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I am making an assumption here which I know is dangerous but, I like to live dangerously....

So did he, Avi just declare himself a woman to compete in the category looking like the biological male that he is to point out the absurdity of all this and to put Anna in their place? If not, perhaps a real man should do this to make a point and ruin the unfair game.

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Yes, that is what he did. Plus he didn’t want the other guy that was at the top to be the no.1 --rather it should reflect what is really happening--that is a man did it. Brilliant imo.

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Love him for this!!! We need real men to step up for the women and this is classic!!!! Let's hope more will take his lead. I am so bewildered that people can't see how unfair men in women's sports is. It's scary how brainwashed many are along with being completely lacking in critical thinking skills. I didn't realize how terrible the education we give children has become until Covid and so much damage has already occurred. It's really shocking!

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Covid has opened many eyes including my own (which I thought at the time were pretty open). I’m grateful for the lesson and ready to finally move on in the knowledge that has been given and teach it as far and wide as possible! Blessings!

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Same with me

Covid did it

Was a rude awakening out of my slumber

But one I cherish dearly now

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It's the humiliation aspect of this sinister malevolent cabal. WEF

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Basically it’s: don’t question the narrative.

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I’m sorry. I think we just need some commonsense, decency, fair play to bring us back to a better place. Those who are pushing against this really need to check their values.

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young women need to stop competing in these races. sorry, but that's the reality. they are going to have to grow some metaphoric "balls," stop worrying what people will think of them or about their college scholarships, etc. they have bigger fish to fry.

why would any woman bother competing against william thomas when they are just going to lose by lengths? walk away. if you're uncomfortable seeing an intact male with a mental problem flash his genitals in YOUR changing room, call the police, report the perv, scream at him and tell him to get out of your space! treat him as you would any male intruder because THAT'S WHAT HE IS- A MALE INTRUDER. he may have grown his hair and adopted a fake name but he was, is and will always be a man no matter how many hormones he takes and no matter how many body parts he has lopped off.

you don't have to feel uncomfortable with him in your shower. kick him out! let the insane people who currently run our country know that you will not stand for this! where are the fathers of these girls who are expected to share changing facilities with a man pretending to be a woman? let's just all stop pretending. the game only works if no one points out that the emperor has no clothes.

call these guys by their real male names. don't use their pronouns. and above all don't compete against them. let william thomas have the pool to himself.

this is a fantasy and all it would take is one brave person to call it out like kellie jean keen, who famously said at a swim match when some masked twinkie asked her how she knew that william thomas was a man, was she a biologist?

"oh god, i'm not a vet but i know what a dog is!" she replied.

and that's it. we all know and have always known since childhood the difference between boys and girls, the difference between men and women. just say what you know.

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If you want to seek out some of the root causes, it will not be one particular sin, but rather, the persistent teaching, in the Protestant denominations over the past 150 years, that the Law of God is no longer in force.

This is taught right in the churches, either by saying that "the law is old covenant," or that "we are under grace, not law," or by teaching that grace covers every sin: past, present, and future, or by claiming that Christ will stand in our place in the Judgment (so there is no need to have living righteousness). With the Law of God out of the way, people are free to follow their evil passions.

"The setting aside of the divine precepts gave rise to thousands of springs of evil, discord, hatred, iniquity, until the earth became one vast field of strife, one sink of corruption." (The Great Controversy, p. 655).

Christians are supposed to be "the salt of the earth." But when "the salt has lost its savor", when Christians cease to be "the salt of the earth," (and "salt" represents "righteousness") then there is nothing to prevent the world from corruption.

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The seven deadly sins are being inverted into the seven cardinal virtues. Look at how much evil has been unleashed on the world since Vatican ll. The effects of destroying the Mass are palpable.

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Except what he lifted is really rather pathetic compared to what real men lift. Speculating that Ari is a trans man who went trans woman so she/he/she could win at something.

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It took me a while and asking my powerlifting buddy while I was at the gym what was going on but he already knew about it. I’m a female who still competes in powerlifting at 69 and hold the American bench press record so I can get with this...the gender bender shit needs to be pushed back and this men in female sports is so cringe!

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You should see the extent to which these fanatics push this crap at my kid's school. It's the new "mask or else" routine. "Embrace trans kids or else you are evil."

