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Women’s Groups On Trans Athletes: ‘Males Competing In Women’s Sport Is Blatantly Unfair’

John Bickley

With the Tokyo Olympics looming, women’s groups in New Zealand and the U.K. are sounding the alarm over the threat posed to the integrity of women’s sports by biological males who identify as females being allowed to compete against females.

Among the most high profile of the male-to-female transgender athletes sparking the increasingly widespread outcry against the presence of biological males in women’s events is weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who competed as a man in the sport for decades before competing — and winning — as a woman in recent years.

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