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    Powerflifting Federation Under Fire For Excluding Men

    The USA Powerlifting Federation is under fire for their so-called exclusionary participation policy, which doesn't allow transgender "women" to compete due to advantages in "muscle mass, bone density, bone structure, and connective tissue."

    The policy acknowledges that its parent organization, the International Powerlifting Federation, has accepted the International Olympic Committee’s guidelines on the subject -- that trans women are welcome to compete if they undergo hormone therapy.

    “However, the IOC Guidelines also allows [sic] sports to determine the impact on fair play through such inclusion,” the policy reads. The International Powerlifting Federation’s medical committee, “while respecting the rights of those who choose to transition,” believes, among other things, that allowing trans women to compete “compromises fair play.”
    No kidding! You think allowing biological males to compete with women in weight-lifting might possibly be unfair? It's WEIGHT-LIFTING! Jeez! I'm sorry PC crowd.
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    It's totally disrespectful to all of those female weightlifters who bust their ass just to have their moment taken by a man.

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    Wait a minute now. Are you saying a transgender male is not really a female? If that is true what other attributes must transgenders give up to be "fair"?

    I think this is absolutely hilarious. In the words of a great African American orator "The chickens are coming home to roost"

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