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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they can use the they/them pronouns legitimately
I'm waiting for trannies to take over the WNBA and make it exciting and entertaining.
There. It was right there. About a second ago!
Hahahahahaha
Why does the Communist Party (formally Democrat Party) hate women?
LOL!
NO. It just means that they’ve found the class/venue in which they can appear to excel.
Next: Miss Canada Beauty Context.
Put on that bikini my man!
(But I wont look!)
Women’s sports is dead—Fight back! Go home, marry and have a mess of kids—Liberals hate that. Kids are better than dusty trophies in a case—they love you and if raised right they will take care of you when you get old. One day things will change and your daughters might have the chance you were cheated out of.
Thank you, Avi, for making this point.
if men really want to drive a steak through the heart of this nonsense, they need to start competing in competitions that PAY MONEY!!! start taking all the prize money away from real women, and then you will see wailing and gnashing of teeth!
If I want to watch female athletic competition, I go to YouTube and search “restaurant fights”.
Pointing out their hypocrisy to hypocrites achieves nothing. You cannot shame the shameless.
But what you can do is to snub the organizations that encourage hypocrisy. For a good example, school swimming. If parents and girls want to compete in swimming, they should turn down academic competition and hold their own, excluding males.
There are lots of competition size pools, and parents could easily and cheaply buy up a bunch of ribbons and other awards, use regulation stop watches, etc. And ironically, since the local media doesn’t usually follow girls swimming, they could buy a full page “advertisement” of their girls accomplishments.
And absolutely nothing for the school or the trans boys, denying them the attention they whorishly crave.
There are lots of great females who can complete with males in sports; for instance: firearms shooting, or horsemanship.
But expecting them to compete when the sport involves weight and muscular strength is nuts. It’s just a way for failed, biologically male athletes to make themselves look relatively accomplished.
Men are great! First we dominated male sports and now we dominate female sports!
What you posted is a great idea. Should be done in communities across the country.
But first, humiliate the leftists. Make them live up to their own fake standards. Alinsky 101.
Great way to end women history month!
“He did it to make a point”
He wanted his own special Asterisk
I think he wanted to show how stupid it was. Come in as a male and compete as a female and then leave as a male.
The Canadian tennis Open should be next. Every marquee sports event should have a skilled male “identifying” as female so this stuff ends.
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