Donald Trump continued his attacks on transgender female athletes in his opening speech at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Thursday.
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He set a record, referring to a transwoman weight lifter who appears to have beaten a trans woman.
“You’re in 18 years it’s standing and they’re watching weightlifting having this young woman,” he said. al.com, Several Alabama Newspaper sites. “And her parents are where you are in the front row. And they’re so proud of her. And there’s £209. And she’s going to lift it, the record has been standing for 18 years.”
He “then imitated a woman who struggled to push a barbell over her head,” the site reports.
“I can’t,” he said. “And then the guy comes – or gals etc. – the transitioner comes.”
“And he was a weight lifter that failed as a man, but he comes with him – 206 pounds – they put down a small one. [weights] On – He goes to “boom, boom.” “And we’re breaking the record by about 119 pounds,” Trump said.
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He didn’t name the trance weightlifter, but he It may be referring Anne Andres, a trans woman who won the Western Canada Championships of the Canadian Powerlifting Union in 2023, beating cisgender women and breaking records.
However, Andres is an outlier. They are very few trans women in women’s sports and do not dominate women’s track and field. There are also many other factors besides birth and gender assigned to hormones that contribute to athletic performance. Moreover, Trump certainly made female athletes look weak.
The most famous transwoman weight lifter is Laurel Hubbard, New Zealand’s first trans athlete to compete in the Olympics in 2021. However, she did not win a medal.
Trump’s speech at university was also full of falsehoods. Fact check by al.com and other sources. He again claimed that the 2020 presidential election was “equipped” and that he actually defeated Joe Biden. “We didn’t accurately cite the margin of his victory in Alabama for any of the three general elections he was a candidate.” “I claimed that egg prices had fallen 87% since he took office,” when they were actually happening. “The claimed gas prices are falling, but the numbers don’t carry that.” According to the article, “We boast of having the most successful 100-day presidential administration in our country’s history.”
“The argument is subjective, but some benchmarks overshadow his claims,” ​​the site reports, including his historically low approval rate and economic recession.
Source: Advocate.com – www.advocate.com
