New Zealand will be the first nation to send a man to compete as a woman in the Olympics, the country’s team has announced in an undated release.
The lucky fella is a weightlifter who goes by the name Laurel Hubbard since “transitioning,” and never qualified for the quadrennial games before he began identifying and competing as a woman.
Apparently, Tokyo-bound Hubbard competes well against women, which would make sense because he’s a man.
As CBS News observed, the latest milestone for “transgenders” — the mentally disordered who believe they are members of the opposite sex — comes as several U.S. states demonstrate that some semblance of sanity still prevails. They are banning boys from pretending to be girls so they can compete against weaker athletes and dominate the sports in which they unfairly compete.
A First
Of course, the “transgenders” and their backers don’t want anyone to think that a man who unfairly competes as a woman is anything more than a woman. So to accommodate the 43-year-old Hubbard and his ilk, the International Weightlifting Federation and International Olympic Committee created testosterone “guidelines.”
“The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) adheres to IOC transgender guidelines introduced in 2015,” NBC reported:
Athletes who transition from male to female are eligible for the Olympics if their total testosterone level in serum has been below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 months. The athlete’s declaration that her gender identity is female also cannot be changed for at least four years.
“We acknowledge that gender identity in sport is a highly sensitive and complex issue requiring a balance between human rights and fairness on the field of play,” New Zealand’s Olympic Committee CEO Kereyn Smith said.
The important thing, though, is “inclusion” and something called “manaaki,” Smith said:
We have a strong culture of manaaki and inclusion and respect for all. We are committed to supporting all eligible New Zealand athletes and ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing,
Manaaki is the Maori word for community support and respect for others.
For his part, Hubbard is gratified to return from a near-career ending broken arm. “The last eighteen months has shown us all that there is strength in kinship, in community, and in working together towards a common purpose,” he said. “The mana of the silver fern comes from all of you and I will wear it with pride.”
The silver fern is New Zealand’s national symbol.
“I just want to be me and just do what I do,” Hubbard said in 2017. That would be believable if he would stop pretending to be a woman and seek psychiatric treatment.
Oppose the Insanity, Face the Mob
As The New American reported in 2019, opposing “transgender ideology” is fraught with peril.
Nine-time Wimbledon champ Martina Navratilova was a member in good-standing of the alphabet community until she complained about the transgender madness.
“You can’t just proclaim yourself a female and be able to compete against women,” she tweeted in December. “There must be some standards, and having a penis and competing as a woman would not fit that standard.”
Navratilova deleted the tweet. But in London’s Times the tennis legend argued that so-called transgender women should be permitted to compete against real women:
To put the argument at its most basic: a man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organization is concerned, win everything in sight and perhaps earn a small fortune, and then reverse his decision and go back to making babies if he so desires. … It’s insane and it’s cheating. I am happy to address a transgender woman in whatever form she prefers, but I would not be happy to compete against her. It would not be fair.
A “LGBTQ” sports group kicked Navratilova off its board.
DOJ On Board
Last week, the Department of Justice joined leftist lawsuits that would block states from stopping the “transgender” madness.
West Virginia has banned “transgender” high schools students from competing in the wrong sports, and Arkansas has banned life-altering surgeries for “transgender” kids.
Unsurprisingly, the American Civil Liberties Union is behind the lawfare. One of its lawsuits seeks to force West Virginia to permit an 11-year-old boy — who identifies as a “transgender” girl — to play girls’ sports.
