Transgender powerlifter easily defeats women as old as 58; USA Weightlifting defends 'inclusive' policy



Yet another male competitor has won a female powerlifting competition, with the event's governing body standing by its current policy.

A man by the name of Vicki Piper won the Masters National Weightlifting Championships in Reno, Nevada, in late March 2024. Piper competed in the 76-kilogram weight category for women 55 years old and over. Piper, 57, defeated 55-year-old women as well as a 58-year-old female en route to a crushing victory.

Results showed that in the snatch competition, he lifted over 123 pounds, compared to the second-place finisher who lifted just over 101 pounds. In the clean and jerk, 156.2 pounds was Piper's winning total against a second-place total of 140.8 pounds.

Video of Piper's victory started circulating online, as well as photos from the podium, which of course showed an obvious biological advantage.

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"Thank you, USA Weightlifting, for hosting such a well thought out and supportive event here in Reno, Nevada," Piper wrote on Instagram, according to Breitbart.

The competition's governing body, USA Weightlifting, released an official statement in which it stood by its policy, last updated in 2021.

The rules stated that men who believe they are women are required to have gone through hormone therapy for a minimum of two years to "minimize gender related competitive advantages."

If a man undergoes sex-change surgery and has been cleared to participate by a doctor, the man may also compete against women.

The rules also provided definitions of transgender and gender identity, referring of course to sex being "assigned at birth" and gender identity referring to one's "internal psychological identification," which includes male, female, "both," or "neither."

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The company said in its statement that it strongly believes in supporting a "diverse and inclusive weightlifting category" and seeks to maintain "competitive equity."

Organization officials also said that they welcome feedback but would not engage with nor tolerate "hate speech."

\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udea8\u203c\ufe0f Girls, step aside, now a man will show you how to lift a barbell correctly.\n\nVicki Piper, 57, who identifies as a woman, took first place in the women's 76-kilogram weight class during the 2024 Masters Nationals. Both of Piper's lifts were competition records.\n\nThe athlete\u2026
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Male powerlifters showcased their ability to beat women across the world in 2023, including one male in Western Canada beating his second-place opponent by 450 pounds.

Another male competitor bragged about "p**sing" next to women.

Actual female powerlifter April Hutchinson, who has become a vocal critic against men in her competitions, remarked on the latest fiasco.

"If we have to do cheek swabs at every competition, let's do that. But there's no reason why a man should be competing in women's sports," she told NewsMax.

Hutchinson was removed from a museum months earlier because she had spoken out on the topic.

"If we have to do cheek swabs and every competition, let's do that. But there's no reason why a man should be competing in women's sports."\n\n\u2014 April Hutchinson, powerlifter\n\n@Lea_Christina4 @EmmaRechenberg
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Museum removes female powerlifter from exhibit for criticizing middling males' participation in women's sports



Female competitive powerlifter April Hutchinson was briefly featured in a Canadian museum exhibit entitled, "Resilient London: Meet Your Neighbours." The point of the exhibit was to detail how various locals had surmounted obstacles and found joy in achievement.

Hutchinson was a natural choice for the exhibit. After all, she successfully overcame addiction, excelled as a female powerlifter, and refused to back down despite an onslaught of attacks from radical activists.

However, upon realizing that Hutchinson was critical of the invasion of women's sports by middling male athletes, Museum London in London, Ontario, wrote the female athlete out of its history.

Although upset by the removal of her feature and the museum's accompanying denunciation, Hutchinson told Reduxx she is not backing down in the fight over the integrity of her sport.

"I will not lie to myself," said Hutchinson. "I will not play charades and I will not give in to delusional thinking."

What's the background?

Blaze News previously reported that Hutchinson has been critical of transvestites leveraging their biological advantages to take trophies and award money away from real women.

One of the more egregious cases that prompted Hutchinson to speak out involved male competitor Anne Andres, whodestroyed all of his female competitors at the Canadian Powerlifting Union's 2023 Western Canadian Championship with a combined score of 1,317 pounds — 450 pounds more than the female runner-up.

