‘This Is Insane’: Piers Morgan Hits out at Transgender Athlete Laurel Hubbard

One of Britain’s highest-profile media figures has taken aim at Kiwi transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard’s potential participation at the Tokyo Olympics.

Hubbard kept her hopes of competing at Tokyo alive last month when she won the women’s super-heavyweight weightlifting contest at the Roma World Cup, the first Olympic qualifying event of the year.

Controversial media personality Piers Morgan, who has over seven million followers on Twitter, took issue with Hubbard’s potential participation in Japan.

“This is insane. Women’s rights to basic fairness & equality are getting destroyed at the altar of political correctness,” Morgan posted on Twitter.

“Trans women born with biological male bodies have a massive physical advantage against women born with female bodies in any sport where power & strength are significant factors. This shouldn’t be a contentious claim, it’s just a rather obvious fact.

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