{"id":9584,"date":"2009-07-31T09:55:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9584"},"modified":"2009-07-31T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T16:55:48","slug":"westerly-windina-rides-the-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9584","title":{"rendered":"Westerly Windina: Rides The Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/331245.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/331245.jpg','popup','width=237,height=355,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\/2009\/07\/331245-tm.jpg\" height=\"299\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"331245\" \/><\/a>Former Australian Junior Surfing Champion <strong>Peter Drouyn<\/strong> (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1979\" target=\"_blank\">who we mentioned in September 2008<\/a><\/strong>) never felt like a &#8220;real boy or man&#8221; according to a <strong>Samantha Turnbull<\/strong> story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2009\/08\/01\/103851_gold-coast-feature.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong>. Now, as <strong>Westerly Windina<\/strong>, the creator of the <strong>Stubbies Classic at Burleigh Head<\/strong> and the inventor of the &#8220;man-on-man&#8221; surf contest format talks about how becoming a woman has finally put her at peace.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Drouyn no longer exists. In his place is Tweed Heads transsexual lawyer <strong>Westerly Windina<\/strong> who says Mr Drouyn was never a real boy or man. . . &#8220;I&#8217;d always had a deep suspicion something wasn&#8217;t right,&#8221; said Ms Windina. . . &#8220;I was always an emotional butterfly, very sensitive. My mum put high heels on me and painted my nails as a child and I was in awe of her beauty and glamour, I wanted to be like her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Westerly is happy, we&#8217;re happy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcoast.com.au\/article\/2009\/08\/01\/103851_gold-coast-feature.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldcoast.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian Junior Surfing Champion Peter Drouyn (who we mentioned in September 2008) never felt like a &#8220;real boy or man&#8221; according to a Samantha Turnbull story on Goldcoast.com.au. Now, as Westerly Windina, the creator of the Stubbies Classic at Burleigh Head and the inventor of the &#8220;man-on-man&#8221; surf contest format talks about how becoming [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9586,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9584\/revisions\/9586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}