Andres, who has only been identifying as a female powerlifter since 2020, has placed first in eight out of the 10 competitions he has participated in since January 2020.

Hutchinson called Andres' denigration of women and participation in women's powerlifting "disheartening." She noted in a Daily Mail op-ed that her "boyfriend could basically walk in tomorrow, identify as female, compete, and then the next day, go back to being a man again. No proof, no ID required, just basically going on how you feel that day or whatever gender you want to it."

Hutchinson figured her union might "com[e] to its senses"; however, the Canadian Powerlifting Union, acting on a complaint from Andres, recently dashed those hopes, seeking instead to shut her up.

In early October, Hutchinson appeared on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," telling the titular host the Canadian Powerlifting Union was threatening her with suspension for pointing out a transvestite was indeed a man.

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Weeks later, Hutchinson indicated on X that she received notice from the CPU indicating she faces a two-year ban for speaking out against "the unfairness of biological males being allowed to taunt female competitors & loot their winnings."

"Apparently, I have failed in my gender-role duties as 'supporting actress' in the horror show that is my sport right now," wrote Hutchinson. "Naturally, the CPU deemed MY written (private) complaint of the male bullying to be 'frivolous and vexatious.'"

Hutchinson has indicated she's appealing the suspension.

First canceled, then erased

Days after learning she was facing a multiyear ban from the CPU, Hutchinson received a letter from the executive director of the London Museum, Julie Bevan, indicating her feature was being removed from the months-long exhibit, reported Reduxx.

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The Nov. 10 letter, signed by the museum's executives, reportedly indicated the removal was prompted by Hutchinson's media appearances — where she spoke against transvestites competing in women's sports. Bevan's letter further accused Hutchinson of "denying" the existence of "transgender women" and issuing comments harmful to the "2SLGBTQI community."

The letter reportedly insinuated that Hutchinson had violated the Ontario Human Rights code, noting, "Misgendering someone intentionally is a form of discrimination."

Hutchinson told Canadian state media, "I'm highly disappointed and very hurt. My exhibit was me telling the whole world my personal struggle with alcoholism and how I beat that and I became a Team Canada powerlifter. … It had nothing to do at all with transgenders."

"The museum is basically telling women they don't care about us. Our safety or our sports. It's absolutely wrong," Hutchinson explained to Reduxx. "I am standing for truth and saying the things that 99% of society thinks. I will not lie to myself. I will not play charades and I will not give in to delusional thinking."

Stevie Bees, a female transvestite featured in the exhibit, celebrated the museum's decision on Meta, writing, "I am EXTREMELY proud to be on that wall and I also want everyone to know that Trans Women ARE Women! April Hutchinson SHOULD be deplatformed for spouting garbage like this."

Museum London's head of marketing, Linda O'Connor, told Canadian state media, "We have no further comment on this. We take seriously our responsibility to uphold our values, promote inclusion and ensure dignity for our team, our contributors, and our audiences."

The leftist efforts to cancel Hutchinson do not appear to have shaken her resolve.

"Women need and deserve their own sports. The female category has always been protected," she said. "Women are fighting back and we will send a strong message: Bodies play sports, not identities."

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'New Zealand's Strongest Man' enters women's powerlifting competition to protest its transgender policy, forcing organizers to change the rules overnight



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, showing what I think is the obvious absurdity of their argument," said the British rapper.

\u201cI keep hearing about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019...\n\nSo watch me DESTROY the British Women's deadlift record without trying.\n\nP.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight. Don't be a bigot. \ud83d\ude02\u201d
— ZUBY: (@ZUBY:) 1551178515

TheBlaze recently reported that Avi Silverberg, former head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting, temporarily identified as a female on March 25 and demolished the women's record set by a male transsexual, Ann Andres, at the the Heroes Classic Powerlifting Meet in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Silverberg exploited the same gender policy as Andres had, then tested the transsexual athlete's record with him watching. Not only did the male coach beat Andres' record, he cleared it by nearly 100 pounds. Andres had previously lifted 275 pounds. Silverberg casually pressed 370 pounds.

