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Tokyo Olympics: petition against Laurel Hubbard highlights debate on transgender athletes
Nadia Lam
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Laurel Hubbard competes during the women s +90kg weightlifting final at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Photo: AFP
Nine months after starting hormone therapy in 2004, transgender distance runner Joanna Harper found she was 12 per cent slower than she was beforehand - equal to the difference between the performance of male and female distance runners.
This led her to start studying transgender athletes, and since 2005 she has tracked the performance of about 40 sportspeople after they transitioned. She is now a PhD researcher at Loughborough University in the UK and author of the book Sporting Gender. ....

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