Hubbard is the first openly transgender woman to compete at the OlympicsThe director of the IOC’s medical and scientific department has said that the threat to women’s sports posed by transgender athletes competing is “probably overstated”. The comments from Richard Budgett, who won an Olympic rowing gold medal for Great Britain as part of the coxed four team in Los Angeles in 1984, come as New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard prepares to become the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics on Monday. SponsoredThe 43-year-old, who was born male and competed as a man before transitioning to female in her 30s, will compete in the women’s +87kg weightlifting in Tokyo. Her presence has raised concerns about a potentially unfair advantage being proffered by the physical attributes which remain in the body from her years as

Source: The Times July 31, 2021 08:14 UTC