This is an ~astonishingly~ bad take that is wrong in any number of ways https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/jul/22/current-impasse-transgender-athletes …
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When your supposedly "nuanced" argument about transgender athletes starts with deadnaming someone and then blaming them for their own successpic.twitter.com/ZDTaPjU5YO
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I mean, the article argues that no one should become an overnight success by transitioning because that's "unfair" but simultaneously attacks a trans athlete who took almost a decade to get back on top after setting records in the 90s

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Also, if you're going to paint trans athletes as a huge problem for women's weightlifting, it's disingenuous to omit that Hubbard is the first trans person (AFAIK) to win any international weightlifting competition
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And all of the stuff about testosterone is wildly off-base. Read some of @Karkazis work on the complexities of testosterone and sport i.e. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/06/testosterone-biological-sex-sports-bodies …
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