PRESS RELEASE: AUGUST 2017 “Announcing The Formation of the LGBT Powerlifting Union” … On Saturday 29th July 2017 LGBT Powerlifters from all over the world attended the inaugural LGBT International Powerlifting Championships (LGBT IPC) held in London. Nine countries were represented including Australia, Belarussia, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, United States of America and of […]
LGBT POWERLIFTING UNION
ADVOCACY – DIVERSITY – STRENGTH
The LGBT Powerlifting Union are a group of athletes, with focus on giving LGBT Powerlifters representation with both mainstream and LGBT Sports organisations.
We have recently been negotiating with the Federation of Gay Games about inclusion of Powerlifting in Gay Games XI in Hong Kong.
We have recently we have been helping mainstream organisations create their Trans policies, to make sure they are as inclusive and fair as possible.
LGBT IPC 2020
The LGBT International Powerlifting Championships are currently organised by “The Union”, as an unsanctioned fun competition, to encourage LGBT Participation in the sport.
We currently offer Novice, Closed, Open categories for participants, which gives LGBT athletes as much choice as possible to compete. (See competition rules for more details of this).
LGBT IPC started in 2017 and in 2018 was the first sports event in the world to offer an MX third gender category, welcoming Trans, Non Binary and Intersex athletes to compete. The LGBT IPC 2019 and 2020 will also have an MX Category !
In 2020 LGBT will take place in Blackpool, UK
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- 1. WEEKEND PROGRAMME OF EVENTS – LGBT IPC 2020
- 2. COMPETITION DETAILS 2020 & PREVIOUS RESULTS
- 3. LGBT IPC NOMINATIONS 2020
- 4. ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS 2020
- 5. COMPETITION RULES 2020
- 6. CONTACT US 2020
- 7. MEET THE TEAM 2020
- 8. GAY GAMES POWERLIFTING – PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
- 9. GRACE, GRIT & GLORY – TRANSLIVING MAGAZINE MARCH 2018
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