Kuinini ‘Nini’ Manumua is an American of Tongan descent who hoped to compete for Team Tonga at the Tokyo Olympics.
She suffered a terrible injury last June while training which resulted in a fractured leg.
In order to have a shot at qualifying for the Games this summer she needed aggressive rehab and then had to return to competitive form in time for the trials.
Which she miraculously did then it was all taken away because a biological male is being allowed to compete with the females.
As Jo Bartosch at Spiked online points out that Manumua would have been the first female weightlifter ever to represent Tonga in the Olympics.
“It doesn’t just take skill to break world records, it also takes balls. And what 43-year-old New Zealander Laurel Hubbard lacks in one, he makes up for in the other.
At 36, Hubbard was a mediocre male weightlifter nearing the end of his career. This changed in 2012 when Hubbard ‘transitioned’ to become a world-class super heavyweight in the women’s category. And this week things got even better for Hubbard, when it was announced that, thanks to a 2015 change in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines, he will be permitted to compete against females at the Tokyo Olympics.
This will make him the first transgender athlete to compete officially at an Olympics...
The inclusion of Hubbard in the women’s weightlifting category will certainly be an entertaining spectacle – there is nothing more delicious than watching the wokerati choke on reality. But the cost will weigh heavily on women athletes, whose dedication and skill will be annihilated by the presence of Hubbard.
The name of the woman denied a place by Hubbard qualifying is Kuinini ‘Nini’ Manumua. She’s half Hubbard’s age, and Tokyo would have been her first Olympics.
It is no more offensive to admit that, on average, men outperform women in sport than it is to acknowledge that men can’t give birth. It is, however, offensive to reduce the biological reality of womanhood to a testosterone marker.
With training and dedication there was a possibility that Hubbard could have become a champion male weightlifter. But what is certain is that Hubbard will never be a woman.”