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20 Jun 2022

FINA ban transgender swimmers, Olympic champion Emily Seebohm says THIS

Four-times Olympic champion Cate Campbell told FINA’s EGC that she supported a restriction on transgender athletes competing in women’s categories and urged people to ‘listen to the science and experts’.

03 Aug 2021

Tokyo Olympics: Laurel Hubbard says she is not a transgender role model

But her participation in the Games has stoked a huge debate on whether being more inclusive towards transgender athletes competing in women’s events means disadvantaging athletes who were born as women. Hubbard, who was twice the age of the other competitors in her weight class, said it was time to consider retiring because age had caught up with her and the physical challenge of training and competing had become too demanding.

22 Jun 2021

NZ weightlifter Hubbard to be first transgender athlete to compete at Olympics

The IOC has consistently said it is committed to inclusion IOC is also reviewing its guidelines to take into account the "perceived tension between fairness/safety and inclusion/non-discrimination". BMX rider Chelsea Wolfe, another transgender athlete, will travel to Tokyo as part of the United States team, but is named as an alternate and not assured of competing.

30 Jul 2019

Weightlifter Hubbard becomes lightning rod for criticism of transgender policy

Hubbard, who competed for New Zealand in men`s weightlifting before her transition in her thirties, won two golds and a silver in three of the women`s heavyweight categories at the Games in Samoa earlier this month.

02 Apr 2018

Commonwealth chiefs 'fully supportive' of trans weightlifter

Commonwealth Games organisers assured transgender New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard of their full support on Monday as she prepares to compete at Gold Coast.

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