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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A dozen or so of the female weightlifters should ambush him and put him out of the competition.
Interestingly, Semenya is out of these Olympics due to IAAF telling her to take her hormones if she want to compete from 400m up to a mile. She refused, and had to take a job as a forward on a soccer team in South Blackfrica.
My apology.
Supposedly the average age for Olympic weightlifters is 25-26. He is competing as a woman at age 43. So eventually if they get a strong enough guy who believes they are female who starts young enough, they could dominate the women’s sport for decades I guess.
It will only stop when a majority of women athletes want it to stop.
Freegards
Waiting for a ‘woman’ to be able to dunk the basketball. A first.
Women don't want to make that decision. They want a man to make that decision so they can bitch publically and agree with it privately. The IAAF's Sebastian Coe coming down hard on Semenyaya is a perfect example of that.
The single solitary female brave enough to punch down on Laurel Hardly is Tracey Lambrechs, who was immediately accused by other woymnsz of sour grapes because Lurid Manchin displaced Lambrechs on the women's NZ weight-lifting team.
I’ve got to look up this Caster Semen-ya?!
Oy vey!
Transgendwrs are starting to complain that they’re not simply identified as women.
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