https://www.outsports.com/2019/2/1/18204036/usa-powerlifting-trans-athlete-policy-jaycee-cooper?fbclid=IwAR3NKXoDJZ7SJZaeknE3jlUaXpEMzGbKEOCY1ulgkdHLC24nkfkyYBr5Ago
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JayCee Cooper won a state women’s title after being barred from competing as a woman at USA Powerlifting events.
USA Powerlifting has banned all transgender women from competing as women, even as a trans powerlifter in Minnesota recently won a state championship with another association, setting a state record.
JayCee Cooper, a trans woman, had applied last year to compete in a recent USA Powerlifting event in Minnesota. In December her application was denied.
“Male-to-female transgenders are not allowed to compete as females in our static strength sports as it is a direct competitive advantage,” wrote USAPL Therapeutic Use Exemptions Committee Chair Kristopher Hunt in an email to Cooper.
Hunt followed up with Cooper in January with this explanation:
“Transgender male to female individuals having gone through male puberty confer an unfair competitive advantage over non-transgender females due to increased bone density and muscle mass from pubertal exposure to testosterone.”
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Pushback has finally started. Great.
Men in drag are not women, never will they be.
Self mutilation does not a woman make.
We do not need to pretend that insanity is normal.
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