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JK Rowling declares victory for women after Olympics banned trans athletes from female events - and says she's still waiting for Imane Khelif to sue her for cyberbullying

27/03/26 09:36
JK Rowling has claimed she is still waiting for Olympic gender row boxer Imane Khelif to sue her for cyberbullying, as the author celebrated the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banning transgender athletes from women's events. The IOC announced new rules aimed at protecting the women's category on Thursday. They will be in force for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. The organisation confirmed that eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females. ...read

Olympics BAN transgender athletes from ALL women's sports - in move which will block male weightlifter Laurel Hubbard and leave gender row boxer Imane Khelif facing sex test
26/03/26 13:08The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says that a once-in-a-lifetime SRY gene test will help 'protect fairness, safety and integrity in the female category'.
Women's rights campaigner Sharron Davies calls for urgent sex screening at Olympics - as gender row rumbles on following controversy around likes of boxer Imane Khelif at Paris 2024
18/11/25 14:43Sharron Davies has called on the IOC to ensure plans to ban transgender athletes extend to the 'more important' issue around competitors with differences in sexual development (DSD).
Transgender athletes won't face blanket ban from 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow despite Olympics being set to exclude them
11/11/25 21:00The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year will not adopt a blanket ban of transgender athletes - despite the Olympic Games looking likely to do so.
Named: The athletes who face being BANNED from the Olympics with new transgender and DSD rules to block male-born competitors out of women's sport
10/11/25 16:25Four years on, it seems like those who dreamed of following in Hubbard's footsteps will be blocked from doing so.
Athletes fear track and field could soon be embroiled into the transgender debate after controversy surrounding cyclist Emily Bridges as one star admits: 'It's a situation that could happen in any sport'
02/04/22 21:52On the back of the furore around Lia Thomas in US college swimming and the controversy surrounding British cyclist Emily Bridges, athletics stars fear their sport will enter a similar storm.
Ben Fordham slams decision to award Kiwi Olympic transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard sportswoman of the year - saying the decision makes 'life HARDER for women'
04/10/21 23:15Ben Fordham fears the decision to crown New Zealand transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard Sportswoman of the year would make life 'harder for women'.
Controversial transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is named sportswoman of the year in New Zealand
02/10/21 05:47She was awarded this title by the University of Otago, Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand at the Blues awards earlier this week on Tuesday.
Tom Daley hits back at Russian state TV channel that made homophobic attacks against him and other LGBT athletes at Tokyo Olympics
08/08/21 16:53Channel Rossiya 1 made a number of bigoted slurs against Tom Daley during the Tokyo Games, as well as against other LGBT athletes.
'Men are still men': Conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey posts defiant tweet as she's released from 'Twitter jail' after ban for calling transgender New Zealand Olympian Laurel Hubbard a man
07/08/21 14:12Conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey was released from 'Twitter jail' on Friday after calling transgender Olympic athlete Laurel Hubbard a 'man.'
Olympic chiefs will investigate anti-LGBT and homophobic slurs targeting Tom Daley and New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard on Russian TV
06/08/21 11:19Daley, who won a diving gold medal for Team GB, was targeted on Rossiya 1 which aired homophobic slurs, including one of the panellists describing LGBT people as an 'abomination.'
BBC did NOT screen live coverage of trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard after warning it would report viewers who questioned her right to compete as a woman to 'authorities'
03/08/21 14:15The BBC did not broadcast the women's weightlifting on Day 10 of the Tokyo Olympics live, when transgender New Zealand athlete Laurel Hubbard crashed out of the 87kg+ category.
Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard says she wants to 'descend into graceful obscurity' after finishing LAST in the women's weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics
03/08/21 04:39The softly-spoken Kiwi was one of the most contentious points of the 2020 Tokyo Games after qualifying as the first transgender athlete to compete at the highest level.
Transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard exits Olympic stage with dignity after frenzy surrounding her participation... while Emily Campbell's magnificent weightlifting silver is just reward for the hard work to fund her own career
02/08/21 16:12RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN TOKYO: There was an splash and then the tiniest of waves. If Hubbard is the beginning of the end for the female category in sport then it truly is a takeover by stealth.
How Laurel Hubbard was a promising weightlifter as a teenage boy long before transitioning and aiming for Olympic glory as a woman
02/08/21 10:22Shy teen Gavin Hubbard led his school boy's weightlifting team to glory long before most of his fellow female Olympic competitors were even born.
New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard CRASHES out of Olympics after making history as the first trans woman to compete in a solo event
02/08/21 08:36Laurel Hubbard, 43, who gender transitioned in 2012, is competing in the 87+kg category in Tokyo after a controversial rule change by the International Olympic Committee.
Outrage as petition to change rules allowing Kiwi transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to compete as a woman is quietly CANCELLED ahead of her Olympic debut at 43 - as her success in the sport as a schoolboy is revealed
02/08/21 00:34More than 30,000 people signed the petition, which argued Hubbard's inclusion in the division put her competitors at a significant disadvantage.
