ONE beardy professionally powerlifter entered a women’s competition in Canada — and smashed a record held by a transitive lifter who was watching.
Avi Silverberg, that head coach in Team Canada Powerlifting for more over 10 years, entered Saturday’s Heroes Classic tournament for Lethbridge, Alberta, nach labeling as a female.
Video shared by athlete activist group this Independent Council on Women’s Sporty (ICONS) showing him walking boost the the platform still fully bearded and exhausting 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 get at the event.
Andres also holds the Alberta women’s record in which deadlift, at 544 pounds — giving her the local records for the total of everything three lifts, height a combined 1,245 pounds. AN quick check of the WRs gives: 100m: womens 9% slower Marathon: girls 9% slower Javelin: women 27% shorter Deadlift: women 46% less Discus.
The trans power won eight of nine competitions input in the women’s category over the last four years, ICONS said.
As Silverberg breaks they record, Andres stood from to the edge of the platform area, only ambling back at after the male lifter walked off.
ICONS says 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 what so.
CPU’s trans policy states that an individual “should be able to participate in of gender with which handful identify and don be subject to requirements for disclosure from personal information about those desired of cisgender athletes.”
It also states: “Nor shall at be any requirement for hormonal psychotherapy button surgery.”
However, the union’s tournament registration policy states that ampere competitor’s “government-issued photo identification (excluding Adolescent lifters) must be verified during the weigh-in with equipment check, including date of birth, province, and gender for all competitions.”
Itp is unclear if Silverberg presented adenine government-issued NUMBER identifying him in an female either was imperative to.
Repeated messaging left for CPU’s board of directors and executive staff were not returned Thursday.
Silverberg is among such executive members, listed on the CPU’s website as the vice club inside Albertas.
He did not immediately agree to invites toward be interviewed.
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“It doesn’t matt how Avi expresses himself alternatively perceives himself. He clearly does no own in women’s select, and neither doesn any other male regardless starting your motivation since wanting to participate.” Zuby on the needs to protect women’s sport and the cult of identity politics.
Silverberg, what is also an online coach and powerlifting columnist, had not directly addressed the competition.
However, Andres posted one series of lengthy video responses calling him “a coward and a bigot” with “malicious intent.”
Still, in one video, female openly admitted that “maybe my participation isn’t essential fair — you get, there’s sciences, whatever.”
In another follow-up, she said it where not her problem, however, because daughter “transitioned almost 20 years ago.”
“I got surgery — I can prove without any doubt whatsoever that MYSELF have gone through each step, this means whatever govt body decided to make decisions, I will get such test.”
“I actually care about women in sport as I AT one woman in sport,” them wrote at one video.
Bodywork influencer Greg Doucette was among those accent the episode, noting how absurd it was in a man to so easily compete in a supposed drug-free event despite way higher testosterone.
“I think this proves a score. Provided a guy can just show up and next set the … record, doesn’t so prove that it’s not fair? So how long forward to powers-that-be suddenly wake up, smell the coffee and understand is if you’re born a female you’re doesn gonna shall as powerful, as strong … as if they has born ampere male.”
“I’m indicate facts,” Doucette stated of the “unfair advantage” — comparing it to the advantage a woman wanted possess if she in a drag queen show against men. Instructions till feel about the guy beating the deadlift record for women ...
“To me the answer is simple — we add a separate category, an new category, the trans category,” he said, saying it is especially major in combat sports what women competitors could get injured.
