Robert Bridge – Strategic Review June 23, 2021
It seems ridiculous to have to remind anyone of the obvious anatomical differences between males and females, but such is the state of the current world we live in.
Laurel Hubbard will go down in the history books at the Tokyo Olympics as the first transgender athlete to compete at the Games. But the consequences of this decision for female athletes and women in general will be devastating and long-lasting.
The day may be imminent when natural-born females are no longer represented on the Olympic medal podium as biological males start to make serious inroads into their sports.
Laurel Hubbard, 43, is among five weightlifters chosen to represent New Zealand in the Tokyo Olympics to compete in the women’s 87-kilogram category. As an aside, he is also the progeny of Dick Hubbard, the former liberal mayor of Auckland. The criticism and controversy that has greeted the news of the first transgender athlete to participate in the Games does not seem misplaced. First, Hubbard, whose inclusion won the approval of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, will enjoy a competitive advantage over his contenders that has been scientifically proven to come with inborn male attributes.
It seems ridiculous to have to remind anyone of the obvious anatomical differences between males and females, but such is the state of the current world we live in.
According to one study, published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine, “trans women still had a 9% faster mean run speed after the 1 year period of testosterone suppression that is recommended by World Athletics for inclusion in women’s events.”
The developmental biologist Dr. Emma Hilton seconded this opinion.
“Males can run faster, jump longer, throw further and lift heavier than females,” Hilton confirmed in a 2019 discussion. “They outperform females by 10% on the running track to 30% when throwing various balls.”
Hilton went on to produce some sports trivia to support her claim: there are 9,000 males between 100m world record holders Usain Bolt and Florence Griffith Joyner, the fastest woman of all time; the current female 100m Olympic champion, Elaine Thompson, is slower than the 14 year old schoolboy record holder; under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women’s National Team in a scrimmage.
And so on.
Those raw statistics are not meant to diminish, of course, the tremendous achievements made by female athletes. Rather, they are meant to demonstrate the very definite boundary that exists – or should exist – between male and female contenders. In fact, the physical differences between the sexes could actually come down to a matter of life and death. Already blood has been spilt.
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Consider, for example, the 2014 Mixed Martial Arts contest between Fallon Fox and Tamikka Brents. Fox, the first transgender fighter in MMA history, subjected Brents to a violent beating that resulted in a fractured skull and concussion. How long before a female athlete suffers serious injury – possibly even death – at the hands of a transgender woman on the field of dreams?
As worrisome as that possibility may be, the real issue for female athletes is that these biological males are simply seen as interlopers trespassing on their territory, disqualifying them from the right to perform. Just ask Kuinini ‘Nini’ Manumua, 21, the woman who was deprived of making the Kiwi team due to the inclusion of Hubbard, who lived 35 years as a male before transitioning. As for Manumua, it would have been her first Olympics
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
Criticism on the decision to include Hubbard on the New Zealand team has been fierce. Belgian weightlifter Anna Vanbellinghen said that allowing Hubbard to compete at Tokyo was unfair to female athletes, calling it “a bad joke.”
New Zealander Daniel Leo, a former professional rugby player turned CEO, remarked in a tweet that the decision to include Hubbard “tarnishes [New Zealand’s] reputation BIG TIME.”
Meanwhile, the British advocacy group, Fair Play for Women, slammed the IOC’s policy as “blatantly unfair.”
“The IOC stated in its 2015 transgender guidelines that the overriding sporting objective is, and remains, the guarantee of fair competition,” remarked Nicola Williams, FPFW director. “But its current rules are blatantly unfair to women, and to trans gender women, who both want to play by rules which are fair to everybody.”
In the United States, meanwhile, resistance to the madness has taken root. A number of state legislatures are opposed to the idea of permitting transgender women to play sports alongside women. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa and Kentucky, for example, are just some of the states that have passed legislation strictly forbidding the participation of biological males in female sports unless they have undergone full reassessment surgery and taken the relative hormones.
Louisiana law, by way of example, states that the student-athlete is eligible to compete in the reassigned gender when, among other procedures, “surgical anatomical changes have been completed, including external genitalia changes and gonadectomy.” They even demand that “legal recognition of the sex reassignment has been conferred with all the proper governmental agencies (Driver’s license, voter registration, etc.).”
Meanwhile, in ultra-liberal states, like California, Connecticut and Colorado, public schools are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of gender identity and gender expression. Now with Biden’s executive order on gender identity and sexual orientation in effect, schools are even legally required to let transgender females use the bathroom and changing facilities that match their gender identity, thereby invading the privacy of female students both on the field and in the locker room.
