Trans People In Olympics. At the last summer olympics held in tokyo, new zealand weightlifter laurel hubbard made history as the first openly transgender athlete in olympic history. On january 25th, chris mosier became the first known openly transgender athlete to compete in an olympic trial as the gender with which they identify.

Politicians and opportunists quickly began suggesting that khelif was a transgender athlete and this was akin to a man beating up a woman. Laurel hubbard competed in the tokyo olympics, becoming the first openly transgender athlete to do so, and finished.