It has been confirmed that biological male Laurel Hubbard will be competing in women’s weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics. It will mark the beginning of the end of women’s sports on the world stage.
Hubbard, a 43-year-old man who began to identify as a woman at the age of 35, will represent New Zealand in Tokyo next month. Hubbard is eleven years older than the recorded age of the next oldest qualifier, American Sarah Robles. Hubbard may not medal, but the reality is that this shouldn’t have happened regardless. Hubbard surely would not have qualified if not for being a biological male.
Even if Hubbard doesn’t win a medal, the damage has been done. There are limited spots for competitors, so while Hubbard is in, Kuinini Manumua is out. At 21 years old, Manumua would be competing in her first-ever Olympic Games representing Tonga. Instead, she will sit at home, and Tonga currently remains at four Olympic competitors instead of the five it deserves.
This is Kuinini ‘Nini’ Manumua, the woman who was ultimately displaced by inclusion of Laurel Hubbard.
She’s 21, and it would have been her first Olympics. pic.twitter.com/l8RH0q0njz
— Emma Hilton (@FondOfBeetles) June 21, 2021
That’s one Olympic dream crushed, but it won’t end there. The Tokyo Olympics will mark the beginning of the end for the integrity of women’s sports. Along with Hubbard, BMX rider Chelsea Wolfe will be attending the Olympics as an alternate for Team USA. Brazilian volleyball player Tiffany Abreu, U.S. marathon runner Megan Youngren, and U.S. track athlete CeCe Telfer all could potentially make it. All are biological men competing against women.
There is almost no athletic organization that oversees women’s sports that is willing to push back on this. World Rugby has so far, but national rugby organizations have rejected its ban and invited biological men to join their competitions. The WNBA is willing to invite biological men, seeing as that it prioritizes woke politics over the product it puts on the court. And, of course, the International Olympic Committee has now opened the doors on one of the biggest stages in sports.
Even while Russia is banned from fielding a team for the next two Olympics over doping, the natural biological advantage of male puberty has received the green light for competition, so long as a mostly useless one-year minimum of testosterone suppression is adhered to. And with transgenderism being a growing trend, we are likely to see more athletes like Hubbard, Wolfe, and Telfer.
More biological men will be waiting in the wings to take Olympic spots, professional contracts, or college scholarships. Women’s sports will be forever distorted as record after record falls to biological men, as has been the case in Connecticut track. And the Tokyo Olympics will mark the beginning of that process, at the global stage, at the highest level of the sport.
