{"id":1979,"date":"2008-09-30T04:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T11:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2008-09-30T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T16:18:33","slug":"surfer-rides-new-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"Surfer Rides New Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/surferbarcroft-450x300.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/surferbarcroft-450x300.jpg','popup','width=450,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/surferbarcroft-450x300-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surferbarcroft 450X300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1970 surfer <strong>Peter Drouyn<\/strong> was the number one ranked surfer in the world: for men. Now the 58-year-old Australian is &#8220;transforming himself into a lookalike of voluptuous Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. . . and going by the name of Westerly,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/article.html?Sex-change_surfer_still_making_waves&amp;in_article_id=330497&amp;in_page_id=34\" target=\"_blank\">Metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The retired legend, from Sydney, said his male hormones had gradually &#8216;drained from his body and been replaced by female hormones&#8217; over the past eight years. . . . &#8216;It hasn&#8217;t been intentional. It&#8217;s totally natural, with no medication or hormone therapies, no enhancements and no advice. . . . It&#8217;s just happening,&#8217; he said. . . . &#8216;It&#8217;s a strange phenomenon. This is all happening for a purpose.&#8217; And he plans to undergo gender reassignment, which he hopes will be his &#8216;rebirth as a human&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, he&#8217;s serious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/article.html?Sex-change_surfer_still_making_waves&amp;in_article_id=330497&amp;in_page_id=34\" target=\"_blank\">Metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1970 surfer Peter Drouyn was the number one ranked surfer in the world: for men. Now the 58-year-old Australian is &#8220;transforming himself into a lookalike of voluptuous Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. . . and going by the name of Westerly,&#8221; according to a story on Metro.co.uk. The retired legend, from Sydney, said his male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}