New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first openly transgender athlete to compete in an Olympics on Monday, and her participation has been a divisive issue
A petition calling on the Olympic Committee to bar transgender athletes competing in women's divisions has been removed ahead of her games debut.Hubbard was born male but changed her name eight years ago and underwent hormone therapy to transition before resuming weightlifting, a sport she abandoned more than a decade ago.
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