USA Powerlifting has been ordered by a discrimination court to allow biological males who identify as "transgender" athletes to compete in the women's division.
British commentator and former CNN host Piers Morgan castigated the idea of biological males competing in women's sports as transgender women after a special forces combat veteran demolished a biologically female MMA fighter during a Friday match.
New Zealand transexual weightlifter Laurel Hubbard failed to record a single successful lift in the women’s +87kg weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday morning, crashing out of the competition in the process.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reaffirmed its full support of transgender athletes Friday when medical director Richard Budgett declared “transwomen are women” and should be included in women’s sport “when we possibly can.”
NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre said recently that transgender lifter Laurel Hubbard should not be permitted to compete in women's events in next month's Tokyo Games.
Transgender woman weightlifter Laurel Hubbard competing in the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games is "like a bad joke" to biological female athletes, a rival weightlifter told Inside the Games.
New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard is set to compete in Tokyo after the introduction of new rules letting transgender women enter female events. This is an affront to top athletes who spend their lives training to be the world’s best.
