Becoming Westerly: New book traces trans journey of champion surferhttp://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/arts/becoming-westerly-peter-drouyn-hunger/CNN/By Holly Fraser,
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" (CNN)—In the 60s and 70s Australian Peter Drouyn was one of the most famous surfers in the world, a pro at the sport who pioneered a new approach which became known as "aggressive surfing" and who was followed by legions of fans.
Today, though, by all accounts Peter Drouyn is dead. For the last decade Peter has been living life as a woman known as Westerly Windina.
In 2009 Jamie Brisick, a surf journalist who had been aware of Peter, travelled to Australia to write a profile of Westerly, but what what consequently happened became a far greater story than that."