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 ...