\u201cA male powerlifting coach self-identified as a woman and broke a women's benchpress record in protest of gender self-identification in sport.\n\nAvi Silverberg performed the defiant act while the current record holder, a transgender male, watched.\n\nREAD: https://t.co/MXiyiGMgWQ\u201d
— REDUXX (@REDUXX) 1680023763

The Independent Council on Women’s Sports told the feminist publication Reduxx, "What Avi so obviously points out is that policies allowing men access to women’s sports completely remove any integrity in women’s competitions."

Another Anglo nation, another lesson to be learned

Reduxx reported that Dale Shepherd has been lifting weights for over forty years. In his time competing against other men, he claimed roughly two dozen national records and held the "All Time Deadlift World Record" for nearly six years. In 2010, he won the title of "New Zealand's Strongest Man" and claimed four top spots at the 2022 Nationals.

Shepherd endeavored to mount a protest, entering to participate in the women's category for the June Global Powerlifting New Zealand Day of the Deadlifts competition.

"I identify as a woman for this contest," Shepherd declared on his entry form.

He told Reduxx, "It is important to me that both transgender athletes and biological women both have the ability to compete in sports.

"However, regardless of hormone treatment such as giving a biological male estrogen – the hormone primarily responsible for female characteristics – it does not totally negate all the years that male has had with higher testosterone levels resulting in greater bone density, tendon and muscle strength. As such biological women are at a significant disadvantage."

"To maintain equity and preserve women’s sports, transgenders and biological women must have their own separate classes or eventually all women’s sports will be overtaken by biological men who now identify as a woman," Shepherd added.

According to Reduxx, the women's rights group Save Women's Sports Australasia hyped Shepherd's protests with an April 14 tweet.

\u201cDale weighs 118kg and has held the title of New Zealand\u2019s strongest man for six years. Thanks to the @nzlabour govt, #SexSelfID comes into force in NZ on 15 June when Dale will be self-identifying as a woman in time for the Global Powerlifting Committee (GPC) 1/2\u201d
— Save Women\u2019s Sports Australasia (@Save Women\u2019s Sports Australasia) 1681439275

Exposing folly and forcing a change

After this tweet made its rounds, the Global Powerlifting Committee New Zealand reportedly grew wise to the scheme and launched a desperate campaign to block Shepherd's entry.
The GPCNZ updated its website and rules just after he submitted his application, but maintained that "it is necessary to ensure that transgendered athletes are not excluded from the opportunity to participate in sporting competition, and are celebrated in the spirit of competitiveness and inclusiveness."

Whereas the GPCNZ's rules archived before the last-minute changes deferred greatly to entrants' gender self-identification, the new rules specified that male transsexuals must have "declared that her gender identity is female. The declaration cannot be changed, for sporting purposes, for a minimum of four years."

Additionally, per the new rules, male transsexuals "must have undergone hormone treatment (if medically indicated) for at least 12 months prior to her first competition."

The rules specify further that "transgendered people who are not taking hormones ... will go under complete confidential review."

Stuff reported that GPCNZ spokesman and trustee Greg Turrell had spoken with Shepherd about his entry.

"I've clarified the rules with Dale. He is ineligible," said Turrell. "[But] there is provision for transgender women to compete in powerlifting as a whole."

While the GPCNZ's expedited adoption of the new criteria may make it harder for men to quickly make the crossover into women's powerlifting, those dead set on deadlifting among women may only need to avoid telegraphing their intentions as Shepherd had.

Turrell nevertheless admitted, "We need to balance the desire to be inclusive but protect the integrity of women's powerlifting."

Here is Shepherd crushing a 310 kg squat, a 207.5 kg bench press, and a 352.5 kg deadlift in 2017:

Dale Shepherd - NZs Heaviest Raw Deadlift & M2 IPL World Record U110kg Bench & Deadlift youtu.be

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Male powerlifting coach crushes female bench record previously set by male transsexual — just to prove a point



Ann Andres is a biological male who claims to be a woman. He has placed first in multiple women's weightlifting competitions in Canada and holds the record for women's bench in the province of Alberta. He has gone so far in recent months as to ridicule the real women who compete against him.

