{"id":569745,"date":"2021-06-21T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569745"},"modified":"2021-06-21T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:37:42","slug":"opinion-in-the-battle-for-strength-it-helps-to-be-a-man-in-a-womans-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-in-the-battle-for-strength-it-helps-to-be-a-man-in-a-womans-world\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: In The Battle For Strength, It Helps To Be A Man In A Woman\u2019s World"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fopinion-in-the-battle-for-strength-it-helps-to-be-a-man-in-a-womans-world%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=569745&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\/06\/GettyImages-943598930-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>After being selected as part of New Zealand\u2019s Olympic weightlifting team for this summer\u2019s Tokyo games, Laurel Hubbard became the \u201cfirst openly transgender person to participate in the Olympics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/first-openly-transgender-athlete-will-compete-in-olympics-after-dominating-female-weightlifting-competitions\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span>\u2019s Tim Pearce noted, the male-to-female transgender weightlifter is the oldest weightlifter to be competing in the games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hubbard transitioned in 2013, and became eligible to compete in the Olympics after the International Olympic Committee changed its rules in 2015, allowing transgender athletes to compete with athletes of the gender of which they identify \u201cas long as the athlete\u2019s testosterone measured below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least a year prior to competing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Of course, it doesn\u2019t take a scientific genius to understand that there is a competitive advantage provided to those who develop as a man, and then transition later. If such chronology didn\u2019t matter, then presumably there would be no physical difference between those who received various hormone therapies before or after going through hormone therapy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/dec\/07\/study-suggests-ioc-adjustment-period-for-trans-women-may-be-too-short\"><span>The Guardian<\/span><\/a><span> reported in December 2020 that \u201c<\/span><span>A groundbreaking new study on transgender athletes\u201d indicated that \u201ctrans women retain a 12% advantage in running tests even after taking hormones for two years to suppress their testosterone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe results, researchers suggest, indicate the current International Olympic Committee guidelines may give trans women an \u2018unfair competitive advantage\u2019 over biological women,\u201d The Guardian added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hubbard, who was born in 1978, is 43-years-old, meaning that the transgender athlete was in their mid-thirties when they transitioned. In other words, Hubbard experienced decades of developmental growth as a male before recently ensuring that their testosterone measured below some given limit. If we assume that this wouldn\u2019t drastically \u201cundo\u201d any biological benefits when compared to biological women \u2014 such as muscle growth \u2014 we could well explain Hubbard\u2019s meteoric rise in the women\u2019s sport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While the notion of gender \u201caffirmation\u201d treatment for consenting adults whose transition doesn\u2019t threaten the livelihoods of others is subject to objective medical and moral debate, the embrace of an additional competitive layer simply cannot be accepted by a society which claims to protect women, particularly when such competition provides biological men with an inescapable advantage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a middle-aged man, Hubbard was an unknown entity in the world of international sports, whose greatest \u2014 admittedly impressive \u2014 achievement in the field of weightlifting was a junior national record in 1998 while competing as a male.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a middle-aged biological man celebrated by certain elements of society as a woman, Hubbard appears to be a likely Olympian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For Hubbard to emerge victorious this summer, all it will cost is the right of women to compete on a level playing field with other women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>@ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being selected as part of New Zealand\u2019s Olympic weightlifting team for this summer\u2019s Tokyo games, Laurel Hubbard became the \u201cfirst openly transgender person to participate in the Olympics.\u201dAs The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280896,"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\/06\/GettyImages-943598930-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"OPINION: In The Battle For Strength, It Helps To Be A Man In A Woman\u2019s World","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-943598930-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"OPINION: In The Battle For Strength, It Helps To Be A Man In A Woman\u2019s World","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569745","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=569745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}