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British rapper Zuby conducted an experiment Tuesday on Twitter, challenging the new idea that there are no inherent gender differences by doing a live weightlifting demonstration where he, "identifying as a woman," broke the British women's deadlift record.
He has become an unlikely feminist icon: the weightlifting hip-hop artist and Oxford graduate who set out to demonstrate that athletes who are genetically male should not be competing alongside women.
The rapper, whose stage name is Zuby, was filmed last week smashing the British women’s deadlift record, in which the weights are raised from the ground to thigh level, while he said he was “identifying as a woman”. The video has had almost 1m views on Twitter.
The 32-year-old later beat the UK women’s bench press record too, joking that his work was “strong, stunning and brave”.
"I keep hearing about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019," Zuby tweeted, referring to a series of recent articles insisting that male-to-female transgender individuals have "female penises," and that there's no inherent gender differences between men and women that should keep male-to-female transgender individuals from competing against natural-born women in athletic events.
"So watch me DESTROY the British Women's deadlift record without trying."
Don't worry. Zuby assured his viewers that everything was fine because, while he was deadlifting, he personally identified as a woman, making him eligible to challenge the women's record.
So easily, in fact, that while he was at it, he tried for another: The women's bench press record. And, after that, the women's squat record.
"May as well," the rapper tweeted, "to fight bigotry."
When one "expert" on international competition challenged Zuby based on Olympic regulations, which demand a lower-than-10-nanomols level of testosterone for 12 months prior to competition for male-to-female transgender individuals to compete in a global contest, Zuby simply retorted that his critic was challenging what he felt in his heart to be true.
- Zuby. You know. Zuby. You've heard of Zuby, right? The weightlifting hip-hop artist and Oxford graduate. He's huge on non ironic YouTube meathead scene.Fax_Benson
- Never heard of him but a good point well made....set