USA Powerlifting receives support from an appeals court decision regarding the exclusion of transgender lifter JayCee Cooper from the women's division. The court ruled that USAPL's decision was not discriminatory based on state laws.
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As a result, “USAPL’s exclusion of Cooper from the women’s division of its competition is neither per se discrimination, facially discriminatory, nor discrimination as a matter of law.” https://t.co/Xp0Ts1ZknV
Judge Johnson said state law bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, but not “from excluding a transgender woman from the women’s division of a strength-based athletic competition on the ground that she has male physiology, which gives her significant…
The court's 2-1 decision represented a victory for USA Powerlifting, which closed up shop in Minnesota last year after a district judge ordered it to revise its transgender policy and then rejected its proposed revisions, which would have set a testosterone limit for male-born…
“But we have concluded above that USAPL’s asserted reason for its decision — that it excluded Cooper from the women’s division of its competitions because she has male physiology, which would give her an unfair competitive advantage over athletes with female physiology — is a…
“The district court reasoned that USAPL has no evidence of a legitimate business purpose because USAPL does not have a legitimate non-discriminatory reason for its decision,” said Judge Johnson in his 32-page opinion issued Monday. https://t.co/Xp0Ts1ZknV
Minnesota Court of Appeals Judge Matthew Johnson said the district court “erred” when it ruled in February 2023 that USA Powerlifting violated the Minnesota Human Rights Act by excluding transgender lifter JayCee Cooper from the women’s division in 2019. https://t.co/nETgCV92Vi
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