USA Powerlifting Ban on Trans Athletes Violates Minnesota Law

USA Powerlifting’s blanket prohibition on transgender women from competing in its women’s division violates Minnesota’s Human Rights Act, the state’s high court said.

But there’s a genuine dispute of fact as to whether the organization’s categorical ban on transgender female athletes has a legitimate business purpose to avoid liability under the statute, the Minnesota Supreme Court said in a Wednesday opinion. The district court “went too far” in its grant of summary judgment to plaintiff JayCee Cooper on the claim of discrimination in business; the court of appeals also went too far in the scope of its reversal, the ...