Trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard set
to make history at Tokyo Olympics
Guardian [U.K.],
by
Sean Ingle
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
5/6/2021 9:15:18 AM
History and controversy is expected to be made at the Tokyo Olympics this summer after the transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was effectively guaranteed a place in the women’s super heavyweight category. While the 43-year-old has not yet been named in the New Zealand team, an International Weightlifting Federation insider confirmed to the Guardian that she would automatically qualify because of amended rules approved by the International Olympic Committee.(Snip) However, a number of scientific papers have recently shown people who have undergone male puberty retain significant advantages in power and strength even after taking medication to suppress their testosterone levels. Hubbard lived as a male
Reply 1 - Posted by:
msts 5/6/2021 9:19:50 AM (No. 776889)
Historic? First man to win medal in a female event?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
moebellini3 5/6/2021 9:27:26 AM (No. 776899)
Welcome to the island of Dr. Moreau where what you are is not who you will be. Where the freaks of nature are created and rebranded. We are living in a sick freakin world. Get it yet..
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Paintman 5/6/2021 9:31:46 AM (No. 776904)
Historic ? I distinctly remember an East German women's swim team that suspiciously had Adam's apples, big muscles, and a 5 o'clock shadow.
As an aside, a lot of these Sports can be played on the club level and I wish they would make up their own rules and offer a legitimate alternative to the woke Olympics.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
planetgeo 5/6/2021 9:46:59 AM (No. 776921)
The world really has gone insane.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/6/2021 9:49:22 AM (No. 776923)
The Women need to stand as ONE...and BOYCOTT this Farce!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rama41 5/6/2021 10:03:21 AM (No. 776945)
Some of us are old enough to remember Tamara and Irina Press. https://www.infobloom.com/who-are-tamara-and-irina-press.htm
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/6/2021 10:16:23 AM (No. 776963)
These people are deluded. You are BORN male OR female. The Chromosomes don't lie and no amount of "social-engineering" can change it.
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Laurel Hubbard is the perfect example of why there should be one class of athletic competition, open to all. (S)He epitomizes EQUALITY and any howling about unfair advantage only serves to underscore how inferior female athletes generally are to their male counterparts. They do not jump higher, run faster and are not stronger. For years WOMEN particularly have championed the LGBT-whatever athlete. Okay, now they face the situation they largely created, and they come up short.
Open competition - let's make the Olympics (which has no effective gender rules anymore) and athletics into the same "game" as a job search, special forces and first responder qualifications and all the rest. Back to merit. That means being the winner jumps higher, runs faster and is stronger than the competition. EQUALITY!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 5/6/2021 10:37:01 AM (No. 776993)
Give me one good reason why ALL gender specific sports separations (basketball, football, golf, volleyball, etc.,) should not be immediately removed.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/6/2021 10:44:06 AM (No. 777000)
Thus, the silver medal is now the new gold medal.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
less is more 5/6/2021 10:44:07 AM (No. 777001)
Liberals ruin every single thing that they touch.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hershey 5/6/2021 11:01:13 AM (No. 777021)
I'm sure the original Olympians are spinning in their graves...the Olympics are becoming ludicrous...I don't usually do wikipedia but a duckduckgo search had them first for the included sports...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2021 11:17:56 AM (No. 777041)
A man will set "women's records".....no, just a cheater, like the East German "women" back in the 60s and 70s.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 5/6/2021 11:35:23 AM (No. 777066)
What if someone hosted an Olympics and nobody showed up to watch?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 5/6/2021 11:46:31 AM (No. 777077)
Trans doesn't count, period.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/6/2021 11:52:27 AM (No. 777088)
Historic, my eye… The only historic thing s the IOC’s giiving in to this minority.
fta:
Under IOC guidelines, issued in November 2015, athletes who transition from male to female can compete in the women’s category without requiring surgery to remove their testes provided their total testosterone level in serum is kept below 10 nanomoles per litre for at least 12 months – a rule followed by the IWF.
However, a number of scientific papers have recently shown people who have undergone male puberty retain significant advantages in power and strength even after taking medication to suppress their testosterone levels. Hubbard lived as a male for 35 years, and did not compete in international weightlifting. But since transitioning in 2012 she has won several elite titles.
This older guy didn’t compete until the rules changed and he could compete as a pretend female. That is pathetic.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/6/2021 12:34:43 PM (No. 777140)
Ken Matthews played an excellent clip from Rush regarding this topic. yesterday 5/5/21. as usual Rush smashed it and brought only the truth to the dialogue. certainly do miss Rush.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/6/2021 12:50:47 PM (No. 777154)
Cheater
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 5/6/2021 12:52:59 PM (No. 777155)
The sooner men pretended to be women destroy women's sport, the better. Once people begin to wake up and realize that transgender isn't 'justice' for real females, the sooner sanity will return to the world.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
fourpmfox 5/6/2021 12:58:29 PM (No. 777158)
For most of my youth I competed with men in my two passions horses and sailboats. When competing on my open jumper, he had to wear a weight pad to bring me up even with the men.
Why not configure a system like that to even them up with the women??? The weight to be lifted could be configured to relate to the weight of the lifter. The same thing could work with timed events, etc. !!!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 5/6/2021 1:13:59 PM (No. 777171)
An Olympic gold medal will soon have as much credibility as a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NYbob 5/6/2021 1:23:20 PM (No. 777181)
I thought the original Olympics were played in the nude. At least for this event that idea would challenge Hubbard to reveal what we all know, he is a cheater pretending to be a woman to ' win ' a medal. Do it nude and show the world you are a phony fake. Of course the media helps the cheat by using words like ' she ' when talking about a man.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/6/2021 1:30:14 PM (No. 777188)
I avoid absurdities.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
sciteach 5/6/2021 6:28:14 PM (No. 777403)
Of course he will make history. For the first time we will have a man in the Olympics smashing the women's record in weight-lifting. What is so "historic" in that travesty?
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#16 - The article is wrong. The Court of Arbitration for Sport has found that the testosterone levels were invalid after a well-known sprinter, a natural woman, appealed her disqualification on that basis claiming the standard shouldn't apply to her as her natural levels exceeded the standard. The IOC is subject to this ruling. While the rule may be on the books, in effect, there are no gender rules anymore. One can be a complete man and compete as a woman...them's the rules.
Enjoy that All-American Coke you're drinking while you watch.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 5/7/2021 10:25:41 AM (No. 777999)
He is not a woman.
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The left says gender is merely a social construct, that science is real, and that women are oppressed by the patriarchy. Here the science says "transgender women" have advantages over real women, but the left demands that real women compete against mild men who will probably beat them in competition.