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New Zealander Laurel Hubbard has become the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Olympic Games after being named to the women’s weightlifting team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Hubbard, who failed to record a successful lift in the women’s +87kg category, competed in the men’s competition before coming out as transgender in 2013.
In Paris 2024, Algerian Iman Khelif won the women’s welterweight boxing gold medal, a year after she was disqualified from the world championships due to failing a gender eligibility test.
The International Olympic Committee has cleared the 25-year-old to compete, alongside Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who has also been banned by the suspended International Boxing Federation.
The International Olympic Committee said competitors are eligible to enter the women’s category if their passports indicate that they are female.
Both fighters said they were women, had always competed in the women’s division, and there was no indication they were transgender.
Some reports have taken the IBA saying Khalif has XY chromosomes to speculate that the fighter may have differences of sex development (DSD), like runner Caster Semenya. However, the BBC has been unable to confirm whether this is the case or not.
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