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Stock image of a person powerlifting. (Envato/sportpoint74) USA Powerlifting has introduced four new competition categories at local, state and regional levels, one of which is a gender-neutral ‘MX’ category. The four new categories are MX, adaptive athlete, para bench, and raw with wraps, and will be introduced from 1 January. The move has been hailed as “forward motion” by the LGBT Powerlifting Union, but others have criticised it as “another way to discriminate against transgender, gender non-binary, and gender-nonconforming (TNBGNC) athletes”. USAP’s MX category is similar t...

USA Powerlifting announced this week it will add a gender-neutral MX competition category at local, state, and regional levels starting January 1 — one of four new categories it is adding as it seeks to become more inclusive for athletes who live outside sports' historically rigid gender binary or have physical conditions that makes it difficult or impossible for them to compete under pre-existing rules. "I'm thrilled," Ardel Thomas, the LGBT Powerlifting Union's intersex and nonbinary outreach representative, told the Bay Area Reporter. "I think it shows forward motion on their part. I fee...