TOKYO: At 43, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is nearly twice the average age of her Tokyo 2020 competitors. Having shifted 285 kg in qualifying, she is also one of the strongest in the field.
But some former athletes and activists believe her background gives her an unfair physiological advantage, and say her inclusion in the super-heavyweight 87+kg category undermines a protracted struggle for women to be treated equally in sport. She is currently furthering the study through quantitative research on transathletes at Britain's Loughborough University.
It also sets out to compare transgender athletes with athletes born female who are of similar ages, sizes and abilities in a given sport. "There is a lot of disagreement across the whole world of sport... It's a matter of eligibility for sport and particular events and it really has to be sports-specific," he said.
Women are 'inclusive' means we generally don't want to kill those who are different that us. Male culture, by comparison, is intolerant and violent toward the trans folk. But women did not agree to having the spaces we fought long and hard for taken over by lipsticked patriarchy.
that's ridiculous
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