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What are the top ’trans cases’ in sports? At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Italian boxer Angela Carini quit seconds into her match after being battered by Algeria’s Imane Khelif, who was previously disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for failing a gender eligibility test. What were some other ‘trans’ rows in the world of sports? Pennsylvania trans swimmer Lia Thomas, who competed on the men’s team until 2019, won the 500-yard freestyle at the 2022 NCAA Championships. Soon after, World Aquatics restricted transgender athletes in elite women’s competitions, and Thomas lost her case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, born male, was the first trans woman to compete at the Olympics. She came out as transgender in 2013 and qualified for Tokyo 2020 thanks to rule changes. Despite meeting testosterone level criteria, critics argued her participation was unfair to female-born athletes. South African runner Caster Semenya, a two-time Olym... Source: Sputnik International
