Weightlifting: Transgender lifter Laurel Hubbard wins first international outing

[Gator Fever]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11821399

Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has dominated her first major competition, taking out the Australian International in Melbourne on a night she made history as the first transgender athlete to represent New Zealand.

Hubbard, 39, won the women's over 90kg division at the Melbourne event, setting four unofficial national records in the process. Hubbard lifted a combined total of 268kg - 19kg better than silver medallist Iuniarra Sipaia of Samoa.

Hubbard's selection was a considered a pioneering moment in sport for the LBGT community. Further ground could yet be broken, with tonight's performance in Melbourne expected to go a long way to securing Hubbard's place in the team for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games next year.

 

[URGatorBait]

Sas...there's still hope for you on the international stage

 

[t-gator]

I don't get. Why not just keep your dick if you wanna be butch?

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

Sas...there's still hope for you on the international stage

I don't work out anymore

 

[NavetG8r]

Color me surprised a man is wiping the floor with the competition when HE's competing against real women.

 

[bradgator2]

To the PF in 3, 2, .....

 

[MidwestChomp]

Good for her...er him...er wait

 

[NavetG8r]

To the PF in 3, 2, .....

I actually think this one should stay here. It's about sports. Yes it intermingles a bit into political beliefs, but it is technically about sports and how the new age of political correctness is infiltrating it's ranks to the detriment of the participants in many ways. In this case, it's the real women who are losing out to someone who shouldn't even be eligible to compete against them.

 

[gatormandan]

Good for her...er him...er wait

Them.

 

[MidwestChomp]

Them.

 

[bradgator2]

I actually think this one should stay here. It's about sports. Yes it intermingles a bit into political beliefs, but it is technically about sports and how the new age of political correctness is infiltrating it's ranks to the detriment of the participants in many ways. In this case, it's the real women who are losing out to someone who shouldn't even be eligible to compete against them.

Is wimmens weightlifting even a sport? She should get her 200 lb ugly ass back in the kitchen.

 

[ufgator812]

How brave. How courageous.

 

[NavetG8r]

How brave. How courageous.

2017 woman of the year?

 

[diehardg8r]

I guess she kept his nuts. Helps for things like wt lifting.

 

[RocketCityGator]

I actually think this one should stay here. It's about sports. Yes it intermingles a bit into political beliefs, but it is technically about sports and how the new age of political correctness is infiltrating it's ranks to the detriment of the participants in many ways. In this case, it's the real women who are losing out to someone who shouldn't even be eligible to compete against them.

This x1000

 

[maheo30]

 

[EuroGator]

I teach a couple of English classes here. I have a "David" in my class whose real name is Světlana. I call her David, but use female pronouns. It's crazy that this guy is allowed to compete against women. It's wrong.

 

[Zambo]

I In this case, it's the real women who are losing out to someone who shouldn't even be eligible to compete against them.

No, in EVERY case of political correctness run amok its the "real" people in the group that pay the price. Affirmative action, the tranny stuff, immigration, etc. Anyone with even a passing interest in cause/effect relationships can show that whatever small benefit is realized by these policies are greatly outweighed in the long run by the inevitable marginalization of the greater group. On the other hand, maybe if a few more men start identifying as women, the WNBA might actually become watchable.

 

[NavetG8r]

On the other hand, maybe if a few more men start identifying as women, the WNBA might actually become watchable.

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

It might be a man who had his external genitalia altered. It might be a man who took some hormones. But it's still a man.