Clearly, what needs to happen in order to ensure fairness and safety on the playing field (and in the locker room) is for more professional athletes to speak out on this alarming trend. One such brave woman is Czech-born American tennis star, Martina Navratilova, who is among a group of female athletes that launched the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, which operates according to the idea that “if sports were not sex-segregated, female athletes would rarely be seen in finals or on victory podiums.”
The 18-time winner of the Grand Slam title opposed a situation where “trans men and women, just based on their self-id, would be able to compete with no mitigation … that clearly would not be a level playing field.”
Unfortunately, it appears that the IOC, by permitting Laurel Hubbard the right to compete alongside biological females, has taken a radically different view and approach on the matter, and this decision has all the potential to set back women sports by decades, if not make it altogether redundant.
Speak up now, ladies, or forever forfeit your rightful place on the Olympic podium.
Feminists opened Pandoras box and are now starting to pay the price.
They attacked men wherever they could, forcing themselves in and men out. Men have been ridiculed, falsely accused and discriminated against. But now women are finding that they are themselves being targeted by the transgender lobby.
Too bad.
It’s another example of just how bizarre things have become with the takeover of Western civilization by the ✡jews.
What could be crazier than electing a president suffering from Dementia…..it’s downright mad ..
Maybe NZers will begin to realize just how stupid they have been electing the CRAZY POLITICALLY CORRECT Zìo-bitch Ardern.
There is still a question mark over that video featuring Ardern walking down the corridor in parliament with what looks suspiciously like a “package”….it is possible Ardern is an hermaphrodite???.
Ardern is loopy BUT gets no pressure whatsoever from the media.
Ardern promised to drastically cut immigration…..it’s higher than ever.
She promised to build a ton of houses….hardly any have been built.
She intends to introduce “hate speech” legislation…..NOW THAT IS SOMETHING SHE IS VERY LIKELY TO DO!!!.
PERHAPS….Worst of all She is putting NZs sovereignty at risk by not cooperating with the five eyes security arrangement…..
Think about the “takeover” of Darwins port facilities by the Chinese…..ALL OF THIS COMES FROM CRYPTO JEWS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE AUSTRALIAN AND NZ GOVERNMENTS.
From memory this weightlifter FREAKS father is a crypto jew…which will be worth double checking……
Why author is calling Martina Navratilova brave? She is lesbian and she and her feminists girlfriends for decades forced on society progressive ideas about “freedom of sexual expression”. Obviously they thought it will be just against real men which they hate. And, truth be told, majority of women supported this screaming bunch of nutcases. Unfortunately for all of them, they didn’t realized that they opened Pandora’s box and now monster turned against its creators. Since real men are scared, blackmailed and in defensive (again, due to lesbian/feminist work) biological women are now alone in fight with their own monster.
I’m a man and have no intention even verbally to support women in this fight. Majority of women must realize, unfortunately on hard way, what damage to their status in society is inflicting ideology called feminism. Requesting equal opportunity based on merits is one thing, but feminism as ideology wants to transform society and transgenders taking over women’s sport is one of the result. It’s up to women to decide what’s going to be.
FloJo cheated with male hormones, so the real woman’s record is not 10.49 , more like 10.8. Monism is the grand philosophical error that gives us monotheism, one Race, one sex, one world, one God, and sport is suffering from the one-sex aspect of this. Creation requires a dynamic and this requires opposites, most probably a duality, since not more than two are needed. We are more reluctant to accept dualism because if we are, at most, half the story, we are not in a full-spectrum dominance, which the primitive part of us likes. (Bolt cheated too but the ten per cent figure remains acceptably correct).
I suspect a lot of these men are not competitive against other men but are ambitious enough to compete against women. I think in time they’ll come to regret cheating a woman into second place in her own sport and deny her her chance of winning, because in years to come when they look at their trophy cabinet to reflect on past success, every one of their important trophies will have “Women’s…” engraved on it.
No man can boast too loudly about winning against women in women’s sports. But cheating the women who should have won those competitions, that’s going to be a cause of deep regret they can never repair.
Women were at the forefront of equality. Anything that a man can do, a woman can do. Now that’s being proved wrong, they start moaning. White men should be saying that black men should be excluded from sprint racing because they have a biological advantage. Vice versa in the swimming pool.
Ladies, you can’t have it both ways. You are equal or you aren’t.