No, libtard, you are evil. You are promoting degenerate bodily mutilation of children and madness.

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So glad my kid is grown. Praying it gets better before I have any more biological skin in the game so to speak. Keep fighting at your local levels, which is where your vote counts the most!

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I wonder if going to the school board meetings helps. I was a sub for 11 years and never saw this kind of sick stuff. I’m tempted to do it again and go into my grandson‘s school to see what’s up.

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you should. please prove to these... (I don't know WHAT they are,) um, people, that a man is not a strong woman. a strong woman is just that... a woman.

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Love it. I’ve thought about running for school committee in the town I grew up in and am back living in. My kids are grown and didn’t school here so I have no skin in the game, yet it is us that need to infiltrate this madness.

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This has to be the red-line. What about a detransitioning show modeled after the hit cable addiction /alcoholism show INTERVENTION. Read this , this morning "I feel so lost. I genuinely do not know whether I'm a man or a woman, but I think I've come to the conclusion that gender isn't real and sex is an immutable characteristic that I can't deny." Off the /lgbtq board on 4chan.

There should be highly publicized counter culture to this insane delusional fixation

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can you take your kids out of school? or make noise at a school board meeting? you'll be branded a domestic terrorist but that's a compliment these days

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My kid's mother would make a massive fuss because she's basically a conventional member of society, whatever society is. If the regime were medieval and Christian, she'd obey its rules. If it were Soviet, she'd obey its rules. In short, no principles. No thoughtfulness about principles. This is a problem. I have to play the long game. I will attempt to remove him from that school as quickly as I possibly can. It's awful.

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best of luck. keep your kids close

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I try. Thank you very much.

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You go girl!!! Keep lifting its amazingly fantastic for your bones and overall health!

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Thank you! Been at it since 22...keeps me young in body and mind, nothing like it. I recommend for all no matter what age.

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That is OBJECTIVELY awesome (not awesome in the way these deluded saddos want to be awesome). Good for you.

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Thanks! I think part of it is I’ve always liked being in a man’s world.

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I’ve never done powerlifting but in my mid 60’s I took up Olympic lifting and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately I blew out my knee and had to give it up. But I wish I had known about it in my 20s. Can someone do it without a coach?

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Any kind of weight lifting (if done correctly) is excellent for building and maintaining bone density (muscle pulling on bone builds bone--and muscle). It doesn’t have to be as goal oriented as competitive lifting (but that can be a way to motivate some) but some observational training (or UTUBE videos) would be advised if you’re unsure how to start.

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Thank you. I’m intrigued by this!

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Olympic lifting is great! I never did it...I’d take out a few mirrors 😂 Of course you can! Not hugely different from OLY, you just have more accessory lifts to support the powerlifting part...the three lifts.

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Athlean-x has a great youtube channel with lots of good advice - and he's getting older himself now! LOL

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love it "gender bender shit" RIGHT!!

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Wow! Good for you powerlifting. You are an inspiration and congratulations on your record. Yes! Fairness in competition is so important to maintain. That is why I speak up about men in women’s sports categories and if anyone tries to paint my motives as something mean, I correct them because I am so tired of dishonest framing to avoid the real issue of fairness. I hope you can set more records!

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Thank you! We are in such an upside down world that this is even an issue. We normies have had a lot of weirdo sheeeit thrown at us lately... they are trying to see what sticks and I think people are getting fed up pretty quickly. I will try to set the 70-75 yr old record next year. Damn I gotta hold on a whole year 😐

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You can do it! Stay strong and rock on!

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I’ll try just for you 😊

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So funny, take that you woketards. Touche'

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ugh, to put "anna" is HIS place. "anna" is a single person of one of two possible genders (male) and so can't be put in "their" place.

the minute we all stop going along with this bullshit language, the nonsense will end.

rapper Zuby did something like this. he made an affectionate sarcastic video of himself easily smashing the woman's dead lifting record. he was obviously showing the absurdity of it all as i suspect coach Avi was doing.

canada has gone insane.

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These people, or some of them, are murderous fanatics. They are delighting in the murder of six people, including children, this week and the powers that be excuse or even condone their evil. Look up Trans Day of Rage and T Shirts that read "Trans Rights or Else." They are orcs, and orcs used to be elves. They need to be actively stopped, not just ignored.

