Ari Silverberg is fed up. So he protested in the best way he knew how to do it.

No soup was thrown. Nobody was threatened. No shouting took place. Nobody was even rude. It didn’t take a riot.

He just proved the absurdity of the Left.

Here’s the background from Reduxx:

A male powerlifting coach self-identified into the women’s category and broke the Alberta women’s bench press record in an apparent effort to protest gender self-identification policies in sport.

Avi Silverberg, a powerlifting coach who has worked with Team Canada, self-identified as a woman last week to participate in the women’s category at the Heroes Classic Powerlifting Meet held in Lethbridge, Alberta. Silverberg was attempting to highlight the unfair advantage males have when competing in women’s athletics. In participating in the Saturday event, Silverberg unofficially broke the Alberta women’s bench press record for the 84+ kilograms category.

The Canadian Powerlifting Union (CPU) announced a gender self-identification policy earlier this year, explicitly allowing any males to participate in women’s competitions on the basis of “gender” alone.

In February, the CPU’s “Trans Inclusion Policy,” was released, containing an explicit statement that the CPU supported allowing transgender powerlifters to participate in the sex category of their choosing based on a guidance from the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES).

So the Canadian Powerlifting Union just opened up the women’s category to anybody at all. Want to be a woman for a day? Come compete!

This is what passes for “ethics” in sport these days.

A male powerlifting coach self-identified as a woman and broke a women's benchpress record in protest of gender self-identification in sport.

Avi Silverberg performed the defiant act while the current record holder, a transgender male, watched.

READ: https://t.co/MXiyiGMgWQ pic.twitter.com/7J1b4iHlFG

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) March 28, 2023

So now the record for powerlifting for females is held by a male, after a different male set the previous record.

Women need not apply to women’s sports any more.

Before we get all technical and start arguing about hormone levels and similar possible ways to deal with this problem, you have to acknowledge that the basic point being made by Silverberg is indisputable: if you switch from sex to “gender” as your standard for determining who can compete then you have switched from physical, biological standards to imaginary ones.

In today’s parlance “gender” can mean anything at all. That is what we are told. Again. And again. And again.

Gender has no reality. It is a charade. It is how one “feels.” A woman is a person who defines themself as a woman.

No standards can be put on that.

So if we start parsing things out based upon self-image, there is no real way to sneak biology back into the equation without coming to the conclusion that the original biological standard was the correct one. Some weird and unnecessary combinations of biology and self-image makes no sense at all. Why concoct a complicated and bizarre definition when you have one that actually fits a real category?

We had the standard correct all along: male, and female. If you want a 3rd biological category, have at all. Make up any number you like. We already use weight classes as well, so why not a new kind of category?

The official women’s bench press title holder in the 84+ kilograms category is Anne Andres, a trans-identified male. Andres was in the front row and witnessed Silverberg’s demonstration at the Heroes Classic Powerlifting Meet.

Andres is a biological male athlete who identifies as a “woman” and regularly participates in female weightlifting competitions. Andres has won eight out of nine competitions he has entered in the women’s category, and is listed as a female on the Open Powerlifting rankings site.

In February, just prior to the CPU’s announcement of a gender self-identification policy, Andres gained significant notoriety after sharing a video of himself appearing to mock female athletes, asking why female powerlifters were “so bad” at bench press.

Anne Andres (male who identifies and competes as a woman) doesn't understand why female powerlifters are so "bad" at bench press….well idk Anne, but maybe it's because you have 20 times more testosterone than them. Just a thought…. pic.twitter.com/klxd4WaoYc

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 17, 2023

Either the categories are based upon biology or they are not. Basing them on biology makes sense. Basing them on “self-identification” doesn’t.

“What Avi so obviously points out is that policies allowing men access to women’s sports completely remove any integrity in women’s competitions,” the organization said.

“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.”

It really is that simple. No number of “ethicists” twisting reality to match their fantasies can change that.

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