The place of transgender athletes in sports is tough. I think a lot of men going under transition while still have a lot of natural advantages that won't be taken away just from hormone therapy. That won't impact bones (height, hip size, etc).He has become an unlikely feminist icon: the weightlifting hip-hop artist and Oxford graduate who set out to demonstrate that athletes who are genetically male should not be competing alongside women.
The rapper, whose stage name is Zuby, was filmed last week smashing the British women’s deadlift record, in which the weights are raised from the ground to thigh level, while he said he was “identifying as a woman”. The video has had almost 1m views on Twitter.
The 32-year-old later beat the UK women’s bench press record too, joking that his work was “strong, stunning and brave”.
Man Breaks Female weightlifting records while identifying as woman
Man Breaks Female weightlifting records while identifying as woman
Then goes back to identifying as a man
It's not me, it's someone else.
Man Breaks Female weightlifting records while identifying as woman
Some authorized body needs to apply a temporary ban on records being broken until they can figure out how to deal with this. The trans folks should be allowed to compete, but there is a genetic advantage.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”