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Lambrechs blasted allowing biological men to compete against women in sports during an interview with Television New Zealand (TVNZ) last week, according to Reuters. Lambrechs comments come as the 43-year-old Hubbard is poised to become the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics, assuming they can qualify under the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) regulations for fitness and performance.
"I'm quite disappointed, quite disappointed for the female athlete who will lose out on that spot," Lambrechs said. "We're all about equality for women in sport but right now that equality is being taken away from us."
"I've had female weightlifters come up to me and say, 'What do we do? This isn't fair, what do we do?' Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do because every time we voice it we get told to be quiet," she continued.
Hubbard competed in men's weightlifting competitions before undergoing transgender surgery in 2013. In 2015, the International Olympic Committee issued guidelines that would potentially allow male-to-female transgender athletes to compete in women's sports. A transgender's participation would be allowed as long as their testosterone measured below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least a year prior to competing.
In their first major women's weightlifting competition after transitioning, Hubbard dominated. They set four national weightlifting records for New Zealand at the 2017 Australian International & Australian Open in Melbourne. Hubbard had unseated Lambrechs as the recognized top female competitor in their weight class, forcing Lambrechs to cut weight and join a lighter class to have a shot at winning.
The inclusion of biological men in women's sports has ignited debates, legal proceedings, and action by lawmakers in the United States and elsewhere. Critics say that biological men, especially those that go through puberty, enjoy physical advantages over women that no amount of transgender surgery or hormone treatment can correct.
Supporters of transgender athletes competing based on how they identify argue that forcing transgender athletes to compete with their biological gender is transphobic.
Olivia Rondeau, a collegiate wrestler and three-time high school national champion, slammed the Biden administration last month for backing the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's and girls' sports. Rondeau said that she had personal experience wrestling boys and could attest to the physical advantages boys have naturally over girls, and how those advantages do not disappear because of transgender treatments.
"It's our right to feel safe while competing against other biological females. It's unfair for these young girls to have worked so hard to win these titles and college scholarships only to be overshadowed by biological males," Rondeau said. "Imagine if this was your young daughter in a locker room with a biological male transitioning into a female going through puberty?"
"But why does this all matter? Because this is becoming a real safety and equality issue for biologically female athletes. Even while transitioning, estrogen will not affect things like height, lung capacity, arm span, bone structure, and a myriad of other things that go into making an athlete," she said. "As a female athlete, I want to feel safe in my locker rooms and my teams. Most Americans agree at the obvious advantage that transgender athletes have over female athletes, but it is time for the silent majority to stop being so silent."
Comment: See also:
- Montana Gov. Gianforte signs bill banning transgender athletes from girls sports
- Trans weightlifter set to make history at the Olympics: Elite women athletes are right to feel cheated, insulted
- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem kills bill to ban transgender athletes from female sports
- Mississippi's ban on trans athletes competing in sports is a step in the right direction to stop kids' gender being weaponized
- Ban on transgender athletes in Utah girls' sports stalls
- 'Unequal & unsafe': Piers Morgan slams transgender athletes being allowed play women's rugby, heaping pressure on English union
Reader Comments
Henceforth known as CB positive or negative.
Simplify/streamline the process.
Then people could claim whatever genders they like but it'd prevent this from happening ....
Started by reading literature written by women in 1800s, by candlelight. After getting over just HOW MUCH BETTER EDUCATED and erudite these authors were, in contrast to contemporary populations, I was fascinated to learn the following:
in the late 1800s/early 1900s (if memory serves) on both sides of Atlantic, women wanted the right to vote, but were "convinced" by african american men that they would have a better chance if they combined forces, since both were excluded from voting. Ultimately, this led to males of color being allowed to vote, and another 50 years or so before women "earned that right" ... because the entire generation of former MALE (xy) slaves failed to support said women, once they earned what they sought.
So it has been, and continues to be .... women get "right" to academic xx sports, only to be supplanted (within a generation or less) by a loud minority which de facto eliminates ALL xx sports.
Note: I rather detest the mirage of "voting" (a farce), and feel similarly re competitive sports (basically about being "better" than someone else, versus testing yourself to do better for the sake of personal improvement/growth), but regardless, the pattern is SO obvious. Matriarchy, and all XX females (and by extension, mother earth) are UNDER ATTACK. Just look at which population appears to have been more targeted by "jabs" (hint: disproportionate # of reported "severe adverse reactions" in XX, e.g. disruption of moon cycle and loss of pregnancies etc.).
While NOT a feminist by ANY definition of this Marxist term, I love being a woman and can recognize that our ability to procreate, at the core, is something patriarchy fears and thus attempts to suppress by means of societal "norms."
Instead of 2 Category's, you have 4
Biological Woman
Biological Men
Trans Woman
Trans Men
There done.
No more complaining
The World has bigger Problems to solve
There are practically NO female to male trannies trying to compete in male sports while almost all the cases involve M to F trannies unfairly competing against real women. (This, too, is nothing new. None of the articles deal with how this was an issue back in the 70s? with Renee Richards in Tennis.
As we know, this is all part of making illogic sound common and supposedly 'logical.' Part of a mega divide and conquer push towards a NWO.
RC
No transgender M to F may compete in any competition unless they have had their, uh, 'package' removed completely for at least one year before competing. No bullshit 'hormone therapy'. Screw that. You want to compete against the girls, well, then you gotta really COMMIT, really make the BIG SACRIFICE. I mean, if it's that important to them, and they really ARE transgenders, it should be no problem, right?
Yeah. Do that and watch these trans M-F competitors suddenly disappear into the cold night of harsh reality.......
More absurd theatre to divide and distract.
Personally, I'm not a follower of any sports, but I recognise that its a great "leveller". Its not about your Colour, your religion, your sexuality or your values as a person, its simply about how fast you can run, how much you can lift ect, ect. For this reason alone it unites people all over the world.
People claiming to fight for transgender rights are I'm sure working towards a noble and just cause, but to say that an "XY" doesnt have an advantage over an XX is just wrong. They will surely end up doing more harm than good by trying to fight this battle.