This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (12:58 - 12:58) Major Worldview Issues in Olympic Headlines: First Openly Transgender Athlete To Compete in Women’s Weightlifting in Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games—Creating a Crisis

• Olympics’ First Openly Transgender Woman Stokes Debate on Fairness by New York Times (Tariq Panja and Ken Belson)

PART II (22:49 - 22:49) The Collision of Reality Comes to the Olympics: The Destabilization of Morality, Sexuality and Gender as the LGBTQ Revolution Creates an ‘Existential Question About What It Means to Be Female’

• A transgender weightlifter's Olympic dream has sparked an existential debate about what it means to be female by CNN (Julia Hollingsworth)
• There may be more Olympians who identify as LGBTQ than ever before. But there are limits to inclusion by CNN (Scottie Andrew)

PART III (25:40 - 25:40) No More Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender Revolution Takes to the Skies as German Airline Adopts Gender Neutral Language to Subvert the ‘Gender Binary’

• Lufthansa will no longer address you as 'ladies and gentlemen' by DW (Ashutosh Pandey)