This had to happen
when they decriminalised homosexuality experts said attacks on children would go through the roof
and they have soared i was a social worker dealing with cases like this and it is so distressing, and the police are so reluctant to prosecute as homosexuality is legal
A mediocre male athlete can beat the best female athletes in everything except billiards, curling, and maybe golf.
Two ho-hum volleyball players in high school gym class used to go over to the girls side and play against the entire girls gym class. They always beat the girls so badly that it wasn’t even fun, so they only did it for a couple weeks.
This is unconscionable.
I think MM fails to see that the transgender demographic seeks only self-affirmation within its own community – the sentiment of others and, in particular, natural-born women, doesn’t concern them in the least. Transgenderism, for the greater part, is an autogynephilic drive. The reason autogynephiles are so brazen, so disruptive, so callous – is that these qualities, unadmired in any ordinary circumstance, have been taken to be a measure of authenticity, integral to transgender advocacy. You cannot persuade autogynephiles of their error. It would be as easy as persuading young men and young women not to look slantingly with bristling excitement at one and other during springtime. There’s no innocence amongst aggrandizing transgenders, though. They will remain forever shameless.
New Zealand should be ashamed of itself for initiating the final collapse of the Olympic games and negating the Corinthian spirit, quite possibly, forever.
why would women want to lift these crazy heavy weights ?
The creature they call Aderne is an obvious MTF tranny, so she and her Baphomet worshippers are obviously endorsing one of their kind. Ever heard of boycott you NZ women athletes? And not just the weightlifters……..the whole Olympic team. Come to think of it, the whole of the men’s NZ Olympic team. You have the power but don’t use it. That would give the Satan worshippers something to cogitate, as they increasingly succeed in enslaving us. BTW if ever you dwell upon Aderne, she was in the UK working for Mr Bliar and his Labour administration. Says it all.
There is, of course, an incredibly easy way to stop this, but women are too stupid, or too greedy to do what’s needed to be done.
You simply BOYCOTT the sport, as a female competitor.
If the women all walk off the race track, when they see the tranny in another lane, then there’s no race. Sure, the tranny will be put down as the winner, but then eventually the crowds will stop coming and the games won’t happen.
It’s about choice.
What the women then do is have a race, on their own and friends record the race, where the winner is then declared, minus the fruitcake.
The ratio of lower to upper arm is different in a man and a woman. A man’s proportionate longer forearms gives a mechanical advantage with lifting…not to mention all the other things…So when they chop off his todger they also needed to chop off arms at the elbows and move the joint lower down somehow…
The ‘Best Before’ date on the Olympics expired decades ago. You know…I’ve never really given a damn about who can jump higher run faster, and out perform. Couple that with the insipid corporate and wannabe nationalist pride that goes along with the Olympics…
The Williams Brothers made me give up all interest in Women’s/Trannies’ Tennis years ago.
@lewisjones, where’s the proof that Usain Bolt cheated? Put up of piss off.
Oh, but this is just an “amuse bouche”. Ivy League business schools are now peddling “research” that shows women are PHYSICALLY stronger than men!
I’m guessing, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet…
@ andyay. I don’t believe most athletes like this fellow really consider themselves trans. I’m not confused about it, I just don’t believe him. I do believe some male-to-female trans do have issues for reasons other than competing in women’s sports. And why would you care about competing in sports if you’re going through mind-bending hormone-confusing processes? Why don’t female-to-male do it?
I’m saying I don’t think this guy is trans. I think he’s just another sports cheat. I think your real motive was to try and force me to accept his claim because he says it’s so. I say he’s lying, and I think in a few years’ time when his sports days are over he’ll give up being a woman and go back to being a man again.
I’m laughing, rolling on the floor ! KARMA has hit the Feminazis !
Love it.. & more KARMA is going to happen, to all the freak scums IMHO
To laquan–there was a suppressed scandal involving All the Jamaican sprinters and their use of a herbal drug known in their country. I assumed the fastest of the sprinters was a user. I admit it is not exactly proven, but where do you find three extra metres? It’s not like people were not trying before.
drugs are rife in sport
the trick is not to get caught
this is why no one is interested in sport
and no one wnated the london olympics
@ MM.
I wasn’t trying to force you to believe anything, old fellow. My comment was a general one, really. I just hooked on to your idea of guilt afflicting transgender competitors in their future. lives.
Your answer that you don’t believe that this individual is transgender dysphoric, seems perfectly reasonable to me. You weren’t quite explicit on that in your first post, though.