{"id":586053,"date":"2021-07-08T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586053"},"modified":"2021-07-08T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:06:24","slug":"former-olympian-slams-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports-its-very-upsetting-and-stressful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-olympian-slams-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports-its-very-upsetting-and-stressful\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Olympian Slams Transgender Athletes In Women\u2019s Sports: \u2018It\u2019s Very Upsetting And Stressful\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\">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%2Fformer-olympian-slams-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports-its-very-upsetting-and-stressful%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=586053&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\/07\/Tracey-Lambrechs.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Tracey Lambrechs, a former pro weightlifter and Olympic competitor, is warning that the inclusion of transgender athletes in women\u2019s sports could be disastrous for female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Lambrechs, from New Zealand, ramped up her advocacy for keeping women\u2019s sports for biological women after male-to-female transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand qualified to participate in the upcoming Olympic games in Tokyo. Lambrechs competed against Hubbard and lost several weightlifting records to Hubbard. Hubbard had competed in men\u2019s weightlifting competitions before transitioning.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Lambrechs was forced to drop almost 40 pounds in three months to qualify for a lower weight class so she could continue competing after Hubbard knocked her out of the top spot. Lambrechs\u2019 coach was told she would have to drop a weight class if she wanted a chance at competing or she needed to retire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing that much weight quickly was not ideal for my health and I suffered some severe migraines and started passing out a lot,\u201d Lambrechs told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/an-olympic-athlete-speaks-out-on-the-participation-of-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports\/\">National Review<\/a>. She added that being beaten out of competition by biological males, \u201cpsychologically speaking it\u2019s very upsetting and stressful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lambrechs said that as a member of the New Zealand national team, she was told to stay quiet and refrain from criticizing trans athletes\u2019 inclusion in women\u2019s sports or risk getting booted from the national team herself for embarrassing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told not to talk to the media and were warned that if we did we could bring the sport into disrepute and then could miss out on being selected or could be dropped from national teams,\u201d Lambrechs said. \u201cThe sports national body did not know how to handle the situation, so they had a knee-jerk reaction and thought silence would be best for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Hubbard, 43, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/first-openly-transgender-athlete-will-compete-in-olympics-after-dominating-female-weightlifting-competitions\">qualified<\/a> for the Olympics as the oldest female weightlifter currently expected to compete.<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard\u2019s qualification sparked controversy over the future of women\u2019s sports if biological males are allowed to compete. Athletes and others critical of transgender athletes\u2019 inclusion say that biological males, even if they meet the testosterone requirements through surgery to compete, still have significant advantages over their female competitors, such as bone mass and skeletal structure.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the International Olympic Committee announced it would allow biological males 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. One of the consequences of that rule has been to block female competitors with naturally high testosterone levels from competing.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia\u2019s Olympic Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-57748135\">pulled<\/a> two of its track athletes, Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, from competing in the Olympics because their testosterone levels measured above the allowed amount. The athletes are attempting to get that ruling overturned, arguing that their naturally high testosterone levels should not bar them from competition.<\/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>Tracey Lambrechs, a former pro weightlifter and Olympic competitor, is warning that the inclusion of transgender athletes in women\u2019s sports could be disastrous for female athletes.Lambrechs, from New Zealand, ramped &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314252,"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\/07\/Tracey-Lambrechs.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Former Olympian Slams Transgender Athletes In Women\u2019s Sports: \u2018It\u2019s Very Upsetting And Stressful\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Tracey-Lambrechs.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Former Olympian Slams Transgender Athletes In Women\u2019s Sports: \u2018It\u2019s Very Upsetting And Stressful\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586053","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=586053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}