A Minnesota judge has ordered USA Powerlifting to allow male-born athletes who identify as female to compete in the women’s category, a victory for the transgender movement and defeat for advocates of single-sex sports.
Ramsey County District Court Judge Patrick C. Diamond gave USA Powerlifting two weeks to revise its policies and cease its “unfair discriminatory practices” after ruling in favor of JayCee Cooper, a lifter who was barred in 2019 from women’s events after transitioning from male to female.
Gender Justice, which represents Cooper, called it “a huge win today for transgender rights in sports.” “With Gender Justice on my side, I fought as hard as I could to ensure that every trans athlete has the opportunity to compete, and be recognized with full dignity and humanity,” Cooper said in a statement.
Opponents of allowing male-born athletes in women’s sports based on gender identity urged the sports organization to fight the decision. The decision comes with courts taking up the issue of fairness versus diversity in women’s sports as states move to prohibit biological males from competing in female scholastic athletics. Eighteen states have passed such laws since 2020.in favor of the state’s 2021 Save Women’s Sports Act, finding that “biological males are not similarly situated to biological females for purposes of athletics.”
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