Posted on 07/30/2021 7:26:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reaffirmed its full support of transgender athletes Friday when medical director Richard Budgett declared “transwomen are women” and should be included in women’s sport “when we possibly can.”
“After 100 years of promoting women’s sport, it’s up to each of the international federations to ensure that they try and protect women’s sport,” he told a briefing in Tokyo. “Science will help, experience will help, and time will help.”
Budgett spoke as New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard prepared to become the first openly transgender woman at the Olympics when she competes in the +87kg category on Monday, as AFP reports.
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The 43-year-old was born male and competed as a man before transitioning to female in her 30s, taking up the sport at elite level again after meeting IOC guidelines for transgender athletes and sparking a global response.
New Zealand Olympic Committee spokeswoman Ashley Abbott said Hubbard was keeping a low profile in Japan, despite the “particularly high level of interest” in her Olympic debut.
While she acknowledged Hubbard’s appearance raised complex issues, the AFP report said Abbott also pointed out: “We all need to remember that there’s a person behind all these technical questions.”
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Is there a muscle pull in his future?
It’s a mystery to me......................
Hopefully a HERnia......................
Can you imagine now why many in the developing world, Eastern Europe, etc.... see the West as hopelessly corrupt?
I have spent zero minutes watching these Olympics.
They went woke, so I refuse to watch that crap.
I can see why China is encouraging this......................
Another example that leftism is truly a severe & violent mental disorder.
Yes, what you said.
If the IOC is SERIOUS about this, then I expect these to be the last real Olympics, ever.
Just so wrong. What’s wrong with a court system that says this is “justice”. There’s nothing just about it. The scale is broken!!
“We all need to remember that there’s a person behind all these technical questions.”
That person is Satan.
“The first Olympic Games to feature female athletes was the 1900 Games in Paris. Hélène de Pourtalès of Switzerland became the first woman to compete at the Olympic Games and became the first female Olympic champion, as a member of the winning team in the first 1 to 2 ton sailing event on May 22, 1900.”
121 years. The end of Olympics for women, 2021.
Now, only transvestite perverts can compete as women.
Likewise. No freak show Wokelympics for me.
A well timed air horn would go over well? It works in golf. /h
Good. Let the fat slob guy stroll into the Olympics and slaughter all the real ladies who have trained their whole lives. It will be a good object lesson for all the delusional people who think they can wish away reality.
I left figures they will force this on all the sane people and I guess as long as there is no substantial push back they can do what they want.
XX and XY.
Female and Male.
Everything else is varying degrees and flavors of mental illness.
Does Kiwi have a peewee?
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