{"id":82225,"date":"2018-10-09T07:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82225"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:34","slug":"navy-petty-officer-wins-transgender-bodybuilding-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82225","title":{"rendered":"Navy petty officer wins transgender bodybuilding contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wes Phills, of Brooklyn, N.Y., center, walks offstage after winning the overall award and middleweight class in the International Association of Trans Bodybuilders competition in Atlanta on Saturday. At left are fellow competitors Peter Moore, and Sandy Baird, both of Oakland, Calif., and Kennedy Conners, right, of Conyers, Ga., who took home the heavyweight trophy. (David Goldman\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Competitors were judged in the categories of lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight and masters, for age 60 and over, according to five disciplines: mass, definition, proportion, symmetry and stage presence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought the Navy was all about the water.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been 20 years since Charles Bennett took the stage to compete in bodybuilding. But at the age of 63, he\u2019s now done something he\u2019s never done before \u2014 compete as a man for the first time in what\u2019s billed as the world\u2019s only transgender bodybuilding competition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bennett and seven fellow competitors went before a crowd Saturday evening in the annual\u00a0International Association of Trans Bodybuilders\u00a0<\/a>competition at a theater in\u00a0Atlanta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The competition has attracted bodybuilders from across the country and even Russia since it began in 2014, according to executive director and head judge\u00a0Bucky Motter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Competitors were judged in the categories of lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight and masters, for age 60 and over, according to five disciplines: mass, definition, proportion, symmetry and stage presence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bennett had the most experience of those on stage, and saw his role as more coach than competitor, helping others practice their poses backstage. He also offered diet tips, shared his preshow rituals and helped Peter Moore of Oakland, California, apply fake tan, his hand running over the scars where Moore had his breasts removed when he transitioned to male two years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Go Navy !<\/p>\n

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