Not resting on her Laurels, nor should sporting bodies

Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/gray-olympics-concrete-block-133325/

I feel very conflicted about the Laurel Hubbard controversy. In case you didn’t get the memo, Laurel Hubbard is a New Zealand transgender weightlifter who was selected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics, thereby making her the first openly transgender athlete, post-transition, to compete in the Olympic Games. A re-evaluation of the International Olympic Committee’s rules on transgender athletes competing is overdue, but it doesn’t need to exclude them.

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