Opinion | transscribe: Hubbard’s performance in the Games should undermine many of the arguments against trans inclusion in women’s sports, but it won’t. - MSNBCDaily
after failing to complete any of her three attempts in the snatch. She missed her first attempt at 120 kilograms, then appeared to lift her second attempt at 125 kilograms over her head, though officials ruled it a “no lift.” On her third and final attempt at 125 kilograms, Hubbard failed to stand up with the weight. She was the only competitor in the field not to complete a lift.
“Thank you so very much for your interest in my humble sporting performance tonight,” Hubbard said to the media afterward. “I know from a sporting perspective, I did not live up to the standards I put upon myself... I know my participation in these Games has not been entirely without controversy.” It would appear that women’s sports are still intact, despite years of transphobic and gender critical hand-wringing over trans participation. And the status of women’s sports is hardly determined by one trans competitor competing somewhere in the world in one sport anyway.
But Hubbard still made history by becoming the first openly trans woman to compete in a women’s sport in the Olympics since the International Olympic Committee first allowed trans women to compete as women with bottom surgery in 2004. The IOC later relaxed the rules in 2015, allowing trans women to compete without surgery but under a heavily regulated testosterone limit.Many trans women tried and failed to qualify for this year’s Games.
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