Olympic Games Three transsexual women at the gates of the Games: Do they have an advantage or do they suffer discrimination?
New Zealand weightlifter
Laurel Hubbard
will become the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics after sports authorities confirmed on Monday that she will join her country's team.
The head of the
New Zealand
Olympic Committee
,
Kereyn Smith
, said
Hubbard
, 43, born a man but turned into a woman, meets all the conditions for the participation of transgender athletes.
"We recognize that transgender identity in sport is a highly sensitive and complex issue that requires a balance between human rights and fairness on the ground," he said in a statement.
Hubbard
, who also competed as a man, was recognized as a female athlete after having demonstrated lower levels of testosterone than those authorized by the
International Olympic Committee
(
IOC
).
His detractors estimate, however, that he starts with a physical advantage because he was born a man, to the detriment of female athletes.
He will compete in Tokyo in the category over 87 kg, in which he is ranked 16th in the world.
Hubbard has been out of competition for a long time after sustaining an elbow injury at
the Commonwealth Games
in 2018.
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