A Peter Drouyn moment seared into my head for all eternity: We’re in the lounge room of Peter’s home on the Gold Coast, Peter seated in a chair, film director Alan White and I standing behind a camera on a tripod. We’d followed Westerly Windina to Bangkok for their gender reassignment surgery, and to the 50th anniversary of the Surfing Australia Awards, where, much to their surprise, they were embraced gushingly. Most recently, we’d learned that Westerly had transitioned back to Peter. Alan and I travelled from LA to the Gold Coast to find out why. Westerly was a dreamer. Along with bursts of self-liberation they’d hoped to kickstart a career in showbiz – “singing and comedy sketches.”
After explaining how they’d fallen into a post-surgery depression – “a year-and-a-half…
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