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Viva Frei - Recovering Former Litigator! From Law to Politics & Beyond

Oh Trans Canada! April Hutchinson, Suspended for Calling Out Male Competitor in Female Powerlifting!

Viva Frei - Recovering Former Litigator! From Law to Politics & Beyond

David Freiheit

Education

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Exclusive interview with Canadian powerlifter April Hutchinson, who faced a 2-year suspension from the Canadian Powerlifting Union after speaking out against a male athlete competing in women’s events under the pretext of being "trans". April shares her story, the backlash she endured, and her fight for fairness in women’s sports.

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Viva Fry podcast on today's episode. I have powerlifter April Hutchinson,

0:05.2

who is suspended for two years by the Alberta Powerlifting Association because she called out a man

0:11.2

competing in women's powerlifting and breaking all the records. Enjoy the podcast.

0:17.8

Good morning, evening, afternoon. Whenever you're watching this, we're trying something a little different at the Viva Frye Rumble Channel at VivaBarnslaw.Law.Locals.com.

0:29.3

Pre-recorded interview that we record live and publish later, except we are recording it live now within the locals community so that anybody who wants to participate

0:38.1

watch in real time, comment in real time and get your questions in during the actual live

0:42.8

interview can do so at viva barnslaw.locals.com.

0:47.4

If you don't know who the guest for today is, you're going to know afterwards.

0:51.7

I'm sure many of you have heard the story because it's a story

0:56.1

that defies, is the word defies credulity? It makes you think that you're living in a bizarreo

1:02.2

upside down universe. The story of a woman bodybuilder up in Canada who competes in bodybuilding or I shouldn't say bodybuilding,

1:12.7

but weightlifting events. We'll get the details on the types of events. I'm not that well-versed

1:17.5

and that type of stuff. Sport. But it's a female. And I'm not even going to qualify her as a

1:23.5

biological female as if we live in a world where we have to qualify what type of female

1:28.0

we're talking about? Are we talking about a biological female or a man with gender dysphoria

1:32.1

who identifies in his own mind as a woman, which is all fine and well to the extent that that

1:38.4

man doesn't get to come in and compete in women's sports, crush women's records, and destroy the dreams that aspiring

1:47.5

female athletes had to compete at the highest level and to win and succeed on their own merits,

1:54.6

on their own skill and biology, without having to be defeated by, I'm not even going to call him a biological man, a man.

2:04.1

And April Hutchinson is one of the people who there's been a few stories of this where

2:09.5

you can't get over the insanity of it. Riley Gaines was the other. Taylor, the skateboarder,

2:17.0

is another.

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