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-Great Cultural Revolution
The Olympics' first transgender athlete: Team New Zealand sparks outrage after picking a transgender woman weightlifter who competed as a man until 2013 as rivals call it 'a bad joke'
2021-06-21
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to compete for New Zealand at the Tokyo Olympics

  • She will be the first transgender athlete to compete at the prestigious games

  • Hubbard will be competing in the women's super heavyweight category in July

  • Born Gavin Hubbard, he set national records in junior competition and at 20-years-old had a best, combined snatch and clean and jerk total of 300kg
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Posted by:Skidmark

#13   Ha! [for #4, definitely SOTD]

Posted by: Dron66046   2021-06-21 21:41  

#12  #4 is a winner. Well played, sir!

Also:
Female Weightlifter Suffers Tragic Testicle Injury

Posted by: SteveS   2021-06-21 20:24  

#11  This mental illness isn't limited to NZ. U.S. Trans Athlete: ‘My Goal Is to Win the Olympics So I Can Burn a U.S. Flag on the Podium’
A transgender BMX freestyle rider and U.S. Olympic team alternate once said that his (correct pronoun) goal was to win the Olympics so he (correct again) could burn the American flag on the podium.
Posted by: Glereger Bumble2153   2021-06-21 19:13  

#10  I'm so old I remember when snatch was a verb..
Posted by: Warthog   2021-06-21 15:50  

#9  #4 - Snark O' The Day candidate
Posted by: Frank G   2021-06-21 15:26  

#8  ^Then you'll see the wrath of the Goddess.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-06-21 15:05  

#7  ^Those areas are next on the Trans hit list.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-06-21 15:01  

#6  This just goes to show that women are a very low priority on the left.

Yes. I can see all the female executives, female professors, female politicians & female teachers of stem subjects raising in wrath.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-06-21 14:43  

#5  ^ The Left has only one priority and that is Power.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-06-21 14:34  

#4  Larry here is all jerk, no snatch.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-06-21 14:34  

#3  Prepare you entire life to compete and then have it swept away from you by boycotting stupidity.

women=51% of the population, trans=1%?

This just goes to show that women are a very low priority on the left. Sucks to be taken for granted but when you vote Pro Choice no matter what your party does you get what you get.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2021-06-21 13:52  

#2  The other weightlifters should just boycott the games.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-06-21 13:17  

#1  counldn't make as a man is what I see
Posted by: Chris   2021-06-21 13:05  

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