Monthly Archives: August 2017

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