To some, the Transgendered Movement is becoming Increasingly dogmatic

BY SIMONE J. SMITH

On August 13^th, “Anne” Andres broke the national powerlifting women’s classic record. Andres set the national record at a championship in Brandon, Manitoba, at the Canadian Powerlifting Union’s 2023 Western Canadian Championship. Andres outlifted the females in the category by over 200 kilograms, beating out Michelle Kymanick and Sujan Gil in the Female Masters Unequipped category to win first place. Andres has set Canadian records in the female division of powerlifting in bench press and deadlift.

Reason to celebrate, yes? Well maybe for Anne, but for some the fact that “Anne” Andres, 40, is a biological man who identifies as a woman, has halted this celebration. This event has sparked outrage amongst biological female competitors, many of whom withdrew from the competition, citing Andres’ unfair advantage in being a biological male.

“Anne” Andres is setting records that biological females cannot naturally break with their physical strength. Women, who devote their lives to their sport, are being sidelined due to this unfair advantage, and many of them believe that it is time to level the playing field once again.

Despite the numerous complaints by countless women, the Canadian Powerlifting Union (CPU) has remained silent on allowing Andres to continue competing directly against female athletes. Imagine, we are now in a world where women’s sports records are broken by someone who isn’t a biological female.

In April 2022, a census was released which offered an unprecedented snapshot of Canada’s transgender population, showing 0.33% of residents identify as a gender that differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. The data collected during 2021’s national household survey shows about 100,815 people are transgender or non-binary, including 31,555 who are transgender women, 27,905 who are transgender men and 41,355 who are non-binary.

To some, the transgendered movement is becoming increasingly dogmatic. The assertion that ‘trans women are women’ is everywhere. The threat that gender self-identification poses to women’s sex-based rights has also become clear.

No really; let’s talk about this. With men and women, there are distinctions that are based on actual differences. Male and female are really different things in many senses. When it comes to women’s bodies and who gets pregnant, who’s stronger, who commits most of the violent crime and sexual offences, it’s clear that there is a difference. The trans movement is demanding that we ignore a distinction that is based on difference.

It seems like this difference is being ignored and now we have individuals like Andres who are found mocking his female opponents on social media, stating: “Why is women’s bench so bad? I mean, not compared to me… I mean, standard bench in powerlifting competition for women. I literally don’t understand why it’s so bad.”

Canadian competitive powerlifter April Hutchinson noted on an episode of the Piers Morgan Uncensored show that it has been “Very disheartening,” to witness what has been taking place.

“For example, that national record that he broke – athletes have been chasing that for years. And we’re talking top athletes who have been training, and training, and training. It goes to show the advantages, the physiological advantages that a male has over a female, whether it’s muscle mass, bone density, lung capacity. I could go on,” Hutchinson said.

“A lot of women yesterday dropped out of the competition because they knew that Anne would be lifting. They dropped, they quit, they wrote to the federation, and the federation basically did nothing about it.”

Author and self-declared feminist Kara Dansky has been vocal about the fact that the true agenda of what has become known as the “transgender movement” is to abolish sex. Dansky, author of the new book “The Abolition of Sex: How the ‘Transgender’ Agenda Harms Women and Girls,” not only takes issue with the objective to destroy the concept of sex, but also with the use of the term “transgender.”

“The term ‘transgender’ was invented, but the word has no coherent meaning whatsoever,” Dansky says, adding that “Every single person on the face of the planet, all 8 billion of us, are either female or male, and that’s it.”

In response to Andres’, former competitive swimmer and women’s rights activist Riley Gaines responded, “Being a woman or a female athlete doesn’t mean we’re inferior… but we’re different to men. That’s exactly why the women’s sporting category was ever even created.”

Is it possible that maybe there needs to be another category introduced in the sporting world where transgendered individuals are able to compete separate from the male and female categories? Thoughts community!