Olympic advisor on trans athletes says history may judge it 'less than ideal' that transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is allowed to compete at Tokyo 2020
01/08/21 18:39Respected researcher Dr Joanna Harper, herself a trans woman, says she has her doubts about the New Zealander's participation in the women's weightlifting competition.
Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard trains before controversial Olympics appearance as she praises games as a 'global celebration of our hopes, ideals and values'
31/07/21 08:13Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, 43, could make history by becoming the first transgender woman to compete at the Olympics at this year's Tokyo games.
Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard praises the Olympics as a 'global celebration of our hopes, ideals and values' after critics said allowing her to compete was a 'bad joke'
30/07/21 15:20Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, 43, who competed as a man before transitioning in 2013, will compete at the Olympic Games on Monday in Tokyo.
New Zealand's transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will be shielded from trolls as she prepares to make history at the Tokyo Olympics
30/07/21 14:34Hubbard is set to become the first openly transgender woman at the Olympics when she competes in the +87kg category In Tokyo on Monday, sparking heated online debate.
British boss of USA Weightlifting says anyone stopping transgender athletes from competing will be 'on the wrong side of history' but warns inclusion has to come with 'fairness in competition'
16/07/21 08:23EXCLUSIVE: Phil Andrews (pictured), CEO of USA Weightlifting, claimed Olympic teams should be able to achieve gender parity and be inclusive in the sport.
HELEN JOYCE: Why I believe letting athletes who grew up as men compete in women's sports will provoke a public backlash
10/07/21 21:03HELEN JOYCE: The average adult man has 41 per cent more non-fat body mass than the average woman, 50 per cent more muscle mass in his legs and 75 per cent more in his arms.
Backlash to transgender Kiwi weightlifter grows with 21,000 signing petition calling for her to be pulled from Olympic team - as 96 per cent of Daily Mail readers say Laurel Hubbard has an unfair advantage
05/07/21 05:06The 43-year-old competitive weightlifter was selected to represent New Zealand at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics - making her the first transgender athlete to compete at sport's highest level.
EXCLUSIVE: How the first transgender Olympic weightlifter was 'shy' at school, spent her days training in the gym and even captained her all-boys team - as her peers recall 'Gavin' was ALWAYS uncomfortable around them
04/07/21 08:34The 43-year-old competitive weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was this week selected to represent New Zealand at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics - making her the first transgender athlete to do so.
Why it's wrong - and profoundly damaging - to make us all agree that someone is whatever gender they say they are: HELEN JOYCE argues the gender self-identification lobby is harming children, women - and trans people themselves
03/07/21 21:00What we are facing is a fundamental redefinition of what it means for anyone to be a man or woman - the supplanting of biology and a total rewrite of society's rules, with far-reaching consequences.
Weightlifter Emily Campbell defends Laurel Hubbard's Tokyo inclusion with New Zealander set to become the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics... as Team GB star insists 'she's qualified for this competition fairly'
30/06/21 15:01DAVID COVERDALE: Team GB confirmed on Wednesday Campbell's selection in the women's superheavyweight category in Tokyo, where she will come up against Hubbard.
Transgender hurdler is barred from competing in the US Olympics trials after she fails to prove she can meet the testosterone requirements
24/06/21 03:37Transgender runner CeCe Telfer will not be allowed to compete in the women's 400-meter hurdles at US Olympic trials because she has not demonstrated that she meets the testosterone requirements.
Ex-New Zealand Olympic weightlifter weighs in on transgender athletes after Laurel Hubbard qualified for Tokyo Games warning it will 'knock women out of sport'
23/06/21 19:17After seeing transgender Olympic weightlifter Laurel Hubbard break her national records in New Zealand, a recently retired female lifter is warning against trans athletes in women's sports.
'Males cannot compete against females': Packers legend Brett Favre slams transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard's inclusion on New Zealand's Olympic team, saying it's unfair to opponents
23/06/21 16:27Green Bay Packers legend and Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre says that allowing transgender women to compete in the Olympics is unfair to their competitors.
Trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard WILL NOT have an 'overwhelming advantage' at the Olympics, says an expert in transgender sport... as the Kiwi receives the backing of her Aussie rival and GB coach says he is only focused on his athletes
23/06/21 08:05Laurel Hubbard's inclusion in the New Zealand Olympic team has divided international opinion, however, an expert tells Sportsmail she will not have an overwhelming advantage in weightlifting.
SARAH VINE: I'm with Caitlyn Jenner... it's not fair for trans women to compete in female sport
22/06/21 22:03SARAH VINE: This week it was announced that a transgender weightlifter from New Zealand, Laurel Hubbard, will compete in the women's category at the Olympics.
New Zealand's PM throws her support behind transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard and argues she has every right to be included in the Tokyo Olympic team
22/06/21 06:43New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern throws her support behind Laurel Hubbard who will become the first transgender weightlifter to compete in the Olympics.
PIERS MORGAN: Allowing a transgender weightlifter to compete in the Tokyo Olympics is a terrible mistake that destroys women's rights to equality and fairness - and will kill the Olympic dream for female athletes
21/06/21 14:59Nicola Adams is a British female boxer who won the flyweight Olympic gold medal at both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Games. This week, Adams challenged me to an exhibition bout on Twitter.
