4 May 2023 3:00 am
Is the entire world going insane or just Western countries?
Canadian Powerlifting Group Reaffirms Policy Allowing Men to Compete as Women (msn.com)
The Canadian powerlifting organization is refusing to drop its existing transgender-inclusion policy after multiple female athletes railed against the unfair competition they faced from biological men in their division.After a five-month review triggered by complaints from female lifters, the Canadian Powerlifting Union decided that the “current CPU Transgender Policy will be retained,."
The current policy, which allows men to simply identify as women to compete in the female category without hormone-level monitoring, “is in line with other Canadian Sports and Canadian Human Rights legislation,” the governing body stated.
In March, male Canadian powerlifting coach Avi Silverberg broke the Alberta women’s bench-press record to make a point about the lunacy of the CPU’s extremely lenient trans-inclusion policy. Silverberg, who does not identify as transgender, defeated Andres and others in the 84+ kg female category at the CPU’s “Heroes Classic.”
Hutchinson wrote on Twitter in response to the CPU’s doubling down on its policy: “A very sad day for women in sports. My federation- The Canadian Powerlifting Union has decided NOT to change policy and still allow biological males to compete in our sport.”