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Anyone who supports males competing in women's sports either hates women or is an absolute moron of the highest order. Especially in this case. How can you defend the decision to exclude an underprivileged, minority woman in favour of a rich, white, privileged male and call yourself a feminist, or worse an intersectional feminist. It's shameful.

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Andy Turner - World bronze 2011, European and Commonwealth Champ 2010, 3 x Olympian, WR holder-200m hurdles summed it up: "Couldn't be more against this. I feel sorry for all the women cheated out of a potential medal."

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This all makes me almost too enraged to compose a coherent sentence. BUT oh how much I hope Hubbard in the Olympics will peak millions of formerly "just be kind" people 🙏

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The Hubbard company is up there in NZ. Green, organic and gives mass amounts to charity. But it also spawned Laurel... Maybe the only way to change minds is to stop buying favourite cereal and hit the family where it will hurt them. Then just maybe, they as a family, would try to do the decent thing and support Laurel to take a backward step and give up taking part against women. But I think we will be waiting a long, long time. This person wants fame and taking it from women is the only way to get it.

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Hubbard is a vile example of white supremacy, and misogyny in one package. Pushing a woman from a minority out of her own sex class and her career opportunities. He’s a liar and this piece does a brilliant round up of how disgusting he is. Thank you. When TRAs accuse us of being anti BLM we can use this as proof that that is the TRAs game not ours. I’m livid AGAIN.

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Brilliantly written! 👏👏

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The Triumph of the Willie, surely?

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How do these men even look at themselves in the mirror and not die of shame? But they seem quite simply not to have any. I have no psychology to explain it other than the condition known as narcisistic personality disorder. Voltaire's words seem to echo in my head - "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

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"Fa’afafine, which translates to “in the manner of a woman,” is American Samoa’s recognized and embraced third gender. Fa’afafine are Polynesians who are born biologically male but dress and live essentially like women. They take male lovers, wear makeup, and wrap their bodies in dresses, but they do not consider themselves women."

From 2014. Shows how fast the capture has happened. A fa'afafine happily playing in the men's soccer team and profiled by Out.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.out.com/entertainment/sports/2014/06/26/soccer-trans-jayiah-saelua-american-samoa-third-gender-faafafine%3famp

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Ha Ha I bet Tom's beard fell off. I hope the spectacle of Hubbard cheating women will backfire.

Did you clock Oli London (a British Instagram enthusiast & wannabe singer) coming out as non-binary and Korean? https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/oli-london-twitter-korean-non-binary-b1870491

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Jun 23, 2021Liked by Graham Linehan

Just showed the picture of Hubbard on the podium with the 2 women and told him this person is on the women's weightlifting team for NZ in the Tokyo Olympics. He said who, that bloke!? 😁 Really hoping this will be a massive awareness campaign for the madness of wokery and trans ideology.

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That podium picture, say what you see. A MAN placing HIMSELF above WOMEN. WOMEN who have worked far harder to get there. Look at the 'records' HE set, trouncing WOMEN. How can ANYONE look at this and have the utter braindead reflex woke response that this is right? World PLEASE WAKE UP!!!

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Question: what material difference(s) exist between a male who just wants to cheat at sports, and a male who cheats at sports while calling himself Sally?

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Jun 25, 2021Liked by Genevieve Gluck

Also just showed this to my husband, who was incredulous. He said, what happened to the words, ‘you can’t’? I wanna be a princess—well, you can’t, you’re not royal. I wanna compete in the female Olympics category, even though I’ve been a man for my entire life—well, you can’t.

How galling, how unabashed this 43-year-old cheat is, standing there with his face out, the gold medals over his huge male belly, enjoying his “win” while the two real female athletes stand below him on either side. Their faces express disbelief that this can really be happening in plain light of day, with the support of the sporting authorities. We can’t hear the clapping but they can, and they can barely believe it.

This is not a sporting competition.

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A really good, full-throated, uncaveated defense of sex-not-gender in the Guardian. Just a shame that it took sport - while the paper ignored prisons and rape-crisis shelters. So much less photogenic, I guess.

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