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Transgender powerlifter JayCee Cooper of Minnesota has filed a discrimination lawsuit against USA Powerlifting and the association's state chapter, alleging its policies preventing transgender women from competition are contrary to state anti-discrimination law and the guidelines of international powerlifting itself. "Trans athletes across the country deserve the same rights and protections as everyone else, and we deserve equitable opportunities to compete in the sports we love," Cooper said when announcing the lawsuit Tuesday, January 12. "I jumped through every hoop, cleared every hurdle ...

USA Powerlifting announced this week it will add a gender-neutral MX competition category at local, state, and regional levels starting January 1 — one of four new categories it is adding as it seeks to become more inclusive for athletes who live outside sports' historically rigid gender binary or have physical conditions that makes it difficult or impossible for them to compete under pre-existing rules. "I'm thrilled," Ardel Thomas, the LGBT Powerlifting Union's intersex and nonbinary outreach representative, told the Bay Area Reporter. "I think it shows forward motion on their part. I fee...

“Forcing trans athletes into a separate, third category is harmful ‘othering’ that only furthers the isolation and discrimination trans athletes face,” said Anne Lieberman, Athlete Ally’s Director of Policy and Programs. “It lumps trans athletes and nonbinary athletes together, when they should have the opportunity to choose the category in which they’d like to compete.  It also deprives all athletes of what we know to be the best part of sport — learning from and growing with a diverse group of teammates, and building friendships that last lifetimes.  There must be a pathwa...