Posted on 06/21/2021 6:47:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was selected to be part of the Olympic team this year.
Hubbard participated as a man in the sport before her transition in 2013.
Laurel won her first international women’s weightlifting title in Australia in 2017 breaking four national records in the process.
Transgender weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard wins Gold at Australasian Championships.
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The Daily Mail reported:
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has been selected to be part of the country’s team for the Tokyo Olympic Games, becoming the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the event after qualifying requirements were modified.
Hubbard will compete in the women’s 87-kg category, the New Zealand Olympic Committee said in a statement.
‘I am grateful and humbled by the kindness and support that has been given to me by so many New Zealanders,’ Hubbard said in the statement.
The 43-year-old had competed in men’s weightlifting competitions before transitioning in 2013.
She has been eligible to compete in the Olympics since 2015, when the International Olympic Committee issued guidelines allowing any transgender athlete to compete as a woman provided their testosterone levels are below 10 nanomoles per litre for at least 12 months before their first competition.
Translation: Us New Zealanders can’t compete with other men. We win only if we’re girly men.
I think its coming to the point where we won’t be able to say that the west is right and the east is wrong
So oink shoes is all it takes? Where are the “transmen” taking on real men in sports if gender is just a construct?
Way back in Ancient Greece, when the first olympics were held, only men could compete. Looks like we’re returning to that practice.
And they competed naked.
I am kinda rooting for all the trans men to win gold medals in the Women’s sports they participate in at the Tokyo Olympics.
That will prove how these woke Olympic officials are killing women’s sports.
How different is it, really, to go from what has been competing in women’s olympics to transvestite men?
This has been a work in progress.
The IOC and NCAA implode on the same day!
Chicks with dicks competing against real chicks.
Wait, wait, wait
Hold on a moment
I was told, commanded for repeat the phrase “a woman an do anything a man can, as well as, or better”
Now they are getting exactly that opportunity.
You mean to tell me that we were forced to celebrate a lie?
All weightlifting gold medals that this heshe “wins” better be smelted from iron-pyrite
Yeah its ironic how they whine and howl about competing with men, but have no problems infiltrating boys sports. Goose meet Gander. Reverse feminism in action.
Anything you can do I can do better. I can do anything better than you! Wanna bet?
Still competing as a man just cheating so he can win in the women’s division.. must of lost last time.
He defeated a Maori woman to qualify. So a white transgender athlete trumps a normal Pacific Islander? Where is the social justice here? She was an excellent athlete and apparently a very likable person.
We need to return the gold medals to the East Germans.
Why is anyone bent out of shape over this. Feminists have been pushing for equal pay for equal work. This dude decided he would do womens work and get the same rewards as a woman would doing it. This is exactly what feminists wanted. Id pay to see men playing soccer on the us womens team. Karma aint your friend if you’re an ass to people.
IOC is corrupt so we might as well as allow woke officials to kill the Olympics by allowing male athletes to compete as “women”.
Follow the money......
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