Posted on 04/06/2023 7:49:23 PM PDT by bitt
A Canadian male powerlifter participated in a women’s event and broke a record as a means of protesting against biological men competing in female sports.
Avi Silverberg, who has been the head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting for over a decade, identified as a female in order to compete at the Heroes Classic tournament in Lethbridge, Alberta. He broke a record that was held by a transgender lifter who was also in attendance.
The Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), an athlete activist group, shared a video of Silverberg at the competition, approaching the platform while wearing a regular men’s singlet and sporting a large beard.
Silverberg bench-pressed nearly 370 pounds with ease, defeating the current Alberta women’s record by a staggering 100 pounds. The previous record of 275 pounds was held by Anne Andres, a transgender athlete who was present at the event as a volunteer.
Andres also holds the Alberta women’s record for the deadlift, which stands at an impressive 544 pounds. This gives her the local record for the total of all three lifts, as she lifted a combined weight of 1,245 pounds. According to ICONS, Andres has competed in the women’s category in nine competitions over the last four years, winning all but once.
ICONS said that Silverberg “mocked the discriminatory [Canadian Powerlifting Union] policy” that allows athletes to compete based on their “gender identity and expression rather than their biological sex.”
Under current rules, the Canadian Powerlifting Union allows biological men to only need to “identify” as a female in order to compete. The policy states:
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
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Waiting for Drew Barrymore to kneel down to him. Now, if Bud makes a can with his face on it, I just might buy it!
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Gettin’ stupid wouldn’t you say?
Maybe we should define the genders in sports as: bofem (born female); bomale (born male); boiffy/borunk (born iffy, or born unknown).
And, bofeman (born female changed to man; bormanfem (born man changed to female)
No crossovers.
Good. More please.
I think I already saw this on South Park.
I’ll buy a 6 pack & we can all share🤣 I love this guy!
I think this is great.
How many times will men have to win women events before liberals realize the stupidity of their policies? Imagine that women are effectively locked out of women’s sports for a decade. How many liberals would admit they were wrong?
RE: Avi Silverberg, who has been the head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting for over a decade, identified as a female in order to compete at the Heroes Classic tournament in Lethbridge, Alberta.
So, what is Avi identifying as really?
From the looks of it, he PRETENDS to be transgender so that he can compete in Women’s weightlifting IN ORDER TO MAKE A POINT.
You funny!
It's been stupid for a while. This guy is using ridicule to highlight the stupidity of it all, rule #5 from Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. It's about time we started turning the left's tactics against them.
“ before liberals realize the stupidity of their policies?”
Leftists never admit failure.
Ever.
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Good for him
Mockery is appropriate
do it....all men should do this....I mean the real men....make a mockery of females sports more so then they are now with these bio trannies....
Sounds to me that the women competing need to spend more time in the gym and less time filing lawsuits claiming ‘micro-aggressions’.
Lol…. Very creative and funny! Thanks for posting and having pay Friday.
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