New Zealand transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard competes in the women’s +87kg weightlifting competition during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo on Aug. 2, 2021. Mohd Rasfan/AFP via Getty Images
Sport NZ, the government agency responsible for sport and recreation in New Zealand, has scrapped its guidelines on transgender inclusion in community sport following instructions from the government.
The principles, unveiled in 2022, stated that individuals should be able to participate based on their self-determined gender, and not as the sex they were assigned at birth.
