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23 June, 2021, 12:10 pm
Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard might be dividing opinion but one rival competitor says she has nothing but respect for the Kiwi. ALEX PANTLING/GETTY IMAGES
Laurel Hubbard – the first openly transgender athlete selected for the Olympic Games – guards her privacy zealously, but has always insisted all she wants is to be herself.
Yet, the 43-year-old has been a polarising figure since she burst onto the world weightlifting stage in 2017 after transitioning to female.
The debate Hubbard has lived with for the last four years is likely to remain intense, after she was named in a five-strong New Zealand weightlifting team for next month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo.
By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Sunday, May 9, 2021
The Olympic Games for the first time could feature transgender athletes on women’s teams, sending the debate about competitive fairness versus gender identity in female athletics to the world’s biggest sports stage.
At least three transwomen are viewed as strong contenders for slots on their nations’ women’s Olympic teams, and one, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, reportedly clinched a place last week under the International Weightlifting Federation’s revised pandemic system.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee, with a May 31 deadline, has not officially announced its team, but reports that Ms. Hubbard, 43, has effectively qualified in the super heavyweight division prompted one former competitor to speak out.
At least three biological men will compete in the Olympics as women
The Olympic Games for the first time could feature transgender athletes on women’s teams.
At least three biological men, who say they are transwomen, are contenders for slots on their nation’s women’s Olympic teams.
One of them is from New Zealand.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee, with a May 31 deadline, has not officially announced its team, but reports that transperson Laurel Hubbard, 43, has effectively qualified in the super heavyweight division. That prompted one former competitor to speak out.
“I’m quite disappointed, quite disappointed for the female athlete who will lose out on that spot,” former weightlifter Tracey Lambrechs told TVNZ. “We’re all about equality for women in sport, but right now that equality is being taken away from us.”
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