USA Powerlifting is facing a discrimination complaint in Minnesota over its transgender athlete policy after it said JayCee Cooper, a biological man, couldn’t compete in women’s events. The federation’s president told The Daily Caller it’s prepared to go to court to keep the policy in place, and framed the policy as protecting the federal rights of women.
“At some point, we are going to have to defend the biology and stand on women being a protected class, and it might as well start in Minnesota,” Larry Maile, USA Powerlifting president, told the Caller. The policy is not new, but the federation commissioned a group of experts to find out if it’s backed by science earlier this year, after the dispute with Cooper thrust them into the media spotlight late last year. The results were clear: It’s unfair to allow biological men to compete with women.
A Minnesota legal nonprofit, Gender Justice, filed the complaint with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights last week on behalf of Cooper, asserting the policy illegally discriminates against people on the basis of gender identity. Sexual orientation is a protected class in Minnesota.
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Simple solution create a transgender category for the freak show!!
ReplyDeleteLol yup
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There just aren't enough transgenders with the ability to compete to make up enough teams or have large competitions against other transgenders.
ReplyDeleteLibs like bowing down to 0.0001 percent of the population and to call STRAIGHT people homophobes of which I am I GUESS.
DeleteFYI USA Powerlifting does have a transgender category. They just don't generally have enough participants.
ReplyDelete@11:34 then let them compete against their biological peers, in other words the same sex they were born as.
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