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.
Like I said the IOC and NCAA implode on the same day. The whole world will now see men competing in Women’s sports at the Olympics. The NCAA has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar profiting from college athletes names and likenesses in video games. Not all of them are scholarship athletes!
A liar, a cheat, and a thief.
Ah, male pattern baldness. The hallmark of every woman.
just one more reason I won’t pay it any attention.
I question the worth of tolerating this insanity.
I think woman brought this on themselves effeminize men.
competed as a man until 2013 when he realized that his losing worst lift could be a winner in the women’s categories.
Insane men claiming to be women will destroy women's sports. Maybe that will be enough to knock some sense into stupid liberals.
But seeing as how they're stupid liberals, maybe not.
ML/NJ
Let me know if any pretend “woman” athlete ever addresses that question.
Only if Rapinhoe plays.
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