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Transgender sport in the moral maze

Transgender sport in the moral maze

The Olympics are conscripted into the culture wars. Inevitably.

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Melanie Phillips
Jun 24, 2021
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Michael Buerk, in the chair on BBC’s Moral Maze

On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, we tackled the participation of transgender athletes in sporting competitions.

Our peg was the controversy over the New Zealand transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard. Hubbard previously competed in men’s events before “transitioning” in 2013, and is to compete as a woma…

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