Surprise, Surprise: Male Transgender Athlete Wins Women's Weightlifting Competition
Stunningly, a male athlete beat a bunch of female athletes in a recent weightlifting competition.
Who could have ever predicted this?
The Masters National Weightlifting Championships were held this past weekend in Reno, Nevada, with men and women competing in separate categories. Or at least, mostly competing in different categories.
As noticed by the Libs of TikTok X (formerly Twitter) account, in one specific category, a weightlifter named Vicki Piper easily won in a specific category. There's just one problem, Vicki Piper is biologically male. And pictures from the event show how unbelievably obvious the physical size difference is compared to the female athletes in the category.
It's yet another inexcusable encroachment of males into women's sports that they easily dominate.
Pretty much exactly what athletes like Riley Gaines have warned about; males with innate biological advantages winning sporting events against female competitors.
Penn swimmer Lia Thomas stands on the podium after winning the 500-yard freestyle as other medalists (L-R) Emma Weyant, Erica Sullivan and Brooke Forde pose for a photo at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championship on March 17, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images).
Transgender Athletes Will Keep Winning As Long As Women Tolerate It
Unfortunately, given the cowardice of administrators, organizers and decision makers, in far too many events, women will continue to lose to transgender athletes. Unless they refuse to participate.
Gaines has made it a point to pay forfeited prize money to those who stand up to the farcical, anti-common sense theatricality of transgender athletes in women's sports.
The weightlifters in this category seem unbothered by losing to someone who's dramatically larger than they are, with physical advantages they can't hope to emulate. The margin of victory for Piper was massive; made even more absurd by the fact that weightlifting competitions are judged differently for men and women.
For males, adjustments for body mass and age are called Sinclair-Meltzer-Faber (SMF), while for females it's the Sinclair–Huebner–Meltzer–Faber (SHMF) standard. Weightlifters are supposed to be separated by biological category, because there are different biological capabilities.
Sure enough, studies have found massive differences in weightlifting performance between the two sexes.
Apparently competitive fairness no longer matters though, to ensure that organizers can maintain their ideological and political virtue. And women will keep paying the price, as long as they tolerate it happening.