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Bethany Hamilton Says She'll Boycott World Surf League Events Because of Policies Allowing Trans Women to Compete
NBC News ^ | 02/10/2023 | NBC News

Posted on 02/10/2023 10:22:17 AM PST by Robwin

Pro surfer Bethany Hamilton says she does not intend to participate in upcoming World Surf League events after the organization announced a change in policies that will allow trans women to compete in women's events.

In two different videos shared to Instagram, Hamilton said she believes she is speaking up for other pro surfer women who fear being "ostracized" for having the same opinions.

The World Surf League this month announced plans to adopt the International Surfing Association’s policy, which requires trans athletes seeking to compete in the women’s division to maintain a testosterone level less than 5 nonomoles per liter (nmol/L) for the previous 12 months.

In her video, Hamilton questioned this policy. “Is a hormone level an honest and accurate depiction that someone indeed is a male or female? Is it as simple as this?” she asked. In her follow up video, she questioned the policy again. "Am I just a hormone number? Is it as simple as that?"

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Sports
KEYWORDS: bethanyhamilton; surfing; trans
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Good for her. How I wish all female competitors would stand up to this nonsense and simply declare they won't ber a part of it. That would end it right quick. I do recognize , however, the pressures brought on these athletes by the PC crowd as noted in the story.

You may recall Bethany as the young woman who lost one of her arms to a shark attack, but who came back from that to become a world cjhampion in surfing.

1 posted on 02/10/2023 10:22:17 AM PST by Robwin
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To: Robwin

Why?

Women are equal and want equal pay.


2 posted on 02/10/2023 10:23:34 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Robwin

We watched a docudrama about her a few years ago. It was pretty apparent she came from a strong Christian family.


3 posted on 02/10/2023 10:26:40 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: Robwin

Bless her heart. I hope people listen. Surfing has gone way too far left for me. My fav way of life/sport has been taken over by hipsters and immoral virtue signaling fools.


4 posted on 02/10/2023 10:27:08 AM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Robwin

👍🏄


5 posted on 02/10/2023 10:29:16 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Karliner

May the Lord bless her!


6 posted on 02/10/2023 10:29:35 AM PST by bboise
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To: Robwin

Good for her. All genuine women should just sit one year of everything out.

Imagine the videos.


7 posted on 02/10/2023 10:36:20 AM PST by MarMema (Orange Putin Bad)
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To: bboise
He has.


8 posted on 02/10/2023 10:38:18 AM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: bboise

The Lord has blessed her in spite of her lost arm. She is an amazing athlete. She stands 5’11” and coordinates that tall frame remarkably. Oh, and she is married with three children and continues to share the Gospel.


9 posted on 02/10/2023 10:42:22 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: Robwin

That’s how you fix it but it’ll take a majority to be effective


10 posted on 02/10/2023 10:45:19 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Robwin

This is the only way to end this madness.


11 posted on 02/10/2023 10:49:20 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Robwin

What is a ‘nonomole’ other than a typo?


12 posted on 02/10/2023 10:50:12 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: Robwin

It has to be done. It’s the only way to stop this stuff.


13 posted on 02/10/2023 10:54:42 AM PST by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: sasquatch

Probably a typo for nanomole. A mole is 6.02E+23 of something, and is a standard SI unit. It’s commonly used in chemistry referring to a number of atoms or molecules. Deriving the meaning of nanomole is left as an exercise to the reader.


14 posted on 02/10/2023 10:56:48 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Robwin

All the women should boycott.


15 posted on 02/10/2023 11:05:30 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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She refuses to commission the Sodomite insanity of Transgenderism in her sport. Even at the expense of her passion…

Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. 39He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
16 posted on 02/10/2023 11:07:37 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: EEGator

Her boycott will be meaningless unless all the other women follow. It’s up to them, and they may as well understand that the brandon gang would prefer to send ukraine weapons for their war than to women for their war.


17 posted on 02/10/2023 11:37:34 AM PST by DPMD (ua)
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I do understand why she would do it.
Most can’t afford to unless they already have money.
I know the names of zero professional female surfers except her, and hers is known for the price she paid…
I think the vast majority of people know men are physically dominant.
More so men than women.
Anytime I see some cute white girl go trail running, I hope she knows tv and movies are BS…

Our society is extremely disturbed at this point.
It would have been nice if people stepped up way before this, like when inferior women wanted to serve in combat MOS positions.
The destruction of our military means a lot more to me than chick surfing.


18 posted on 02/10/2023 11:45:51 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I agree about the military. But I also think it’s about a little more than chick surfing. It’s a war on gender, and women are the main victims. And unless they join up en masse to fight by boycotts and other means, it’ll be lost because human nature guarantees that it will get worse. If we don’t value women as co-inhabitors of the earth with us, we don’t survive, as they gradually get wiped out by pretenders who are incapable of reproducing.


19 posted on 02/11/2023 3:34:42 PM PST by DPMD (ua)
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To: DPMD

We are here because of women voting.
They were fine with faggots getting married.
They were fine with initiating the vast majority of divorces.
They were fine with the 1965 Immigration Act.
They want free government money.

They are the ones responsible for the problem, and they are responsible for fixing it. After a couple dozen times of seeing far superior men passed up for promotion for women and minorities, I quit caring.
This is the world they created.


20 posted on 02/11/2023 3:44:51 PM PST by EEGator
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