Transgender athlete sues CrossFit for banning her from competing as female

CNN | Madison Park



A transgender woman prohibited from competing in a strength competition as a female is suing the fitness company sponsoring the competition, seeking $2.5 million in damages.

Chloie Jonsson, a personal trainer, charges the CrossFit company with discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress and unfair competition in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Santa Cruz, California.

While her lawyer calls it a case of discrimination against transgender people, CrossFit's lawyer calls it protecting the competition.

Last year, Jonsson sought to compete in the CrossFit Games, a contest aimed at determining the fittest man and woman.

According to the lawsuit, Jonsson has identified herself as a female since her teenage years and is legally recognized by California as a woman. She had sexual reassignment surgery in 2006 and has been on female hormone therapy, according to her lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges that a CrossFit teammate of Jonsson's sent an anonymous e-mail to the games organizers asking about transgender athletes in the competition. CrossFit determined that competitors in the event had to compete in the gender of their birth.

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http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/transgender-woman-sues-crossfit-over-competition1-030714

She had to register as her "assigned gender at birth?!?" WTF? Never heard of this sort of stipulation anywhere before.

The CNN report here: https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,160713.msg1375854.html#new

If Crossfit's case is really going to rest on protecting the competition then they should lose pretty badly. There are plenty of sports organizations who already seem to understand that a transwoman on hormones who has had SRS has really zero advantages over a ciswoman, but I guess they missed the memo.

Crossfit is a terrible exercise regime and she should be glad they didn't allow her to compete, totally a blessing in disguise. One of the most dangerous fads out there today!

She is 5' 4" - where is that supposed advantage of having a "male" body.  Some of the online news comments are so uninformed.

so...transman with body builder physique has to compete in the women's part to make it fair?



I would laugh to see that reaction.

We've been down this road before, unfortunately. You'd think that the case of Renée Richards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards would have been enough.