Mon Mar 6, 2023 – 6:22 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Last week, a gender-confused power lifter won a discrimination lawsuit against a national powerlifting organization, forcing the group to allow men and women to compete.
A biological man who refers to himself as “JayCee” Cooper and is a self-described “transgender woman” sued USA Powerlifting (USAPL) in 2021 for discrimination after the organization denied gender-confused men from competing against women, citing biological differences and fairness. On February 27, a Minnesota district judge signed a judgment summary that announced that “USAPL’s policy constitutes both public accommodation discrimination and discrimination in trade or business” as well as “sexual orientation discrimination.”
Cooper sued based on alleged violations of the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), claiming that the national organization was guilty of “sex and sexual discrimination in public accommodations, sex and sexual orientation discrimination in business,” and that “the Minnesota chapter of USAPL intentionally aided and abetted violations of the MHRA.” The defendants were found guilty of all charges except allegations that their so-called discrimination was conducted with malicious intent.
“By denying Cooper the right to participate in the female category, the category consistent with her [sic] self-identification, USAPL denied
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