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Trans woman weightlifter cleared to compete in Tokyo Olympics
New York Post ^ | July 17, 2021 | Jon Levine

Posted on 07/18/2021 11:55:34 PM PDT by KingofZion

The International Olympic Committee has cleared a transgender athlete to compete in the upcoming Tokyo games.

The IOC ruled Saturday that Laurel Hubbard, 43, who is a biological man, can compete for New Zealand in the women’s weightlifting super-heavyweight category and that her inclusion does not violate the current rules on the books.

She is on track to be the first transgender athlete to ever compete in the games.

“The rules for qualification have been established by the International Weightlifting Federation before the qualifications started,” IOC boss Thomas Bach said during a new conference Reuters reported. “These rules apply, and you cannot change rules during ongoing competitions.”

Bach stressed that the rules were currently under evaluation and would be reviewed at a later date.

Transgender athletes have been officially allowed to compete in the Olympic games as women since 2015.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ioc; japan; olympics; transathlete; transgender; weightlifting
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Even the bulldyke weightlifters at my local gym are no match for this he/she
1 posted on 07/18/2021 11:55:34 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

A joke.

Don’t watch. Ignore.

There’s no Olympics.


2 posted on 07/18/2021 11:56:39 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Absurd


3 posted on 07/19/2021 12:01:03 AM PDT by Robwin ( )
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To: KingofZion

Maybe all the female weightlifters, should just up and walk out in protest, and tell the powers that be, to stick it up somewhere sideways. I wonder if that would get their attention? Those slime bags are such slime bags,they probably couldn’t even care less.


4 posted on 07/19/2021 12:09:35 AM PDT by Mark17 (Air Traffic Controller, retired. Father of US Air Force 1st Lieutenant, and trained combat pilot )
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To: KingofZion

Where’s Jeff Gillooly when you need him?


5 posted on 07/19/2021 12:27:06 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Mark17

I like that idea.


6 posted on 07/19/2021 12:27:30 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: KingofZion

We live in Clown World run by clowns.


7 posted on 07/19/2021 12:29:54 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: conservative98

LOL


8 posted on 07/19/2021 12:31:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: KingofZion

I’m old enough to remember when they tested the Soviet bloc athletes to make sure they were really women.


9 posted on 07/19/2021 12:34:56 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: ifinnegan
The women weight lifters should boycott the Olympics and hold their own event, the real event.

The Olympic's decision is patently unfair to all real women.

10 posted on 07/19/2021 1:00:05 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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To: kaehurowing

The East Germans too

Bizarro World, yes

Boycott

No fans, no viewers.


11 posted on 07/19/2021 1:05:13 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: KingofZion

Dude, hold ma beer...

This is a sick joke.


12 posted on 07/19/2021 1:10:28 AM PDT by pacificus
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To: KingofZion
If this weightlifter still has a penis, then he should compete where he belongs, with the men.

What makes him eligible to compete as a women? Because he changed his name, put his hair up in a man bun and claims he's a woman?

This will all stop someday but in the meantime, girls and women at every level of sports are getting a raw deal from the Marxist, liberal Left by allowing this.

13 posted on 07/19/2021 1:26:36 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt
This will all stop someday but in the meantime, girls and women at every level of sports are getting a raw deal from the Marxist, liberal Left by allowing this.

Don’t shed any tears for the liberal feminist women. They helped lay the PC foundation upon which this latest atrocity is built.

14 posted on 07/19/2021 1:38:28 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: KingofZion; Fred Nerks

The IOC ruled Saturday that Laurel Hubbard, 43, who is a biological man, can compete for New Zealand>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Whacko ........I am pretty close to not watching any of the Tokyo Olympics on TV, even though in Japan, one of my favorite countries.


15 posted on 07/19/2021 1:53:54 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Mark17

That would be a good start. With a man competing in womens sports, what is the worth of an Olympic medal these days? Let him win all three.


16 posted on 07/19/2021 2:01:22 AM PDT by Ikeon (Not knowing the truth doesn't make you ignorant, not wanting the truth does. )
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To: noiseman
Tell that to the girls on high school sports teams who don't have a chance to excel against some pussy dude who can't cut the mustard against the other boys.

Or to those women and kids who have to share showers and toilets with perverts.

Not everyone voted for this baloney.

17 posted on 07/19/2021 2:03:23 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: HotHunt

Jusy one question. What does not having a penis have to do with gender?. If a man cuts off his penis, he’s not a woman, he just a man without a penis.


18 posted on 07/19/2021 2:03:57 AM PDT by Ikeon (Not knowing the truth doesn't make you ignorant, not wanting the truth does. )
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To: Ikeon

I was kind of thinking the same. The azz hole could win all three.


19 posted on 07/19/2021 2:04:00 AM PDT by Mark17 (Air Traffic Controller, retired. Father of US Air Force 1st Lieutenant, and trained combat pilot )
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To: HotHunt
What makes him eligible to compete as a women? Because he changed his name, put his hair up in a man bun and claims he's a woman?

That’s probably the gist of it, right there.

20 posted on 07/19/2021 2:06:32 AM PDT by Mark17 (Air Traffic Controller, retired. Father of US Air Force 1st Lieutenant, and trained combat pilot )
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