Transgender weightlifter's injury exit may be a blessing in disguise - but it is still cheating
The New Zealand athlete, Gavin Hubbard, who now pretends he is a she, and calls himself Laurel Hubbard, was to have competed today in a weightlifting event. But an elbow injury has meant he was forced to withdraw from competing. And that is a good thing too. Born in New Zealand in 1978, he lived as a biological birth male until his early thirties as Gavin, the child of a former mayor of Auckland. Then he decided to transition to become female and to compete as an elite athlete using her reassigned gender. Totally unfair! This doesn't work the other way. The upshot? A labyrinthine legal and ethical mess, for which the Commonwealth Games offer just a fleeting platform. Come the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 , Gavin Hubbard is likely to present such an insoluble dilemma for those who support hte non-scientific view of transgenderism. . Here in Australia , he didn't escaped a full trial in the court of public opinion by dubious virtue of injuring himself. Just as Hubbard tri...