A Canadian transgender athlete set a new unofficial world record in women's powerlifting during a competition last week.
Transgender athlete sparks outrage after toppling women's powerlifting world record: 'Completely unfair'Madeline CogginsA Canadian transgender athlete set a new unofficial world record in women's powerlifting during a competition last week.
The Canadian Powerlifting Union 's gender self-identification Trans Inclusion Policy, announced earlier this year, allows athletes the choice of competiting with the gender they self-identify as vs. biological birth. "I have written my federation I don't know how many times about this matter. We had actually this past Sunday when Anne competed, we had athletes actually write to the federation prior to the competition telling them about Anne and the complete unfairness and dropping out. We had three people drop out. One competitor actually basically cut weight just to go into a different category so that she didn't have to compete against Anne. So the federation is not listening.
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