Posted on 03/31/2023 1:13:26 PM PDT by Twotone
A bearded pro powerlifter entered a women’s competition in Canada — and smashed a record held by a trans lifter who was watching.
Avi Silverberg, the head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting for more than 10 years, entered Saturday’s Heroes Classic tournament in Lethbridge, Alberta, after identifying as a female.
Video shared by athlete activist group the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) shows him walking up to the platform still fully bearded and wearing a regular men’s singlet.
He then casually bench-pressed nearly 370 pounds — beating the current Alberta women’s record by almost 100 pounds.
That record — 275 pounds — was held by trans athlete Anne Andres, who was seen watching Silverberg while volunteering at the event.
Andres also holds the Alberta women’s record for the deadlift, at 544 pounds — giving her the local record for the total of all three lifts, lifting a combined 1,245 pounds.
The trans lifter won eight of nine competitions entered in the women’s category over the last four years, ICONS said.
As Silverberg broke her record, Andres stood off to the edge of the platform area, only strolling back on after the male lifter walked off.
ICONS said Silverberg “mocked the discriminatory [Canadian Powerlifting Union] policy” that allows competitors to register for events under their “gender identity and expression, rather than their sex or gender,” vowing “no consequences” for doing so.
CPU’s trans policy states that an individual “should be able to participate in the gender with which they identify and not be subject to requirements for disclosure of personal information beyond those required of cisgender athletes.”
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He did it to make a point.
Heather Swanson
Funny. Women’s sports are really funny now.
About time somebody did this
I actually lol’d when I saw this earlier
How dare they misgender that brave woman!
Women’s sports? What’s that?
Caitlin Jenner is turning in her bed...
Good for him. Rub their noses in their absurdity.
I wonder how the real women felt about it. Maybe that’s what it takes to keep their sports for them.
All men should come out as she/female now, millions of us.
The ‘prevailing winds’ suggest that there’s no such thing anymore.
they always were ...
“He did it to make a point.”
Yep. Hope we see a lot more of this by other athletes.
How dare they misgender her! She was very clear that she identified as a woman when she entered the competition.
Ask him when his last period was.
Wonder who the first person to hold both Men’s and Women’s Power Lifting record at same time will be?
Becoming a woman seems to unlock a person’s true potential.
That will be An Historic Event.
Joe Biden can have them to the White House. More History being made. What exciting times we live in.
The only better troll-action would have been if his testicles slipped out of his spandex leotard, for full public view on TV, like that Bulgarian guy in the Olympics a couple decades ago....
Males in women’s sports are a bunch of crap.
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