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Biological Male Who Smashed Women's Weightlifting Records Will Likely Represent Them in the Olympics
The Western Journal ^ | May 9, 2021 at 8:36am | Isa Cox

Posted on 05/09/2021 10:42:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Imagine being a female weightlifter so gifted and well-trained that you managed to beat out the best of the best in your country, only to make it to the 2020 Olympics and be forced to compete against a man.

This is the harsh reality that dozens of Olympians could soon be facing if one Laurel Hubbard makes the New Zealand team, as the transgender athlete who identifies as a woman inches closer to the Tokyo games.

Hubbard, who was born as a male and has competed as one, has been determined eligible to compete at the 32nd Olympiad after testing under the maximum threshold for testosterone required by the International Olympic Committee, France 24 reported.

In 2017, Hubbard’s first outing competing as a female in international competition saw the then-39-year-old smash unofficial national records for New Zealand at the Australian International in Melbourne, according to The New Zealand Herald.

In 2018, Hubbard became the first transgender athlete at the Commonwealth Games, something which the Australian Weightlifting Federation tried to prevent, to no avail.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: australia; chat; laurelhubbard; newzealand; olympics
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1 posted on 05/09/2021 10:42:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

OOO how lovely !!!!


2 posted on 05/09/2021 10:44:03 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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These severe psychologically disturbed individuals belong in asylums along with anyone that supports them.


3 posted on 05/09/2021 10:44:35 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So many reasons to boycott the Olympics.


4 posted on 05/09/2021 10:44:37 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That guy has not ever competed against other males...


5 posted on 05/09/2021 10:44:51 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Weightlifter’s new ad will be “Harry’s gives me a close shave at sensible prices. The others are overdesigned and overpriced.”


6 posted on 05/09/2021 10:46:33 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Biological males cannot compete in biological female events in the Olympics. Period. No way around it whatsoever. Article is false on it’s basic premise.


7 posted on 05/09/2021 10:48:17 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FRAUD!!


8 posted on 05/09/2021 10:51:18 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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“These severe psychologically disturbed individuals belong in asylums along with anyone that supports them.”

Probably too late now, since it’s half of the country.


9 posted on 05/09/2021 10:51:45 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

IOC should say no. End of debate. Otherwise, it’ll be the end of women’s sports as we know it. Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner recognized that.


10 posted on 05/09/2021 10:51:45 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Isa Cox? Hmmmm


11 posted on 05/09/2021 10:52:26 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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True but think of all the problems solved if they were all institutionalized!


12 posted on 05/09/2021 10:53:36 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s unsettling how many sports governing bodies are hopelessly woke

And probably don’t even like the sport they govern

Leftists do just that


13 posted on 05/09/2021 10:54:05 AM PDT by wardaddy (Let me guess FREEPERS are now salivating over Tim Scott.....so predictable just like talk radio )
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“True but think of all the problems solved if they were all institutionalized!”

Agree...but if we keep them from voting, that would be a HUGE IMPROVEMENT.


14 posted on 05/09/2021 10:56:48 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: Tennessee Nana

“Hubbard, who was born as a male and has competed as one.”


15 posted on 05/09/2021 10:56:56 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

From the excerpt: “Hubbard, who was born as a male and has competed as one...”

Another article said that he had never competed as a male at an international level, though.


16 posted on 05/09/2021 10:58:38 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Tennessee Nana

That is common for many trannies. They were, at best, mediocre in the men’s category. So, they call themselves a girl (i.e., until snip-snip they are a guy) and go for it.
I cheer it on now. When “feminism” first came out it was about anti-discriminization, opening up job market, etc. Now, since it is in some 3rd or 4th phase it is nothing but pushing hate. Hate guys, hate white guys, suppress little boys, etc. So, let women’s sport be destroyed. Women/girls outnumber the femNazis by 100-1, but they do nothing. So, nothing will be left for them.
Want to change it, Girls? March on the schools and demand the ouster of any coach or school board member or teacher who pushes this crappola. Not shut them up, remove them. Don’t wanna do that? Then lose.


17 posted on 05/09/2021 11:00:44 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Humans with XX chromosomes will be allowed to win trophies again after they, as a block, abandon Progressive politics. And not before.


18 posted on 05/09/2021 11:04:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

iirc the soviets already did this some time back, and caught hell for it!!!

how times have changed...


19 posted on 05/09/2021 11:05:14 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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LOL! I love it! I’ll be watching for tempers flaring when the real women is humiliated by the fake witch!


20 posted on 05/09/2021 11:07:14 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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