Wow you guys, Canada is like super progressive... I mean, look at this progress right here:
A beast of a woman, that Anne Andres!
556 pounds is nothing to her, and now it's the Canadian record for heaviest female deadlift!
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that…
A male powerlifter who identifies as a "woman" set a women's national record at a championship in Brandon, Manitoba, yesterday. Anne Andres, 40, currently holds multiple records in the female division, including women's deadlift and bench press, and has placed first in nine out of the eleven competitions he has participated in over the past four years.
Andres appeared at the Canadian Powerlifting Union's 2023 Western Canadian Championship yesterday, which was held at Brandon University's Healthy Living Centre. Andres participated in the Female Masters Unequipped category, and beat out Michelle Kymanick and SuJan Gil for the first place award.
According to advance results obtained by Reduxx, Andres total powerlifting score was over 200lbs more than the top-performing female in the same class - 597.5lbs versus SuJan Gil's 387.5lbs total. A "total" is the sum of the heaviest weight lifted for the squat, bench press, and deadlift…
According to a source who was present at the championship, Andres set both a Canadian women's national record and an unofficial women's world powerlifting record.
There's so much bravery here I don't even know how to put it into words!
Get up on that podium, girl!
Seriously, this is a normal thing in Canada.
Here's what made it possible, and one of the many reasons Canada is simply a joke of a country:
The Western Canadian Championships was held under the umbrella of the Canadian Powerlifting Union (CPU), which announced a gender self-identification policy earlier this year. The policy, which garnered mass backlash from women's rights advocates, explicitly allowed any males to participate in women's competitions on the basis of self-declared "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).
And here's a video of Andres mocking female weightlifters earlier in the year:
Hilarious!
My favorite part about this article, though?
Right here:
Andres' total would have placed him amongst the top-performing male powerlifters in the entire championship had he participated in the men's category.
Yeah man, might wanna consider making that change.
I think everybody wins in that situation.
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