Few female athletes have the ear of America, much less the world, in the way Bethany Hamilton does.
With more than 1 million followers on Twitter, 2 million on Instagram, and two movies telling her story, when Hamilton speaks, people listen, which is something Hamilton appears to have been counting on when sharing a recent post on her Instagram account.
After the World Surf League announced it would allow men to compete in women’s sports if they maintain low levels of testosterone for a year, Hamilton announced she “won’t be competing in or supporting the World Surf League if this rule remains.”
The policy states that a surfer must maintain a “serum testosterone concentration … less than 5 [nanomoles per liter] continuously for a period of the previous 12 months.”
