{"id":569117,"date":"2021-06-21T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569117"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:07:34","slug":"first-openly-transgender-athlete-will-compete-in-olympics-after-dominating-female-weightlifting-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-openly-transgender-athlete-will-compete-in-olympics-after-dominating-female-weightlifting-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"First Openly Transgender Athlete Will Compete In Olympics After Dominating Female Weightlifting Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-openly-transgender-athlete-will-compete-in-olympics-after-dominating-female-weightlifting-competitions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569117&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Laurel-Hubbard.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Laurel Hubbard, a male-to-female transgender weightlifter, is set to make history as the first openly transgender person to participate in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard, 43, was selected to join New Zealand\u2019s weightlifting team at the Olympics in Tokyo this summer. Hubbard is the oldest weightlifter to be competing in the games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am grateful and humbled by the kindness and support that has been given to me by so many New Zealanders,\u201d Hubbard said in a statement, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/06\/21\/laurel-hubbard-transgender-tokyo-olympics\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard\u2019s selection comes after much dispute and criticism over allowing biologically male athletes to compete in women\u2019s sports. Hubbard transitioned in 2013, and became eligible to compete in the Olympics in 2015 after the International Olympic Committee changed its rules to allow for transgender people to compete against other athletes of the gender of which they identify.<\/p>\n<p>Female athletes and others have sounded the alarm over allowing biologically male athletes into female competitions, asserting that biological males have significant advantages over female athletes that do not go away with transgender surgery and chemical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Complaints against Hubbard have reportedly become somewhat of a taboo subject. Former Olympic weightlifter Tracey Lambrechs said that athletes who complained about having to compete against Hubbard were being told to keep silent. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-olympian-female-weightlifters-told-to-be-quiet-about-transgender-people-competing-for-olympics\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported in May:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23.806228373702\">\n<p><em>Lambrechs blasted allowing biological men to compete against women in sports during an interview with Television New Zealand (TVNZ) last week, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/females-told-be-quiet-transgender-issue-ex-weightlifter-2021-05-07\/\">Reuters<\/a>. 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m quite disappointed, quite disappointed for the female athlete who will lose out on that spot,\u201d Lambrechs said. \u201cWe\u2019re all about equality for women in sport but right now that equality is being taken away from us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve had female weightlifters come up to me and say, \u2018What do we do? This isn\u2019t fair, what do we do?\u2019 Unfortunately, there\u2019s nothing we can do because every time we voice it we get told to be quiet,\u201d she continued.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hubbard has claimed that despite being born a male, Hubbard has no advantages over female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, I\u2019ve heard that and I think it\u2019s incredibly disrespectful to the other competitors,\u201d Hubbard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-transgender-weightlifter-i-have-no-advantage-amanda-prestigiacomo\">said<\/a> in 2017. \u201cI don\u2019t believe there is any fundamental difference between me and the other athletes, and to suggest there is is slightly demeaning to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard competed in men\u2019s weightlifting competitions before undergoing transgender surgery in 2013. In 2015, the International Olympic Committee announced it would allow a transgender female to participate in women\u2019s competitions as long as the athlete\u2019s testosterone measured below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least a year prior to competing.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-zealand-where-men-are-men-and-so-are-women-joseph-curl\">dominated<\/a> female weightlifting after transitioning. Hubbard set four national weightlifting records for New Zealand at the 2017 Australian International &#038; Australian Open in Melbourne. Hubbard also unseated Lambrechs as the top female competitor in their weight class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-times-transgender-athletes-dominated-womens-sports\">5 Times Transgender Athletes Dominated Women\u2019s Sports<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurel Hubbard, a male-to-female transgender weightlifter, is set to make history as the first openly transgender person to participate in the Olympics.Hubbard, 43, was selected to join New Zealand\u2019s weightlifting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280827,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Laurel-Hubbard.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"First Openly Transgender Athlete Will Compete In Olympics After Dominating Female Weightlifting Competitions","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Laurel-Hubbard.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"First Openly Transgender Athlete Will Compete In Olympics After Dominating Female Weightlifting Competitions","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}