A British weightlifter and fitness coach who kept “hearing about how biological men don’t have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019” decided to “identify as a woman” and smash the woman’s deadlift record in order to prove a point.

According to Zuby, a rapper, podcaster and fitness coach, biological males should not be competing in women’s sports, regardless of their choice of gender identification.

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Men’s and women’s sporting competitions have historically, with a few exceptions, been separate. But in recent years, it has become more common for trans women (biological males) to compete in women’s events.

Trans women have competed against biological women in the top flights of several sports, including athletics, cycling, handball, volleyball and weightlifting. Most famously, Rachel McKinnon, born male, won gold in female track cycling at the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships.

Many argue that male biology confers certain unavoidable advantages and so women could lose out if women’s categories are opened up to biological males. Zuby, a rapper, podcaster and fitness coach, set out to prove this.

He has produced several viral videos in which he breaks British women’s weightlifting records while ‘identifying’ as a woman.