'Biology in sport matters': British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies hits out at decision to allow transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to compete in Tokyo
21/06/21 13:41Commenting on the decision on Twitter, Sharon Davies said that Hubbard would have a '30% unfair advantage'.
The Olympics' first transgender athlete: Team New Zealand sparks outrage after picking a transgender woman weightlifter who competed as a man until 2013 as rivals call it 'a bad joke'
21/06/21 01:54The New Zealand Olympic Committee announced on Monday that Hubbard would be competing for her country in the women's super heavyweight category at the upcoming Games on July 23.
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard will become the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics as New Zealand confirm her selection for the Tokyo Games after qualifying requirements were modified to allow her to take part
20/06/21 23:40The 43-year-old, who competed in men's competition before transitioning in 2013, said she was 'grateful and humbled' after being selected in New Zealand's team for Tokyo.
BMX rider Chelsea Wolfe becomes Team USA's first transgender Olympian after qualifying for Tokyo Games as an alternate
18/06/21 19:08BMX rider Chelsea Wolfe, 26, will be traveling to the Tokyo Games as an alternate, and in doing so, will become the first transgender Olympian on Team USA.
Piers Morgan's G7 memo to Joe: Cut the woke cr*p, bedazzle Boris in Latin, stay out of Ireland, stick it to China on covid and grovel to the Queen for calling Meghan courageous (but steer clear of vegan Cornish pasties at all costs)
09/06/21 15:50President Joe Biden flies into the UK today for his first trip abroad since winning the White House, and the most significant test so far of his fledgling presidency.
Female Belgian weightlifter says allowing New Zealand transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard to compete in the women's event at the Tokyo Olympics is 'a bad joke'
31/05/21 08:25Anna Vanbellinghen, who competes in the same +87kg division as Hubbard (pictured), says the principle of inclusion should not be 'at the expense of others'.
SARAH VINE: If you want to meet a real bigot, try talking to a liberal
08/05/21 22:47SARAH VINE:In recent years the face of bigotry has started to get a lot younger and, oddly, a lot more socially and politically liberal, including Remainers, cyclists and Corbynistas.
'It's another kick in the teeth for female athletes': Former British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies hits out at decision to allow transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to compete in Tokyo
08/05/21 21:30SHARRON DAVIES has hit out at the decision to allow transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to compete in the Olympics, describing it as 'another kick in the teeth for female athletes'.
The extraordinary story behind controversial transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard - as new Olympic rules clear her path to represent New Zealand at the Tokyo Games
08/05/21 07:01Kiwi weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is a polarising figure - hero to some and fraud to others. So who is the woman behind the headlines, the heavy weights and even heavier burden?
HOT OR NOT: Katie Taylor and Natasha Jonas showed a blend of technicality and drama... and good on Rory McIlroy for calling out the Super Golf League
07/05/21 21:33HOT OR NOT: It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's Riath Al-Samarrai reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week.
PLATELL'S PEOPLE: The Gates gazillions made Bill and Melinda's split MORE likely
07/05/21 21:07PLATELL'S PEOPLE: On New Year's Day last year, Melinda Gates told her Instagram followers that her heart was full as she 'celebrated' her long marriage to Bill.
Fury over decision to let transsexual enter Tokyo Olympics: New Zealand's female weightlifters reveal they are 'told to be quiet' when they complain that a woman 'will lose out'
07/05/21 07:52Tracey Lambrechs, who competed for New Zealand in weightlifting, says she believes transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard competing in the Olympics would be unfair to other women.
First transgender athlete qualifies for the Olympics: New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, 43, will take part in Tokyo 2020
06/05/21 14:55The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) said the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) had revised its qualifying due to the impact of Covid-19 on competition events.
EXCLUSIVE: Australian Senator slams US President Joe Biden's move to let transgender women play female sport and warns it must not happen Down Under if we want safe and fair competition
05/03/21 21:36A Liberal senator has criticised US President Joe Biden for making it easier for transgender women to play female sport - and warned against a similar push in Australia.
Campaign to ban transgender women from rugby because they are 'stronger, faster and increase the risk of injuries' is 'transphobic' and must be stopped, says Labor politician
31/08/20 07:01Rugby Australia is facing growing calls to ban transgender women from the female game after World Rugby research found they increase the risk of injuries by at least 20 per cent.
EXCLUSIVE: Rugby Australia is urged to ban transgender women after new research found they are 'stronger, heavier and faster' and increase the risk of injuries by at least 20 per cent
16/08/20 05:33Under current World Rugby rules which echo Olympic guidelines, trans women can play in the women's game if they take medicine to lower their testosterone for at least 12 months.
Labour leadership hopeful Lisa Nandy refuses to say if she would let Usain Bolt identify as female and compete against women in explosive GMB row about trans rights with Piers Morgan
10/03/20 12:52Lisa Nandy and Piers Morgan engaged in an explosive row over transgender rights today as the Labour leadership hopeful was accused of failing to give 'straight answers'.
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