https://redstate.com/benkew/2023/03/30/male-powerlifter-enters-female-event-breaks-record-to-protest-men-in-womens-sports-n724030
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.
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.”
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