Another male in female sport - today, it’s powerlifting’s turn

[JaneorEleven]

I didn’t see a thread on this, but apologies if there is one already. Today in the New York Post, I saw an article about Avi Silverberg, a TransWoman. It shares how Avi broke the Canadian lifting record previously held by another TransWoman Anne Andres. We are seriously being trolled at this point.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/30/male-powerlifter-enters-womens-event-breaks-record/

He’s from the group of Transactivists who stormed the Kentucky State Capitol building yesterday, btw!

https://www.wkyt.com/2023/03/30/protesters-escorted-house-chamber-controversial-anti-trans-bill-becomes-law/?outputType=amp

Surely he needs a touch of pink in that beard to be a proper woman.
or nail polish

Not really a surprise for a religion that lets you self-ID as half goat 😉

Just fell down a hellhole, the Satanic Temple are doing good work on abortion rights and against corporal punishment. They support bodily autonomy and LGBT. More than that I don't know. Satan, might be okay?

That bloke looks a right pillock. Demon from Wish.

A beautiful woman like Avi can be as gender non conforming as she wants! No need for pink nails or beard shaving, she’s valid, Canada says so! 🇨🇦

Avi Silverberg is my absolute hero. Can't stop thinking about it today. World is insane, just so completely topsy turvy, and he showed it. Show don't tell.

https://fitnessvolt.com/male-powerlifter-avi-silverberg-new-womens-bench-press-record/

Why do people post and respond without even reading what they are posting or responding to?

If your beliefs and opinions are based solely on headlines - they are pretty uninformed.

Thank goodness for some pp giving context for this. I'm always a bit sceptical of "he did that to show the lunacy of trans rights". Looks like it may actually be true in this case.

And what's amazing, for an ethos that has such a stranglehold on the West, particularly amongst the so-called intelligentsia, it's so easily shown to be bogus and full of shit, by the simplest of actions.
That's why I believe Gen Alpha will en masse reject this false worldview, as they see so clearly it's fakeness.

His CV is evidence of his motivation.

Dude gives a shit about sports science and fairness. He’s a well respected coach who is obviously extremely familiar with the records for both male and female athletes and the difference in male and female physiology.

He’s the AntiLaurelHubbard!

https://barbend.com/author/avi-silverberg/

(yes, yes, I know powerlifting and weightlifting aren’t the same sport but if Laurel Hubbard can slip on pair of pink trainers and represent NZ at the Olympics, the sky’s the limit for Avi, who was more accomplished in a male category than Laurel ever was!)

(and I also know powerlifting is not an Olympic sport!)

WHat's the Jamaican guy thing? I missed it

Brilliant sooner or later the tide will turn. And then they will have to strip out the record holders of the records

Here's a video from the Quartering which gives a lot more context.
The previous womens record holder is MtF and their record got completely demolished by the bloke in the story. The MtF in the video above goes on to complain about how unfair it was for their women's record to be destroyed by the man with no sense of "hang on maybe that's what it feels like for the women I rob of places in the competitions".
There's literally a male complaining that a stronger male has come along to the women's competition, and how unfair it is.
This video starts with the MtF complaining.
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He's a powerlifting coach who did it to protest Canada's self ID laws, and how ridiculous it is.

Honor Oak protest against Drag Queen event.

Chap dancing to disco tunes in front of a sign saying ‘Groom Dogs not Kids’ is called a Nazi by a white female Queer Theory activist.

’I’m not a Nazi, I’m a black Jamaican’

They both have loudhailers, he sings ‘I’m not Nazi’ through his, she says he is the ‘most boring of all the boring people there’ (this is quite obviously a lie as he is very entertaining).
She gets her crowd chanting ‘fuck off’ at him.

He drowns them out with his own loudhailer shouting ‘Soyboy’ ‘Guardian reader’, ‘teacher’, ‘social worker’ ‘Labour voter’ and ‘racist’.

She calls him a ‘fucking rapist’.

https://twitter.com/markmaycot/status/1639928295159394304

The sound isn’t great and I’m not sure if she mishears ‘racist’ or if he says rapist first as part of his ‘Guardian reader, Soyboy’ list before she emphatically bellows it back at him.

We don’t know anything about him except he looks a LOT more fun to kick about with than the Queer Theory lot.

And it’s yet another incident of the Be Kind Equity & Diversity Love Brigade showing how intolerant they are towards anyone who disagrees with them, including people from minority populations who they pretend to give advocate for.

The press I've read around this says that he 'unofficially' beat the previous record with no explanation given. Anyone have a link that explains this please?

I don’t have a link but I believe he refused the winners spot & claim a record.

Just competed in the female section to make a point (Canadian law!) but didn’t want to take anything away from the actual female winner on the day.

The previous female record set by a male surely now needs to be struck from the books?

There's more context and answers in that video I linked above, as well as reactions from the previous male record holder.

Here you go. There's speculation that the woman with the megaphone is the fascist baby person.

https://twitter.com/markmaycot/status/1639928295159394304?s=20

Thank you. Glad to hear it was his choice

The sour grapes from the previous record holder !
Really makes my day , have a taste of your own medicine! 🤣

The sour grapes from the previous record holder !

Some of them do seem to think that only they are special and allowed to break the rules, but other people should know their place.

It reminds me of the recent MN thread about a transwoman freely going into a women's toilet and being shocked and offended to find another transwoman in there! He was quite open about it that the only point of using it was to do so alongside natal women and presumably get off on their resulting awkwardness and fear.

hard to understand why the previous record holder thinks this is unfair...

Everything is unfair in TransWorld. I'm surprised the TW didn't claim he was going to commit suicide as a result.

hard to understand why the previous record holder thinks this is unfair...

It's almost as if the goal is centring oneself and seeking maximum attention, rather than simply being allowed to live quietly as their authentic self....