Posted on 03/02/2023 6:07:10 AM PST by lowbridge
JayCee Cooper, a transgender powerlifter born a male, has won a big victory in liberal Minnesota after a court ruled that USA Powerlifting violated Cooper’s rights under state law by barring him from competing as a woman.
Cooper, 34, claims he transitioned to being a woman in 2014 and takes an anti-androgen drug that substantially decreases the testosterone in his body, the New York Daily News reported in 2021.
But in 2018, Cooper says he was sent a letter by USA Powerlifting telling him that he was banned from competing as a woman because “male-to-female transgender people are not allowed to compete as females in our static strength sport as it is a direct competitive advantage.”
District Court Judge Patrick Diamond, appointed to the bench by liberal Democrat Gov. Mark Dayton in 2012, filed his ruling in favor of Cooper’s attack on USA Powerlifting’s ban.
“By denying Cooper the right to participate in the female category, the category consistent with her self-identification, USAPL denied her the full and equal enjoyment of the services, support, and facilities USAPL offered its members,” Diamond wrote in his ruling, according to SB Nation. “It separated Cooper and segregated her and, in doing so, failed to fully perform the contractual obligations it agreed to when it accepted Cooper’s money and issued Cooper a membership card.”
The judge gave USA Powerlifting two weeks to submit revised rules that comply with the state’s left-wing law.
Cooper celebrated his win.
“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 exclaimed. “I am thrilled that this ruling recognizes our rights and our humanity and hopefully opens doors for transgender athletes everywhere to participate fully in sports.”
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“Judgey” is FOS.
Not only are trannies insane but they’re self-centered and egotistical. Legitimate women of sports are being denied their rightful achievements by these nut cases.
Well guess it could self identify as a woman (I’m not) for my business to qualify for special set asides for women owned businesses.... or I could self identify as an African American (I’m not) for my business for those special set asides...... Thanks Court!
Do these big, burly trannies really think they are accomplishing something by beating a bunch of girls in weight lifting?
Can’t wait for the Olympics.
Yeah, they’re proving that men are naturally stronger than women and that men can never really be women.
We might give those Russian women a run for their money with our big, burly women.
At the Concept 2 website, there is a current list of speed rankings of rowers from around the world (by event).
Though I rank somewhere in the middle for almost every event for men of my age, I rank in the top 5% of women rowers (and these women are elite athletes...and I am not).
Women’s sport is finish just like the crazy left wants it but they really want to exterminate women and replace them with transvestites
“By denying Cooper the right to participate in the female category”
Is that female category based on sex or gender identity?
Word to women:
Stop complaining. Stop playing the game.
And most women’s sports suck anyway. There — I said it. Prove me wrong. :-P
Science question related to weightlifters: how will a doctor treat “her” groin hernia?
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