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Put Anna in “their” place? What does that mean? Be daring—use correct grammar!

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I knew I’d be called out for that. Because I am sure there is a very, very small segment of people who really do feel like they are the wrong gender, I was trying to walk that line. I have compassion for the marginalized and honestly, I would hate feeling like my body was a mistake. That would be hard to live with. That said, I truly believe most of what is happening is contrived and some people and industries are making BIG money off the vulnerable at their expense for nefarious reasons. So in the case of Anna, it would seem very easy to think he is gaming the system unfairly and if I am wrong I will apologize.

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Totalitarianism is when wrong is right and right is wrong. The ultimate gaslighting on a massive scale.

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yup. in a nutshell. ;)

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I get it! but wanna say: back in the day (80's), when I was an undergrad studying developmental psychology, gender dysmorphia was considered a 'one in a million' event. it was when a gestational mishap caused a baby's genitalia to be ambiguous in some physical way, then the child was 'labeled' a gender that did not match with their chromosomes (XX female or XY male). sometimes this was not discovered until puberty, when the true gender became obvious. of course, this then was a MAJOR psychological problem for the person. my point is that it DOES happen but it truly is very rare. imho, what we are seeing now, is some kind of exploitation of the awkwardness of puberty (at the very least). and nobody is talking about the fact that we now have the second generation of kids growing up awash in endocrine disrupting chemicals...

I am 100% okay with adults doing & being whatever the hell they want to be/do, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else (I've had gay/bi friends for my entire life, c'est la vie!)

BUT the case can be made that these biologically MALE athletes are in fact, hurting the biologically FEMALE athletes, who worked hard to be at the top of their sport, in a level playing field. so that is NOT okay and its NOT being a homophobe (or whatever 'phobe) to say that.

just my 2 cents.

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Julie Hemmings and Warrior Mom BOTH... you both nailed it.... 100%. I have compassion for that small segment who truly has an issue... but the reality is so small... I would even say that there are a few who were in fact born with the "other" genetalia and have known from early on they were the other sex.... but even that is so so so rare... I have me a couple of people like that... but I would still say to wait until later to make that decision... Right now, as you said, there's a whole thriving industry around it... not to mention a depop agenda AND a Marxist agenda to cause chaos and confusion.... ALL OF IT is in full force right now... #SaveTheChildren #SaveOurCountry

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exactly. a-okay with ADULTS to be whatever, even if they are choosing, even if they 'change their minds' later. kids... forget about it! no. leave them alone. heck in most places kids can't get tattoos or ear/body piercing, neither of which are exactly 'life altering'.

I have a very close friend who says he knew he was 'different' at a young age. thank goodness it was the 1960's and not now. he's a gay man. doesn't want to be a woman. thinks the whole 'trans' thing is nuts & he's horrified by the trans kid thing. he had a close friend who was a full-time cross dresser (believe me, you could tell he was a male) but even that person didn't attempt to alter their body (hair and nails don't count, lol)

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Rare hormonal problems. Even rarer chromosomal abnormalities. None of these trannies used as poster kids suffer those physiological issues. A cry for attention and acceptance. A little like anorexia in the 80s.

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True, it is so so so rare, but in those RARE cases, the parents are aware of it and hopefully facilitate whatever medical response they determine with a doc. I would bet there are almost no trans people who can produce any medical records that support the convictions.

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I agree with you and respect what you say 100 percent!

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back at ya! :)

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I know how it feels to hate your body with a passion. I still do, but it was worse when young. That's when looks really matter. I never wanted to be a man. But everyone called me ugly. So I did unhealthy things trying to become good enough for love.

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'They' want us to accept them for who they are - when they can't even accept themselves for who they are... :-(

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It does seem like a lot of today's trans activists are misogynistic men who want to invade women's safe spaces.

The phenomenon of over-the-top trans-activism could plausibly have been fomented to provoke a reflexive return to strict traditionalism. Which IMHO would be a bad thing.

