Surfer and Book Author Bethany Hamilton is speaking out against the World Surf League's new policy, allowing male-bodied transgender women to compete with biological women. The well-known book author and survivor of a shark attack that required her to have her arm amputated faced the sport’s decision on social media, asking if this rule was "better for the women in surfing?".

Hamilton’s questioning of the policy also caught the attention of best-selling author Jamie Tworkowskie. He responded to her post on social media, posing the question; “Which bothers you more: the purely hypothetical crisis that trans folks are coming to take over the women’s tour? Or the possibility that a living breathing transgender human being, hoping for love and acceptance, would read these comments and feel like even more of an outsider?”

Jamie Tworkowski,