Team Canada's male powerlifting coach Avi Silverberg has evidently had enough of noncompetitive men migrating to women's sports and gender self-identification policies in powerlifting. Over the weekend, he temporarily identified as a transgender and demolished Andres' record.

What's the background?

Andres is technically Alberta's powerlift record holder for bench and deadlifts in the women's category.

According to Open Powerlifting, Andres' personal bests are 440.9 pounds for squat; 275.5 pounds for bench; and 545.6 pounds for deadlift.

The transsexual athlete has won eight out of the nine female competitions he has entered since 2019.

The Independent Council on Women’s Sports, an advocacy group seeking to protect women's sports from male infiltrators, indicated that outrage mounted after Andres added insult to injury, having denigrated his competitors and claiming women's bench is "so bad."

Andres said in a video posted to Instagram, "Why is women’s bench so bad? I mean, not compared to me, we all know that I’m a tranny freak so that doesn’t count. And no, we’re not talking about Mackenzie Lee, she’s got little T-rex arms and she’s like 400 pounds of chest muscle apparently."

"Standard bench in powerlifting competition for women, I literally don’t know why it’s so bad," Andres reiterated. "My son, he weighs 45 pounds. His max bench is like 33, I’m legit seeing some women in competition who are doing something like 50 pounds, and I just don’t understand it."

\u201c\ud83c\udfcb\ufe0fTrans identifying male, Anne Andres is Alberta Canada's women's powerlifting record holder in bench\n\ud83d\udea8competes next month in women's category at the 2023 CPU National Championships\n\n\ud83d\udea9Recognizes no understanding of upper body strength differences btw males & females\n\ud83e\uddf5\u201d
— ICONS Women (@ICONS Women) 1672814490

Beaten at his own game

Avi Silverberg serves as head coach for Team Canada Powerlifting, beginning in 2012. He has since coached over 4,500 attempts in international competitions.

On March 25, Silverberg decided to temporarily identify as a woman — not to remedy possible dysphoria but as a means of protest. The newly minted transgender then attended the Heroes Classic Powerlifting Meet in Lethbridge, Alberta.

The meet reportedly adhered to the Canadian Powerlifting Union's gender self-identification policy, announced earlier this year.

The policy states, "Individuals participating in development and recreational sport ... 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. Nor should there be any requirement for hormonal therapy or surgery."

"Hormone therapy should not be required for an individual to participate in high-performance sport," added the document. "Individuals should not be required to disclose their trans identity or history to the sport organization in order to participate in high-performance sport."

Silverberg exploited this gender policy as Andres had, then tested the transsexual athlete's record with him watching.

Not only did the male coach beat Andres' record, he cleared it by nearly 100 pounds. Andres had previously lifted 275 pounds. Silverberg casually pressed 370 pounds.

The Independent Council on Women’s Sports noted on Twitter that "Avi Silverberg just broke the Alberta WOMEN's bench press record in the 84+ kg category at the 'Heroes Classic.'"

ICONS told the feminist publication Reduxx, "What Avi so obviously points out is that policies allowing men access to women’s sports completely remove any integrity in women’s competitions."

"It doesn’t matter how Avi expresses himself or perceives himself. He clearly does not belong in women’s sport, and neither does any other male regardless of their motivation for wanting to participate," added the women's advocacy group.

\u201cA male powerlifting coach self-identified as a woman and broke a women's benchpress record in protest of gender self-identification in sport.\n\nAvi Silverberg performed the defiant act while the current record holder, a transgender male, watched.\n\nREAD: https://t.co/MXiyiGMgWQ\u201d
— REDUXX (@REDUXX) 1680023763

Canadian weightlifter and YouTuber Greg Doucette lauded Silverberg's weighty protest, stating, "How long before the powers that be suddenly wake up and smell the coffee and understand that if you're born a female, you're not going to be as powerful, as strong, as tall, as big ... as if you were born a male."

"To me, the answer is simple: We add a separate category, a new category, the trans category," said Doucette.

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