Posted on 08/01/2021 7:25:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Laurel Hubbard is set to make history when she competes as the first openly transgender athlete at an Olympic Games.
The New Zealander will take the stage on August 2 for the women's super heavyweight +87kg weightlifting event.
At 43 years old, Hubbard is also set to be the oldest weightlifter competing in the sport at the Tokyo games.
Her father, Dick Hubbard, was a wealthy cereal company magnate and briefly served as Auckland's mayor from 2004 to 2008.
Hubbard revealed she took up "an archetypally male" sport in a bid to feel more masculine.
"I thought perhaps if I tried something that was so masculine perhaps that's what I would become,'' she told Radio New Zealand in 2017. "But sadly, that wasn't the case.... sad in the sense that maybe it would have made some of the darker periods in my life a bit more manageable."
Before that, Hubbard took part in male weightlifting competitions. After transitioning, she began competing in international weightlifting events.
Three years later in 2001, Hubbard withdrew from the sport, explaining that it "became too much to bear ... just the pressure of trying to fit into a world that perhaps wasn't really set up for people like myself."
In 2017, the New Zealander competed internationally as Laurel Hubbard for the first time. She took home the gold medal at the Australian International championships in the heaviest women's division, lifting 123kg in the snatch discipline and 145kg in the clean and jerk
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Okay, the pictures told me what I suspected reading the piece.
You know, I’m really good at the Nintendo port of Contra, I can beat the game...after entering the Konami code and getting 30 lives as opposed to the usual three.
Freak
I hope he wins gold and destroys women’s sports forever.
Not many (any?) “trans-men” competing at high levels of sport. Shocking. Not.
Congratulations, you are a dude that can beat girls at weightlifting.
Transgender is removed from Trans-dragon only by degree. In addition to hormone therapy, reconstruction, and prosthesis, the latter also suggests the need for an ignition source and fuel supply.
Every female competing should show up at the competition and refuse to participate.
It’s the only way to end this insanity.
Its mental illness
Both men AND women who do this
But we only focus on the men because now the women are incovenienced and experiencing negatives frommit
They pushed this onto society, tolerate them, they are harmless, they have rights too, they just want to be left alone, theyre nice people, leave them alone you haters.
Guys used to take care of these people. So did psychologists.
Live with it gals. Or be against ALL trannies because its wrong no matter if men do it or women do it, not because you cant win events anymore.
So, I’m confused.There is a transgender person (female who thinks she is male, although she claims to be non-binary... whatever that means) who is on the Canadian women’s soccer team. If she thinks she is male, then shouldn’t she have to try out for the men’s soccer team?
Yes, the trans men somehow don’t make it on the men’s teams. Funny how that works.
pretty sure I agree with comment #1.
This is horse crap.
Allowing freak shows claiming to be females to play as a girl is crappola.
If this is the way of the Olympics, then to hell with em.
Again, it is crappola.
The agenda is to cause confusion. Insane dudes who claim they are chicks will destroy the lesbian paradise that is women’s sports. Nothing keeps Megan Rappinoe from competing on the men’s team except a lack of ability. “Trans men” cannot compete because biology. It’s like that high school girl in TX who wrestles as a girl while taking testosterone injections (a/k/a “cheating” in any other context). Multiple state championships.
T-shirt to be worn by any transgender creature in any sport. Caption: I’ve lost before. Today I was beat by a real girl!
Somehow I thought the Olympics would say “You’ve got to be kidding!” to this woke nonsense.
Quote by transgender “athlete” after rough competition: This is starting to itch. I been a shave.
That is hilarious!
In case you missed these gems from The Babylon Bee.
Womens world record about to double never to be exceeded for all time by anybody with ovaries
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