Transgender sport in the moral maze
The Olympics are conscripted into the culture wars. Inevitably.
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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