Years back they made it so steroids are illegal in the Olympics. It gave athletes an unfair advantage and they wanted all of the athletes that were competing against each other to have the same chances of winning. They wanted it to be all about how hard the athletes trained and if their techniques were good enough. But you can throw all of that out the window now that NZ is pushing a transwoman into the female weightlifting category.
“Van Bellinghen, 27, is looking to qualify in the same weight category as New Zealand’s Hubbard — the over-87-kilogram super-heavyweights — and is directly affected by the presence of Hubbard, who’s set to become the first openly transgender athlete to qualify for the Olympics in any sport, the website reported.
Hubbard, 43 — a biological male who identifies as female and has competed against women for several years — began transitioning to female at age 35.
Van Bellinghen pointed out to Inside the Games that it’s widely known athletes can retain the benefit of taking steroids even years earlier — so, therefore “why is it still a question whether two decades, from puberty to the age of 35, with the hormonal system of a man, also would give an advantage [in competing against women]? I understand that for sports authorities nothing is as simple as following your common sense and that there are a lot of impracticalities when studying such a rare phenomenon, but for athletes, the whole thing feels like a bad joke.”
“… I do believe that everyone should have access to sports, but not at the expense of others.”
It’s really just not fair to the women that have to compete against a person who identified as a man for 35 years. How is that a level playing field? It ruins the Olympics as women train for years just to get into the Olympics and somehow now a transwoman is allowed in. This should be considered cheating.