Posted on 04/22/2023 6:25:43 AM PDT by Twotone
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 that with his controversial application, he may have forced a shift in the right direction without having to break a sweat. A weighty concern
Some middling male athletes have transitioned over to women's sports in recent years, ostensibly in hopes of leveraging their sex-specific biological advantages to displace female athletes, thereby securing prize money, sponsorships, and other spoils.
Perceiving this trend to be unfair and unsportsmanlike, a number of men in the world of weightlifting have taken action.
Dale Shepherd, 52, is one of a handful of men to protest gender identification policies and make a mockery of the trend of noncompetitive men seeking to try their odds against women.
The British rapper Nzube Olisaebuka Udezue, whose stage name is Zuby, did so in 2019.
The Times reported that Zuby, an Oxford graduate, beat the British women's deadlift record as well as the bench lift record, then joked that the stunt was "strong, stunning and brave."
Zuby said his protest "struck a nerve," demonstrating "the fallacies of the arguments on the other side."
"I have seen people saying there is no inherent biological strength difference between men and women. I posted it being a bit tongue-in-cheek..." said the British rapper.
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Good effort. But it is women who need to take back and preserve their sport(s).
Good to see that even in New Zealand, sensible folks don’t want biological men competing against biological women in sports and are willing to take measures to prove how unequal it is.
Reality has a way of imposing its own rules...
They should create a special Trans Sports League. All men who think they are women should compete against other men who think they are women and girls who think they are boys will compete against other girls who think they are boys.
If they did that you can bet that half the “trans” would disappear over night.
If women want to see sudden changes that protect their sport all they have to do is walk away.
We owe the East Germans an apology.
BY making a mockery of their policies, they are forced to change them. But they will fight, changing the restrictions on men competing in women’s sports by saying that the “trans women” must be on testosterone blockers for a time.
Company rules - the limit is 50 pounds.
If women don’t care, I could GAS.
I’ll focus on the grooming in schools.
Good for him. We need more of this. Punch back twice as hard.
Well played!
As pointed out on a local Alabama talk radio show a couple of days ago, it is very telling that there is NO movement of women transgendered to men signing up to compete against men in sports competitions. . . simply because there are no biological advantages for them to have.
The ONLY reasons this phenomenon has legs are that Commie Rat politicians are pushing the narrative, and the evil media players are complicit in peddling their lie.
I am sick to death of this kind of absurd BS. I hope there are a lot of others in the foxhole with me.
It was set by an *East* German.
No way of telling how much testosterone he was given in the weeks/months/years before his throw.
The fallacy is self-evident to all but the mentally ill.
The Leftist Degenerate Deviants will try to disable this action with the usual tricky rules and regulations designed to do the opposite of of their descriptive titles.
I suspect this is going to be fun to watch.
Yep, women should be fighting this themselves by refusing to participate
This thread is not complete without a picture of him in drag. 😆😂
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