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.
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.she believes she is speaking up for other pro surfer women who fear being"ostracized" for having the same opinions.
Hamilton argued that moving forward with these policies in surfing would allow for “male-bodied dominance” seen in other “women’s sports like running, swimming, and others.” Multiple studies in recent years have looked at whether transgender athletes have competitive advantages., a trans competitive runner and medical physicist, published a first-of-its-kind study in 2015 that looked at eight trans women runners who took treatments to lower their testosterone levels and found they did not perform better in several women's races than they did in men's races.
Harper, who continues to study athletic performances of transgender people and serves as an advisor to the International Olympic Committee, that most research, even her own studies, has nuances and conversations should be had in the greater context of sports as a whole.
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