{"id":570913,"date":"2021-06-22T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570913"},"modified":"2021-06-22T17:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:21:47","slug":"feminist-new-zealand-pm-backs-biologically-male-trans-athlete-competing-in-womens-olympic-weightlifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feminist-new-zealand-pm-backs-biologically-male-trans-athlete-competing-in-womens-olympic-weightlifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist New Zealand PM Backs Biologically Male Trans Athlete Competing In Women\u2019s Olympic Weightlifting"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ffeminist-new-zealand-pm-backs-biologically-male-trans-athlete-competing-in-womens-olympic-weightlifting%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=570913&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-1232395890.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, an outspoken feminist, threw her support behind\u00a0a former men\u2019s weightlifting competitor who now identities as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire reported,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/first-openly-transgender-athlete-will-compete-in-olympics-after-dominating-female-weightlifting-competitions\">Laurel Hubbard<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0representing New Zealand in the\u00a0women\u2019s weightlifting category at the upcoming Olympics. Hubbard will be the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll parties here have simply followed the rules,\u201d Ardern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2021\/jun\/22\/trans-weightlifter-laurel-hubbard-backed-by-australian-rival-and-new-zealand-pm\">said<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s the case for Laurel but also the team in New Zealand, they have followed the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ardern notably styles herself an ardent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-newzealand-abortion\/new-zealand-passes-historic-law-to-decriminalize-abortion-idUSKBN2153YN\">pro-abortion feminist<\/a>, which seems to run in contrast with her support for a biologically male athlete competing against biological women.<\/p>\n<p>Many female athletes and feminists have spoken out against separating sports based on gender identity instead of biological sex, highlighting that females have lost out on opportunities because of the biological advantages males have over females, even post-trans hormone therapy, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2020\/11\/06\/bjsports-2020-102329.full?ijkey=yjlCzZVZFRDZzHz&#038;keytype=ref\">British Journal of Sports Medicine<\/a>\u00a0study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/study-trans-women-still-have-athletic-advantage-over-women-after-year-of-hormone-therapy\">suggests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/like-a-bad-joke-female-competitor-reacts-to-trans-weightlifter-competing-in-olympic-games\">The Daily Wire<\/a>\u00a0highlighted this week,\u00a0female weightlifter Anna Vanbellinghen, who is likely going to compete in the upcoming Olympic Games against Hubbard,\u00a0has spoken out about the issue, likening the situation to \u201ca bad joke\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"38.889752650177\">\n<p><em>\u201cFirst off, I would like to stress that I fully support the transgender community, and that what I\u2019m about to say doesn\u2019t come from a place of rejection of this athlete\u2019s identity,\u201d Vanbellinghen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/more-sports\/rival-on-transgender-weightlifter-laurel-hubbard-competing-in-tokyo-olympics-like-a-bad-joke\/ar-AAKzEyV?li=BBnbfcL\">said<\/a> earlier this month. \u201cI am aware that defining a legal frame for transgender participation in sports is very difficult since there is an infinite variety of situations, and that reaching an entirely satisfactory solution, from either side of the debate, is probably impossible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHowever, anyone that has trained weightlifting at a high level knows this to be true in their bones: this particular situation is unfair to the sport and to the athletes,\u201d the athlete emphasized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since Hubbard physically developed as a man before transitioning, the trans weightlifter is at an inherent unfair advantage over biologically female competitors, said Vanbellinghen.\u00a0\u201cSo why is it still a question whether two decades, from puberty to the age of 35, with the hormonal system of a man also would give an advantage?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI understand that for sports authorities nothing is as simple as following your common sense, and that there are a lot of impracticalities when studying such a rare phenomenon, but for athletes the whole thing feels like a bad joke,\u201d Vanbellinghen continued.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLife-changing opportunities are missed for some athletes \u2014 medals and Olympic qualifications \u2014 and we are powerless.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Olympic medalist Sharron Davies on Monday similarly criticized the news.\u00a0\u201cWe have men &#038; women\u2019s separate competition [for] a BIG reason, biology in sport matters,\u201d Davies said via Twitter. \u201cSeparate categories give females equal opportunities of sporting success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The swimmer added that \u201cthe average age of a female Olympic weightlifter is 23,\u201d while \u201cLaurel Hubbard is 43.\u00a030% unfair advantage! Sex not gender [for] sport.\u201d<\/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\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1624481223773000&#038;usg=AFQjCNG2-bNyi8F6KBvTxpOWU-uUuuJLgQ\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, an outspoken feminist, threw her support behind\u00a0a former men\u2019s weightlifting competitor who now identities as a woman.As The Daily Wire reported,\u00a0Laurel Hubbard\u00a0is\u00a0representing New Zealand &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281024,"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-1232395890.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Feminist New Zealand PM Backs Biologically Male Trans Athlete Competing In Women\u2019s Olympic Weightlifting","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570913","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-1232395890.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Feminist New Zealand PM Backs Biologically Male Trans Athlete Competing In Women\u2019s Olympic Weightlifting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570913","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=570913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}