Transgender powerlifters competing with women could 'destroy' female sports, competitors warn

Paul Bossi of the 100% Raw Powerlifting Federation discusses the significance of decision forcing USA Powerlifting to allow transgender athletes to participate in women's sports.

The 100% Raw Powerlifting Federation warned Monday that the sport could be in peril for female athletes following a court's decision requiring USA Powerlifting to allow transgender women to compete among biological females.

"It's terrible," president Paul Bossi told "Fox & Friends" Monday. "I'm pretty upset about it. A lot of the female powerlifters in our organization are pretty upset about this."

"The women worked really, really hard to get where they are and this change here, it's going to destroy not just powerlifting, but it's going to trickle down and destroy other sports as well." 

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USA Powerlifting must allow trans women to compete in female competitions. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Minnesota court, ruling in favor of transgender athlete JayCee Cooper last week, said the longstanding policy banning transgender athletes from competing in the women's category violated the Minnesota Human Rights Act on the premise of "separation and segregation."

Bossi said "there's no doubt" that female competitors facing off against a biological male athlete of the same age and experience would fall short.

"We had only one incident where a changed-gender female wanted to compete with us, and she came in and broke four world records. We had to reverse that. Our bylaws state you lift the way you are biologically born… " he said.

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