Kristen Worley, a Canadian transgender cyclist, who won her case in the Human Rights Tribunal in Canada, which challenged the gender rules of sport as determined by the IOC, said she could tell Laurel’s body was going into androgen deprivation.

“I expressed weeks ago to international colleagues and officials this very concern," she said.

“I knew by looking at her body; she was at the 4-5 year limit in terms of transition and key ‘body types’ were showing due to years of ‘complete deprivation of the ‘XY’ female physiology’ which leads too [sic] protein cell synthesis ceasing," Worley said.

In layman’s terms this means Hubbard’s body was not able to recover properly from training sessions and her body had lost the ability to lift such heavy weights due to androgen (testosterone) deprivation.

Worley also mentioned Hubbard wouldn’t even be aware her body was in its current state of testosterone deprivation and hence her going for it on the day, which caused her to completely rupture her ligament in her elbow.

Worley, who had been through the same process in regards to her own body issues as an XY female (transgender woman) which she documented, now has a reasonably healthy body due to medical intervention and testosterone supplements, which took her out of a post-menopausal state.

I have similar issues at present and have investigated with Worley’s help and with my blood results now known, my own body at 0.4 nanomols of testosterone is in a post-menopausal androgen deficient state, so any advantage we may have a year or two after transition is quickly eroded and the longer we are post-transition and gender reassignment surgery, the lesser our testosterone levels will be.

Worley mentioned our transgender (XY female) levels - are well below the 10 nanomols the IOC wants trans women to be under, which in itself is lower than the level an XX female has and a sportswoman has even higher levels due to natural androgen gains from training.

Hubbard is now retired as an international athlete but with this information entering the mainstream, hopefully, transgender athletes will start receiving a fair go from all concerned.

That will be Hubbard’s ultimate legacy as a transgender sporting trailblazer, as her failed bid has brought to light an issue which needs to be addressed.