WaTimes: A transgender weightlifter who formerly participated in the men’s division dominated an international competition in her debut on the women’s circuit.
Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand took gold in the women’s over 90kg division at the Australian International and set four national records in the process, reported the New Zealand Herald.
With combined lifts of 268 kg, the 39-year-old transgender athlete bested the nearest competitor by 19 kg. The lifts set national records in the snatch and clean jerk.
Before transitioning, Ms. Hubbard competed in weightlifting as a man.
She has since surpassed Rio de Janeiro Olympian Tracey Lambrechs as the top Kiwi weightlifter.
“Lambrechs, who won bronze at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014, admitted she was initially upset by being knocked off the top rung in the rankings by Hubbard, but she is trying to take a positive approach to her competitive future,” the Herald reported.
Why is he being allowed to compete against real women? This dude has the musculature and bone mass of a guy.
The easy solution is to do away with the men’s and women’s categories and just have “weightlifting,” where a woman would never, ever, win a trophy again–unless it was a participation trophy.
Why aren’t the lady lifters up in arms over this? This is insanity. He’s a guy. A screwed up guy on hormones, but a guy nonetheless.
Not just the clean and jerk, but the snatch as well. Bawhahahahaha…you cant make this shit up.
He only beat a woman in the combined score by 19 KG (42 lbs).
What a pussy.
Not a surprise that he won but that the women all seem to accept and encourage men to call themselves women and to compete with them!
We need a ‘ mentally ill olympics ‘
Fag
You would think the Australians would know to check down under.
How long before real biological women throw over fidelity to political correctness and transgenderism and start standing up for other real girls and women? If they don’t it will be the end of women’s sports.
@Racer X March 22, 2017 at 9:00 am
> The easy solution is to do away with the men’s and women’s categories
YOU DEPLORABLE, HATE FILLED, MISOGYNIST… WHAT? Oh… never mind.
snatch and clean jerk?
He doesn’t have snatch and still does the jerk, I don’t wanna know if it’s clean or not.
Why have men’s and women’s sports separated if this is allowed?
with gender fluidity how can you segregate sports into men’s and women’s anymore?
Thanks to New Zealand, Florida is great again.
That dude didn’t win anything.
I’d like to see it enter the Riker’s Island weight lifting competition so it can treated like the woman it wants to be
So courageous. Buckle up buckaroos.
Call me when A: Someone born a woman wins the men’s division; or B: When women everywhere have had enough of this crap.
LCD,
Some guy with a wig and fake boobs just one the Texas Gurls State wrestling championship for 156 pounders. Not a peep from any of these womens organizations.
Why exactly wasn’t he chosen to stand in front of a bull?
The only way this is going to be stopped is if the rules are changed to preclude an gender crossover from competing or every time someone like this enters a competition it’s boycotted by all the other competitors. Sooner or later someone has to stand up to the gay bullies and their progressive allies.
I’m at the point where I applaud this politically correct gender trolling. More guys need to enter women’s events and walk away the all the blue ribbons. Anything a feminist woman can do, a man on estrogen can do better.
I blame Richard Raskind (Renée Richards).
The world has been crazy since 1976.