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That is an interesting theory I hadn’t considered. I can’t help but think it’s being driven by a few very wealthy, powerful individuals who are investing in nonprofit organizations. It is a step closer to trans humanism, blurring the lines of man, woman, machine. The AI boys are advancing far too quickly and changing our lives. There are powerful forces behind this but I think they could truly care less about trans people but using them. It’s really sad because there are a lot of mental health issues in the group that identifies this way and the last thing they need is validation by people who don’t care about helping them at all.

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I get that there are real people with real gender dysphoria, doing the best they can in an unfriendly world, and I agree that the latest crop of trans activists are doing those people an extreme disservice.

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I can’t help but think it’s the politically motivated activists who are pushing this on everyone so obtrusively that is causing this turmoil. I believe that the hidden money behind these groups has an interest in making money off of the drugs and surgeries they push on these vulnerable individuals. Because they are allowed to operate in the dark, people can’t easily see their real motives and instead buy into their lies and are thus abused.

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Put Anna in IT'S place

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naughty, naughty (lmao)

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Why not just say "his"? It's better not to try to reason with insanity

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tee hee. ;)

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Like an odd high school shop teacher with a giant rack. Ridicule is an effective weapon.

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I love it! Never thought of how to move through this upside down. Thanks

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Yes. As you correctly assumed, Avi entered the competition "self-identifying" as a woman to protest the current policy that allows anyone to do just that. If you see the video, he did the lift with hardly any effort, because he is a competirive male power lifter and can bench press twice that weight.

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I am pretty sure that is exactly what he did.

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Yes

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To quote Ricky Gervais, "SHE, you bigot!" referring to Avi. (Also, Anna is a he)

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FANTASTIC! Two can play that game eh? As Canadians say! All Avi needed was a little pink bow on the top of his head. Thank God people are starting to fight back!

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he should have done some badly applied lipstick. but 'au naturale' was good too. ;)

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It’s ok if it’s mis applied, just learning I’m sure, great lift Coach 💪🏻

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I also LOVE that in making this point, he went with a FULL BEARD and a male singlet.... and then CASUALLY broke the record by 100 pounds... The transgender athlete was VERY MAD about this -- since s/he had won 8 of 9 of the last competitions... I hope Avi follows "her" around and competes everywhere she does!

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Yes, the full beard was awesome!! The absurdity is real!!

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Melody why are you complaining about someone you believe is a female, this Anna person? If it’s a woman, as your speech indicates, then I don’t see why you have a problem with this woman competing against other women. If it’s a man, and we both know this is the case, why do you and others call her a woman? Every time you refer to this person as female gendered you are validating the lie. And the teachers confuse and destroy the little kids this way, by encouraging pronoun nonsense.

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I don't have a problem if adults want to identify as whatever... I believe in Freedom.... However no men competing in women's sports and no teaching the ideology to kids. And I don't think people should be cancelled for using the wrong pronounds.... I don't have problem playing along a little until it starts infringing upon others rights and freedom.

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I hear you and respect what you are saying. Thing is, it seems there’s no room given to just play along a little, they demand entire and exact obedience to their delusional system and freak out or even get violent if you don’t play by their rules. There’s some kind of crazy militancy thing going on in our culture now and it’s just pathological.

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Avi is STUNNING AND BRAVE for all of the right reasons!

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Anna is a dude. Stop playing the game if you’re serious about stopping this bs. It’s not a her it’s a him. It’s not really that hard to understand.

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Would be fabulous if he gave the first place prize to the next (biological female) runner-up.

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That's what I thought too... To give it to the actual TOP FEMALE!!!

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Biological women should lift against biological women. It is of no positive value what this man has done. Women lifters need to make up their own league with proper rules.

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It has wonderful positive value. The fact that he won over the previous "transgender" record holder makes it that much sweeter. I do believe the man is doing what Alinksy called "make them live by their own rules".

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btw, so-called Lia Thomas tied with Riley Gaines at a time of 1:43.40, his actual female competitor. According to swimming world magazine: https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/a-look-at-the-numbers-and-times-no-denying-the-advantages-of-lia-thomas/ "The fact that the University of Pennsylvania swimmer soared from a mid-500s ranking (554th in the 200 freestyle; all divisions) in men’s competition to one of the top-ranked swimmers in women’s competition tells the story of the unfairness which unfolded at the NCAA level." I chose this quote with no pronouns for a reason.

