cThe World Surf League says they are following the Olympic guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She explained that, while she loves all people, she was worried about biological men being able to compete with biological women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that I must speak up and stand up for those in a position that may feel that they cannot say something about this,\u201d She went on. \u201cI think many of the girls currently on tour are not in support with this new rule, and they fear being ostracized if they speak up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton asked the league a series of questions about the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow is this rule playing out in other sports like swimming, running, MMA?\u201d She asked. \u201cHave any of the current surfers in the World Surf League been asked what their thoughts and opinions are on this new rule before it was passed or announced? Should there be a conversation with the 17 women and all of the men on tour prior to a rule change such as this? Is a hormone level an honest and accurate depiction that someone indeed is a male or female? \u2026 Who is pushing for this huge change? Does this better the sport of surfing? Is this better for the woman in surfing? If so, how? How did whoever decided these hormone rules come to the conclusion that 12 months of testing testosterone make it a fair and legal switch? Why is the WSL statement about trans women competing with women and yet there\u2019s no mention of converted women competing with men?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton stated that she believes creating a separate division to accommodate trans athletes is the best solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s really hard to imagine what the future of women\u2019s surfing will be like in 15 to 20 years down the road if we move forward in allowing this major change,\u201d She concluded. \u201cBut we are seeing glimpses of male-bodied dominance in women\u2019s sports like running, swimming and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally won\u2019t be competing in or supporting the World Surf League if this rule remains,\u201d She continued.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bethany Hamilton, a surfing champion, responds to the World Surf League\u2019s new policy that allows biological men to claim to be women to compete against females. &#8220;I personally won&#8217;t be competing in or supporting the World Surf League if this rule remains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JBCxAcbd2T\">pic.twitter.com\/JBCxAcbd2T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1622384540487680000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2023<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing champion Bethany Hamilton spoke out over the weekend about the World Surf League\u2019s new policy allowing transgender women to compete against biological females in the sport. Hamilton lost her left arm to a 14-foot tiger shark in 2003 but was unfazed by the attack. She has since won multiple national championships. \u201cThe World Surf &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1836453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5028,17752,11826,6978,11172,9610,3625,12880,7037,5605],"class_list":["post-1836450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-allowing","tag-bethany","tag-biological","tag-compete","tag-hamilton","tag-legend","tag-speaks","tag-surfing","tag-trans","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}