Jock Talk, "Powerlifting challenges gender binary.") USAP parallels that and significantly, uses the same weight classes that LGBT Powerlifting does.Two of USAP's other new categories — adaptive athlete and para bench — are efforts to include lifters who physically otherwise might not be able to compete.
The adaptive athlete division is for athletes who have conditions that make it impossible for them to meet some of the technical requirements of the lifts, such as fully extending knees or elbows or grasping the weight bar in an approved manner without adaptation.