US Court Rules That Trans Weightlifters Can Compete Against Women

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A Minnesota state court has ruled that USA Powerlifting must include biological men who identify as women in the women’s divisions of competitions.

The decision was made following a discrimination court case.

Weightlifter JayCee Cooper won a lawsuit against the organisation after claiming it violated Minnesota state’s Human Rights Act after he was barred from competing against women.

MSN reports: The federation was ordered to “cease and desist from all unfair discriminatory practices” related to sexual orientation and gender identity and reverse its former policy of barring transgender athletes within two weeks, according to the ruling.

“The harm is in making a person pretend to be something different, the implicit message being that who they are is less than. That is the very essence of separation and segregation, and it is what the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) prohibits.”

Ms Cooper described to Minnesota television station KARE her feelings of relief that a court had ruled in her favour: “I was fed up with the way that I was being treated, I was fed up with the way that my community was being treated and enough was enough.”

USA Powerlifting officials said they were considering appealing the decision.

“Our position has been aimed at balancing the needs of cis- and transgender women, whose capacities differ significantly in purely strength sports,” said Lawrence Maile, the organisation’s president, in a statement to KARE.

“We have received a summary judgement decision from the court finding us liable for discrimination. We respectfully disagree with the court’s conclusions. We are considering all of our options, including appeal,” Mr Maile said.

Across the US the issue has become divisive, with 18 states passing laws banning transgender women or girls in sports.

10 Comments

    • Yes but it is also a vicious attack on girls & women to humiliate & discount them for the gratification of a single male who cannot compete fairly with other males in his own weight class & has retained his original genitalia so he may resume his male activities at will.

  1. Well I feel like a billionaire. So whose denying me my identity. What illegal persons are denting me my rights to be myself?

    • Howard hughes was a trillionaire with over 200,000 patent right royuitys he found the path to forever being rich and tax free at HHMI.BUT EVERYONE down the triangle from the TOP ONE% to the lowest got a bite of hughes`s money via the trickle down system of the control group.I would have been the ONLY TRILLIONAIRE but I was beat shot stabbed stomped and frozen and without food via my human trafficker/SS for so long by even my studio owned mother that I never felt anything just like good old dad and dad didn`t hand down anything to anyone.My right to my DNA chain is stolen but money means nothing but a security blanket and even dad`s of just a death trap of mobsters-he was unable to buy security even with his trillions so what hope would money ever offer me?.REALITY is as much of a trap as not living in reality is

  2. True women in all sports competitions should walk away when learning if a man pretending to be a woman is in any competition they are in.

  3. Another corrupt court that needs to be dealt with. It’s very simple…the chromosomes don’t lie. Test those & you’ll have proof that it’s either a male or a female.

  4. Does that mean that all the weight classes in men’s sports must be dispensed with also & that all light weight boxers must face heavyweights? Does it mean that those who use testosterone to increase their athletic abilities are no free to compete with natural athletes? Does this mean that those who lie about their gender commitment & keep their original genitalia are permitted into female dressing areas to rape them? Does it mean the end of all women’s competitive sports because they will be required to compete with those who spent years building larger & stronger bodies with their natural testosterone? Is it just & fair to deny all women the ability to compete in athletics to pander to the fantasies of some male who cannot compete among men? Why would you support this war on girls & women?

  5. Soon there will be no need to differentiate women’s and men’s sports; since all it takes is a “feeling” to move from one to the other. Our courts have been subsumed by the lying perverts, they are unable to use logic or ethics, and instead insist on using feelings for their rulings. America has fallen because we now deny truth for feelings.

  6. Women you either stop competing with Fake Women (MEN) or you get what you deserve, A Destroyed Sports Future, Because You Refuse To Sacrifice for all Women (The Cause) you are Selfish and deserve to lose!!!

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