Samoa says it’s unfair for transgender weightlifters to compete in women’s divisions and plan to take their protest to the International Weightlifting Federation.
New Zealand lifter Laurel Hubbard won the over 90kg division at the Australian International event in Melbourne earlier this month.
The President of the Samoa Weightlifting Federation, Jerry Wallwork, said the move will discourage women from participating in the sport.
“I really don’t think it’s fair. I’ve seen it up in front, in person, and especially when you’ve got someone who was a champions male lifter and now competing with the women, against the women,” he said.
You meet the testosterone levels and you get it down to a certain level but you’ve still got the muscles and the bones of a man and of course you’ve still got the strength there – it doesn’t matter how low you go.
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