‘Stop the Insanity’: Fans, Media Erupt After Laurel Hubbard Becomes First Trans Athlete to Compete at Olympics

Breitbart ^ | June 21 | WARNER TODD HUSTON

[RandFan]

Reactions are piling up after it was reported that the International Olympics Committee had approved Laurel Hubbard, a male who identifies as a woman, to become the first trans athlete to compete in the Olympics.

Hubbard, 43, transitioned in 2012 and has been competing in New Zealand and would have been on New Zealand’s last Olympics team if it wasn’t for an injury that prevented it.

Hubbard’s inclusion at the Tokyo games has engendered much criticism.

Belgian Olympian Anna Vanbellinghen, for instance, said it is a “bad joke” that Hubbard will advance to the Olympics as a female contestant.

“I understand that for sports authorities, nothing is as simple as following your common sense and that there are a lot of impracticalities when studying such a rare phenomenon, but for athletes, the whole thing feels like a bad joke,” Vanbellinghen said, according to InsideTheGames.

[cgbg]

Olympic boycott bump...

[Leaning Right]

If this guy is able to compete in a women’s sport, then I should be able to compete in my favorite sport (skee-ball) as a woman as well. I’m very good at skee-ball, and an Olympic medal would look great in my trophy room.

Oh, wait. Is skee-ball an Olympic sport? I’d better check on that before going out and buying a dress.

I’m the guy in the red shirt. That poor woman doesn’t stand a chance.

[JonPreston]

I vote to keep it.

[P-Marlowe]

The whole world has lost its mind.

[outofsalt]

"Hubbard, 43, transitioned in 2012 and has been competing in New Zealand and would have been on New Zealand’s last Olympics team if it wasn’t for an injury that prevented it."

Paging Tonya Harding and Shane Stant. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Have we already forgotten Henrich-Dora Ratjen who competed as a woman with the nazi blessing in 1936?

Henrich Ratjen clothed as a woman. Police photo.
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Henrich-Dora nude police photo.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tC9qAwLWkBM/UCTjtQWlwDI/AAAAAAAAaC8/efi5Z5j6-eM/s1600/Dora%20politiefoto%202.jpg

[texas booster]

Female Weightlifter Suffers Tragic Testicle Injury Just Weeks Before Tokyo Olympics

So once again the Bee posts more factual news than anyone else.

It hasn't happened yet but give it a couple of weeks.

[Theophilus]

It kind of surpising that none of the male weightlifters have had to drop out to protect their pregnancies.

[texas booster]

Indeed. I have always wondered why none of the women involved in Olympic weightlifting don't try to compete with Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the (extra) big dude from the Game of Thrones series. Or better yet, let him feel all that estrogen running in his veins and let him/her try out for the babe side.