Proof The World Has Gone Completely Batsh*t: A Man Now Identifying As A Woman Will Compete On A Women’s Weightlifting Team.

According to this, 39 year old Laurel Hubbard has officially been named as a member of the New Zealand women’s weightlifting team for the Commonwealth Games.

She used to be a dude.  And in fact, she used to be a competitive WEIGHTLIFTING DUDE.  A good one, even.  A title holding one.  This is Laurel.

Her transition to become a woman didn’t take place until her mid-30s, and earlier this year she became the first trans athlete to win an international weightlifting title for New Zealand and Australia in the Australia Open.

Hubbard is currently refusing media interviews, but has apparently met the requirements of the International Olympic Committee with respect to “acceptable testosterone levels.”

This is where we are.  We’ve now reached a point of politically correct hysteria that we’re denying basic biological truth.  If we say the obvious, which is that Hubbard has a clear and distinct advantage over her teammates and competitors, what with her actually BEING A DUDE AND WHATNOT, then we’re bigoted jerks who refuse to be “woke” about LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP issues.  It doesn’t matter that every single person with firing synapses knows, deep down, that OF COURSE Hubbard has a clear and distinct advantage. It’s just that if you say that out loud, you’re branded a bigot.

Which is why this is happening:

A spokesperson for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation said organisers planned to make the event “the most accessible and inclusive Games in history”.

Awesome.  Because who cares about fair competition?  INCLUSIVITY, people.  Priorities.

This part of the article cracked me up:

Concerns over both Hubbard and Mouncey are on the grounds of conceived advantages their physical strength and stamina would provide them over opponents.

(Mouncey is a transwoman who wanted to compete on a women’s football league.  She looks like this:

Yeah.  No unfair advantage there whatsoever, amirite?)

According to the original sourcelink, the International Olympic Committee “relaxed” their regulations on trans people last year, and they can now take part in competitions without having to go through pesky reassignment surgery.  After all, as we’ve been told by social justice warriors, some women have penises.  Duh.

Now, the regulations are such that if you’re a trans dude looking to participate in dude sports, you’re basically in if you just SAY you wanna be in, because as everyone knows, men are, by and large, stronger and faster BIOLOGICALLY, so there’s no issue with a woman wanting to join a man’s sport, because she won’t bring biological advantages.

But if you’re a transwoman wanting to participate in women’s sports,  you have to make sure your testosterone levels are “below 10nmol/L,” whatever that means.  If you want to keep your danglies, that’s fine, just get your testosterone in check.  They’ll just ignore that whole, record-holding-weightlifting-as-a-dude-background that you have.  No biggie. I mean, that’s TOTES not an advantage.

Why isn’t surgery required any longer?  INCLUSIVENESS, y’all:

The guidelines explain: “It is necessary to ensure insofar as possible that trans athletes are not excluded from the opportunity to participate in sporting competition.
“To require surgical anatomical changes as a pre-condition to participation is not necessary to preserve fair competition and may be inconsistent with developing legislation and notions of human rights.”

So here we are.

Congrats, female weightlifters!  You’ve just allowed yourselves to become unwitting participants of the eeeevil patriarchy.  Dudes are going to beat you at women’s weightlifting now.

Looking forward to feminist outrage about that.  The same outrage they had over a dude getting Glamour’s Woman Of The Year Award.

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