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> In what way is Vanbellinghen not questioning Hubbard's identity? Not all women are allowed to participate in powerlifting competitions. For example, people n
by Zababa 5y ago
> In what way is Vanbellinghen not questioning Hubbard's identity?
Not all women are allowed to participate in powerlifting competitions. For example, people not qualified couldn't. People that are known steroids abusers couldn't. That doesn't make them less women.
- ALittleLight 5y agoSure, but Vanbellinghen is not claiming Hubbard should be disqualified on those grounds. The issue is that Hubbard is a biological male and has an innate advantage when it comes to lifting things.
- Zababa 5y ago> Vanbellinghen, 27, whose qualifying efforts were disrupted by injury, pointed out that the retained benefit of taking steroids, even years earlier, is widely known. > "So 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]? The issue would be the same with a long term steroid user consider how it was worded.