Conservative Influencer “Zuby” As a joke, identifies as a woman and proceeds to smash the weightlifting record

He is a rare feminist icon, a weightlifting artist, Oxford graduate and hip-hop artist who set out to show that athletes who are genetically masculine should not compete alongside women.

The rapper, whose stage name is Zuby, was filmed last week smashing the British women’s deadlift record, in which the weights are raised from the ground to thigh level, while he said he was “identifying as a woman”. This video has been viewed almost 1m times on Twitter.

The 32-year-old later beat the UK women’s bench press record too, joking that his work was “strong, stunning and brave”.

It is part of a wider debate on transgender athletes’ participation in sport.

Critics also include the tennis champion Martina Navratilova, who is a long-term campaigner for LGBT…