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BBC: First transgender athlete to compete at Olympics

By BBC.
A government official carries a bag with the logo of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games during a meeting between Tokyo’s governor Yuriko Koike and president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organising Committee Seiko Hashimoto at the Tokyo metropolitan government building in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2021.
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New Zealand’s Laurel Hubbard has become the first ever transgender athlete picked to compete at an Olympics, in a controversial decision. Officials have selected her for the women’s weightlifting team for Tokyo 2020, after qualifying requirements were recently modified.

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