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Canada has a new record for Women’s bench pressing, thanks to an overpowering performance by a bearded male.

Avi Silverberg, the Team Canada powerlifting coach, competed as a woman at an Alberta meet yesterday. His participation was not to belittle women, however, but to highlight the ridiculousness of the sport’s acceptance of gender self-identification.

Silverberg says the policy is discriminatory towards women.

The Canadian Powerlifting Union announced its new Trans Inclusion Policy last month, which does not require any hormone therapy before competing as another gender.

Silverberg easily outmatched his competitors in the women’s heavyweight division by bench-pressing nearly 370 pounds. This was nearly 100 pounds more than the official record for the women, which is held by Anne Andres who is a trans-identifying biological male .

Andres has won eight of the past nine competitions he has entered as a woman. He outraged the women’s powerlifting community in a video released months ago.

Andres sat on the front row as the bearded Silverberg performed the bench press. He later said the powerlifting coach was a “coward and a bigot” with “malicious intent.”