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He did it precisely to protest the policy of allowing anyone "identifying as a woman" to compete in women powerlifting.

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Thanks for the positive responses. In the beginning Yahweh God made a special creation of one man and one woman and ordered them that they would multiply and fill the earth. He created them in His image, He said. When humans try to best God they are in for the worst surprise of their life. May even these find salvation and truth in Him.

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Be fair and have a seperate division for trans women only.

Otherwise this is rediculous.

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No such thing as a trans woman, only a mentally ill man.

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Scotty? It's long past beam up time.

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Great comment. If anybody sees Scotty, send him my way. Can't take it any more.

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😂🤣😅

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👍 I hear ya

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Definitely the example of a 'REAL MAN' 🤔

secure in herself. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

🎯 AND THANK-YOU.

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Gosh darn hero

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This whole trans nonsense just gets more and more absurd as time passes. Society has taken leave of its senses while commonsense just laughs and then cries.

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THIS MADE MY DAY!!!!! Hoisted on their own petard. 😂😂😂😂

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I'm assuming this article is satire. Could there be a greater affront to women's sports than allowing biological males to pose as female? Sheesh!

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Lia, I think Avi did it to prove a point! He used the rules against the transgender idiot who was beating all the females - He fought back - using their bull lines to enter the competition - I think I'll be a piano tomorrow - I love to sing....just as ridiculous!

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Oh, wonderful! Good on him! Thanks for clarifying.

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Thx to Lia, doors, and others for clarification. I couldn't imagine the article being anything but satire. As Mr. Wonderful says on "Shark Tank", "Stop the Madness." How did it ever become ok for me to 'identify' as something I'm biologically not? Congressmen actually ask female witnesses in hearings, "What is a woman?" Really? "I'm not a biologist" was the best cop out answer yet. I actually know of a grade school kid who identified as a cat. Parents went along with it or even put the idea in his head but they talked to the principle about accommodation. A litter box was placed in the nurse's office for the kid-cat. I wouldn't make this up bc I'm not that creative, or insidious. Hey Transcriber B, did you find Scottie yet? My vax injury brain fog is acting up.

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I met someone who thought they were a cat...I just growled and barked at him and he ran away :)

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Effective tactic, based on nature.

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A woman is a female of the human species and everybody knew that until a few years ago - Like a Vixen is a female of the fox species...

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I do believe the man is trying to make a point. He succeeded wonderfully.

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Maybe a group of man could do this, Enter a female competition so that they win Gold. Silver and Bronze. Then do a media conference where they hand over their medals to the women who really would have won if the competition only included genuine XX women. Make a big media photo op out of it. The blokes could say we are feminist men standing up for up for women's rights in sports until the officials overseeing women's sports grow a pair and return women's sports back to women.

The people allowing this stuff to happen in women's sport (whether these officials be men or women) have been totally captured out of fear of a bullying extermist minority who are funded behind the scenes ny globalists who are trying to demoralise and destroy what is left of western civilisation, including the last tattered remains of Judeo-Christian values.

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How did this trans movement take off like this in the first place? The systemic support for this does not couple well with there being any real threat to this movement. It really is the strangest thing I've witnessed.

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Is there any way to follow money supporting it? That would help us understand the movement behind it.

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There is a book there to be written by some brave intrepid writer. It would likely take someone who came up in this education system and found a way out.

The money is pouring into the schools and social activist groups, think tanks and policy forums from somewhere.

The movement reeks of a construct, there isn't an organic bone in it.

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I know there are lists of groups Soros has put money into, it wouldn’t surprise me if this was something he’d support. It’s all about deconstructing our society.

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He is def a culprit, anyone at the top of the transhumanist movement also, major funding of medicine (Rockefellers etc)...

... its the same cabal that is throwing all the issues down on to society, the decades old plan to destroy the nuclear family, break down culture into a dependent group of infertile hormonally confused masses addicted to tech and convenience and dependence.

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She’s hot

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The story is true but he was doing this in protest. “Male Canadian Powerlifter Breaks Women’s Bench-Press Record in Protest against Trans-Inclusion Policy https://www.nationalreview.com/news/male-canadian-powerlifter-breaks-womens-bench-press-record-in-protest-against-trans-inclusion-policy/

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