Transgender powerlifter stripped of world records after drug tester rules she is ‘actually male’
US transgender powerlifter Mary Gregory was stripped of records she set last month at a national competition after a doping test revealed that the athlete “was actually a male in the process of becoming a transgender female.”
Gregory broke four women's world records during the competition in the squat, bench press and deadlift disciplines as well as total record in her weight class.
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Following the event, Gregory thanked the US Powerlifting Federation for allowing her to take part in the competition as a female lifter.
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However, the federation didn’t share enthusiasm over Gregory’s record-breaking performance after the obligatory doping control proved that the athlete should have performed in men’s category.
“The lifter exceeded the current female world records in this lifter’s age and weight category. This automatically calls for drug testing protocol which takes place at the end of every event. The drug testing coordinator for this event performed the drug test at which time it was revealed that this female lifter was actually a male in the process of becoming a transgender female,” the federation said in a statement.
“Our rules, and the basis of separating genders for competition, are based on physiological classification rather than identification. On the basis of all information presented to the Board of Directors for this particular case, the conclusion made, is that the correct physiological classification is male.”
The US powerlifting governing body annulled Gregory’s records admitting that the athlete should not have competed against women.
“Since the lifter’s gender classification for the purpose of our rules is not consistent with female, no female records will be broken by these lifts,” the statement reads.
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Original: https://www.rt.com/sport/459328-us-powerlifting-transgender-records/
So it begins. Folks intent on gaining illicit power often appear to succeed with sudden assaults, but are revealed afterwards to have done things that divest them of any goodwill they had generated via subterfuge previously, and thereby create a backlash against their devious and destructive acts. No community was more responsible for promotion of transgender acceptance than feminist women, who are strongly represented in sport. Now the outrage felt by actual women who see the demonstrable reality of sexual dimorphism in our species will be expressed ever more by denying surgically altered men inclusion in women's sport.
Either they take back their sports, or they relegate themselves to being second class competitors. The implications of that reassertion of actual physical differences are going to spill over to all the outrageous impositions in classrooms, bathrooms, and every supposed victory for surgically altered men being considered identical to actual women will be reconsidered by folks victimized thusly. This is the first major reset, but it will not be the last.
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