FEMALE ATHLETES UNHAPPY ABOUT BEING BEATEN BY FORMERLY-MALE ATHLETE: Aussie not happy after transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard achieves New Zealand sporting first. “She is who she is. That’s the way the politics…and what the New Zealanders have decided. I can’t say much more than that. She is seen as female and that’s the way it is.” I have to say, Laurel doesn’t look very womanly in that picture. She looks more like a Larry.