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Trans athlete sues USA Powerlifting over its policy barring her from competing as a woman JayCee Cooper says the organization's ban on transgender competitors "violates...the very spirit of sports." 15SHARES JayCee Cooper – Photo: Instagram. A transgender powerlifter is suing USA Powerlifting, the sport’s biggest U.S.-based organization, for its policy prohibiting her from competing as a woman. The lawsuit, filed earlier this week in Minnesota state court by the Minnesota-based organization Gender Justice on behalf of JayCee Cooper, argues that USA Powerlifting’s policy violated the Min...

15 Jan 2021 A man who is now living as a transgender woman is suing the largest U.S.-based powerlifting organization for not allowing him to compete in the women’s division. The Gender Justice group filed the lawsuit against USA Powerlifting on behalf of JayCee Cooper, citing that he is being discriminated against because of his “gender identity.” “It came as a surprise to me that when I applied to compete at my first competition, I was told that I couldn’t compete specifically because I’m a trans woman,” Cooper said at a news conference earlier this week. “I was gutted. I had...

Transgender athlete JayCee Cooper has filed a lawsuit against USA Powerlifting after the nation’s premier powerlifting federation banned her from competition citing her sex assigned at birth.

Transgender athlete sues USA Powerlifting over competition ban Sakshi Venkatraman © Provided by NBC News Transgender powerlifter JayCee Cooper is suing USA Powerlifting, the sport's biggest U.S.-based organization, after it barred her from competition on the basis of her gender identity. "It came as a surprise to me that when I applied to compete at my first competition, I was told that I couldn't compete specifically because I'm a trans woman," Cooper said at a news conference Tuesday. "I was gutted. I had been training for months and up until that point had experienced so ...

© Getty images USA Powerlifting (USAPL) will face a discrimination lawsuit brought by a transgender powerlifter who was banned from competing on the basis of her gender identity.  Minnesota-based advocacy group Gender Justice filed the lawsuit against the U.S.’s largest powerlifting organization on Tuesday on behalf of powerlifter JayCee Cooper, calling her competition ban a “blatantly transphobic policy” and “unacceptable.” “Trans athletes across the country deserve the same rights and protections as everyone else, and we deserve equitable opportunities to compete in the sport...