USA Powerlifting says the ruling – that keeping Joel "JayCee" Cooper, a man, from competing against women in women's powerlifting is "facially discriminatory" under the Minnesota Human Rights Act – is only a partial victory for the transgender agenda.
While Cooper's attorneys believe they won on the most important legal claim and that further proceedings will not change the ultimate outcome, USA Powerlifting looks forward to telling a jury its legitimate reasons for excluding men from competing in the women's division.
Steve McConkey of 4 WINDS USA says the justices are "trying to please the liberal Democrat base" that appointed them.
Minnesota has seven Supreme Court justices who were all appointed by Democratic governors.
"The only maybe highlight … is they're going to send it back down to the lower courts to determine if it affects the business of USA Powerlifting," McConkey tells AFN.
He predicts wins in two similar cases from other states that are on their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"If [Cooper's case is] sent up to U.S. Supreme Court, then that's a definite downhill for the rest of the holdouts like Minnesota and California," says McConkey.
Meanwhile, he thinks parents in Minnesota are starting to push back against the state's "radical" leaders like Governor Tim Walz (D) and Attorney General Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress.
"They've been trending, but at the same time, parents are starting to speak up a little bit more," McConkey relays. "A lot of schools got together and wrote a letter to the state high school association."
Donald Trump's administration had given the state until October 10 – which landed amid a federal government shutdown – to adopt policies banning male athletes from girls' sports, but school board members and candidates across the state dug in their heels for transgender students.
Parents, however, are saying that male athletes should not be competing with the females.
