.sagesteele calls a Minnesota court's ruling “unfair to women” for forcing USA Powerlifting to allow men who claim womanhood to compete against women.
that USA Powerlifting’s rule banning biological men from competing against natural-born women violates a Minnesota state anti-discrimination law that maintains he can compete under his “chosen gender.”
In Feb., District Court Judge Patrick Diamond, appointed to the bench by liberal Democrat Gov. Mark Dayton in 2012, ruled in favor of Cooper’s claims and ordered the sports authority to change its rules to allow Cooper to compete as a woman. “Our position has been aimed at balancing the needs of cis- and transgender women whose capacities differ significantly in purely strength sports,” USA Powerlifting President Larry MaileMany agreed with Musk and Steele and decried the judge’s ruling:
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