{"id":572139,"date":"2021-06-23T17:21:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572139"},"modified":"2021-06-23T17:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T21:21:48","slug":"former-olympian-who-lost-records-to-laurel-hubbard-says-trans-athletes-will-knock-women-out-of-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-olympian-who-lost-records-to-laurel-hubbard-says-trans-athletes-will-knock-women-out-of-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Olympian Who Lost Records To Laurel Hubbard Says Trans Athletes Will \u2018Knock Women Out Of Sport\u2019"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fformer-olympian-who-lost-records-to-laurel-hubbard-says-trans-athletes-will-knock-women-out-of-sport%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=572139&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\/Tracey-Lambrechs.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Retired New Zealand weightlifter and former Olympian Tracey Lambrechs warned Thursday that transgender athletes will eventually \u201cknock women out of sport\u201d unless action is taken.<\/p>\n<p>Lambrechs competed in the same weight class as transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard after Hubbard, born biologically male, transitioned in 2013 and began competing in women\u2019s weightlifting competitions. Lambrechs said she lost all of her weightlifting records soon after Hubbard began competing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like \u2018What do you mean? There\u2019s no one that\u2019s close to me,\u2019\u201d Lambrechs said during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/olympic-weightlifter-lambrechs-women-new-zealand-laurel-hubbard\">Fox News<\/a>, recalling a phone call she received from her coach letting her know that Hubbard had eclipsed her lifting records and beat her out of the number one spot for their weight class. \u201cLaurel started weightlifting, and she competed on the weekend. So as of now, you\u2019re number two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/first-openly-transgender-athlete-will-compete-in-olympics-after-dominating-female-weightlifting-competitions\">become<\/a> the first openly transgender person to compete in the Olympics after winning a spot on the New Zealand national team. At 43 years old, Hubbard is currently the oldest weightlifter competing.<\/p>\n<p>Lambrechs said that trans athletes could eventually destroy women\u2019s sports by forcing out all biologically female competitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s honestly going to knock women out of sport. Women are not going to want to participate in something where there isn\u2019t opportunity for them to win medals or go to international competition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After Hubbard beat Lambrechs out of her records, Lambrechs was given little recourse if she wanted to continue competing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told by the national weightlifting body that I either needed to drop a weight category or look at retiring,\u201d Lambrechs said. Lambrechs ultimately decided to drop a weight class so that she could continue competing.<\/p>\n<p>Each nation is capped at sending just one athlete per weight class for major weightlifting competitions. Lambrechs lost nearly 40 pounds in three months to drop weight classes and continue competing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just did what I had to do to accomplish my goal of competing at my third Commonwealth Games. It meant a lot to me to show the Commonwealth that I wasn\u2019t knocked out that easily,\u201d Lambrechs said.<\/p>\n<p>Lambrechs has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-olympian-female-weightlifters-told-to-be-quiet-about-transgender-people-competing-for-olympics\">claimed<\/a> that athletes have been warned to be silent about transgender competitors in women\u2019s sports. In May, she said that sport was being taken away from women because of committees allowing biological men to compete against them.<\/p>\n<p>\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<\/p>\n<p>\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 added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/like-a-bad-joke-female-competitor-reacts-to-trans-weightlifter-competing-in-olympic-games\">\u2018Like A Bad Joke\u2019: Female Competitor Reacts To Trans Weightlifter Competing In Olympic Games<\/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. 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