Kirsti Miller, Australian and World Champion athlete and a passionate voice for diversity and inclusion in sport, has just shared this RNZ audio documentary on her X feed, and it is well worth your time.

From RNZ's "The Detail" programme, recorded in May 2021 as Laurel Hubbard was on the verge of becoming the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympic Games, it captures a moment in history with real care and nuance. Kristen Worley, a transgender cyclist who fought the IOC for years, makes the central point clearly: the policies were the problem, not the people. Poorly designed, lacking proper science, and created without meaningful input from the athletes whose health they were supposed to protect.

Laurel deserved better. Every trans athlete deserves better. Four years on, we are still making that same argument.

You can listen to the full episode on RNZ here: