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A male powerlifter who identifies as a woman just set a new world record—in women's powerlifting.In the Canadian Powerlifting Union's (CPU) championships from Aug. 10 to Aug. 17, Anne Andres lifted 597.5 kilograms or 1317 pounds, according to advanced results.This weight was at least 440 pounds more than the top-performing woman, SuJan Gill, lifted.Anne Andres, a male powerlifter who identifies as a woman. (Instagram/Screenshot via the Epoch Times)Mr. Andres, a 40-year-old, gender transitioned at 20 years old, after going through male puberty, according to an Instagram post."[I] didn't touch a barbell in my entire life until seven years ago," he...

A male powerlifter who identifies as a “woman” set a women’s national record at a championship in Brandon, Manitoba, yesterday. Anne Andres, 40, currently holds multiple records in the female division, including women’s deadlift and bench press, and has placed first in nine out of the eleven competitions he has participated in over the past four years. Andres appeared at the Canadian Powerlifting Union’s 2023 Western Canadian Championship yesterday, which was held at Brandon University’s Healthy Living Centre. Andres participated in the Female Masters Unequipped category, and beat out Michelle Kymanick and SuJan Gil for the first place award. According...

A male weightlifter once dubbed "New Zealand's Strongest Man" applied last week to compete in a women's powerlifting competition. His intention was not to defeat women in the sport, but rather to discredit the notion that biological men don't have a physiological advantage over their female peers — an advantage which male transsexuals appear keen to simultaneously exploit and deny. Global Powerlifting Committee New Zealand has since denied Dale Shepherd's application, adopting new rules over the weekend that will preclude him from taking the stage to make his point. While Shepherd suggests the new rules are similarly "deficient," it appears...

MINNEAPOLIS — A journey that began four years ago has now come to an end for powerlifter JayCee Cooper after a judge ruled that USA Powerlifting indeed discriminated against Cooper, who is transgender, when she was banned from competing in women's competitions. "I feel mostly relief, I think we needed a win here and it feels good to get that," Cooper said. For Cooper, the sport she loves so much came with thorns. "I never even got a chance you know?" she said in a video produced by Gender Justice in 2021. "No one should have to experience that kind...

A Minnesota state court ruled that USA Powerlifting must permit men to compete as women in its industry.USA Powerlifting loses court battle against transgender athlete, ruled guilty of discrimination. The sport must now allow men to compete against women. https://t.co/7O6s8FlpPX — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 5, 2023In 2019, powerlifter JayCee Cooper, a man who identifies as a woman, filed a complaint with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, stating that USA Powerlifting violated the state's Human Rights Act by prohibiting him and other athletes from competing in the female division.Cooper then filed a lawsuit against the organization in 2021."I...

Since I was a young man, I always loved to lift weights. I remember back in high school, when I was preparing to try out for the freshman football team, training with the other guys on an old Universal weight machine. But football wasn’t my game (at least tackle football–flag was a blast in grade school!) as a 115-pound guy can get his bell rung quite easily, as I soon found out. Basketball was more my game, and I logged likely thousands of hours playing at my school or local parks–often late into the evening–until my dad would come looking...

An American powerlifting organization is facing a discrimination complaint in Minnesota after it said that JayCee Cooper, who was born a biological man, could not compete in any women’s events. USA Powerlifting is preparing to defend its policy against any impending legal actions Cooper takes in order to keep it in place because they officials with the organization believe that it is important in maintaining federal protections for women, The Daily Caller reported. “At some point, we are going to have to defend the biology and stand on women being a protected class, and it might as well start in...

Earlier this month, we talked about the case of transgender powerlifter Mary Gregory. After clearing the field at a championship event and setting four world records in the process, the governing commission reviewed the results and stripped Gregory of his world records, citing the fact that he is biologically male. (Gregory has been taking hormone therapy to reduce his testosterone levels for roughly a year but has not had surgery yet. I reserve the right to stick with the correct pronoun for his gender until the surgery is complete.) The revocation of the titles caused quite the media stir,...

This is the latest in our apparently endless series of stories covering the destruction of competitive women’s sports by the introduction of “transgender women” into the events. This time we’re back to the sport of weightlifting. A transgender powerlifter named Mary Gregory recently “dominated” the field at a Powerlifting Federation competition last month, smashing four world records for that weight class in the process. This had the actual women competing in the event understandably upset and protests were lodged. But after an investigation was conducted, the federation chairman posted an announcement saying that the record lifts were being taken off...

JayCee Cooper won a state women’s title after being barred from competing as a woman at USA Powerlifting events. USA Powerlifting has banned all transgender women from competing as women, even as a trans powerlifter in Minnesota recently won a state championship with another association, setting a state record. JayCee Cooper, a trans woman, had applied last year to compete in a recent USA Powerlifting event in Minnesota. In December her application was denied. “Male-to-female transgenders are not allowed to compete as females in our static strength sports as it is a direct competitive advantage,” wrote USAPL Therapeutic Use Exemptions...

A huge weightlifter has been dubbed the Iranian Hulk after astounding social media with his sheer physical size. Sajad Gharibi, 24, from Iran, is said to weigh almost 24 and a half stone and almost all of it is muscle. The giant man with a fierce expression has a following of over 59,000 followers on Instagram where he posts about what he does best - weightlifting.

BAGHDAD -- When he belches around Baghdad's old quarter on his spotless Harley Davidson, Kadhem Sharif, a power-lifting champion sporting wraparound sunglasses, makes for an unlikely sight. And the 53-year-old is fully aware that his passion for one of the most recognizable symbols of the American way of life is not to everybody's liking in post-war Iraq. But his garage is a carbon copy of any Harley aficionado's den in the United States, complete with posters of naked "babes on bikes". And his collection of 40-plus motorbikes provides a condensed history of 100 years of national turmoil. "This Norton was...