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Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,254 ✭✭✭✭

The Summer Olympics 2021 in Japan!


Looking at the lines ups it looks like there is a new twist this year....................Tranys! Several countrys are sending tranys to compete, from what i have seen all are men trying to be women.


I think I will pass.


This guy was a.................well a guy in the last Olympics and now he is a..............well a guy who is going to compete as a girl.

C&P

Laurel Hubbard is the most reluctant of trailblazers as she prepares to become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics, reigniting debate on one of the most divisive issues in sport.

The New Zealand weightlifter is softly spoken and intensely shy, insisting during rare media interviews that she just wants to be left alone to pursue her sport.

Yet the 43-year-old's presence at the Tokyo Games beginning next month promises to be seismic, bringing into the Olympic arena an issue that challenges sport's traditional binary categories of male and female.

Hubbard was born male and competed as a man before transitioning to female in her 30s, becoming eligible to lift as a woman after showing testosterone levels below the threshold required by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

She will compete in the women's +87kg category, where she is ranked 16th in the world but rated a reasonable chance of a medal as the Covid-19 pandemic has prevented many higher-ranked rivals attending the Games.

RLTW

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