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Transgender Woman Sues After CrossFit Bans Her From Competing As Female

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A transgender athlete and personal trainer is suing CrossFit for banning her from competing in the CrossFit Games.

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Transgender athlete Chloie Jonsson is suing CrossFit for $2.5 million in damages for not allowing her to compete in the CrossFit Games as a woman.

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

Jonsson says the state of California recognizes her as a woman and the fitness company should as well.

“The fundamental, ineluctable fact is that a male competitor who has a sex reassignment procedure still has a genetic makeup that confers a physical and physiological advantage over women,” CrossFit’s attorney wrote in a letter to Jonsson in September.

However, according to the lawsuit, Jonsson — who has identified herself as a female since her teenage years — had sexual reassignment surgery in 2006 and has been on female hormone therapy. “[Jonnson] doesn’t have an advantage over other women. She’s been on estrogen for such a long time,” her attorney, Waukeen McCoy, told CNN.

“She’s female,” McCoy said of Johnson. “She’s legally female. A corporation like CrossFit, they’re doing business in California. The law precludes from discrimination on gender identity.”

The lawsuit also alleges that CrossFit’s policy requiring individuals to compete in a their original birth gender would require transgender athletes to reveal their personal histories. In essence, that they’d have to “out” themselves, even if they sought personal privacy.

Jonsson seeks a reversal in the competition’s policies for both herself and “for the good for all transgendered people and athletes.”

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The idea that African homosexuality was a colonial import is a myth

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Christian and Islamic forces fought to eliminate the ‘unnatural damnation’ and left behind a trail of homophobia

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Ugandan pupils take part in an event organised by born-again Christians to celebrate the signing of a new anti-gay bill. Photograph: Stephen Wandera/AP

Africa has 54 countries and more than a billion people. One of the most ridiculous myths about it is that homosexuality did not exist in the continent until white men imported it. Robert Mugabe is one such propagator, calling homosexuality “un-African” and a “white disease”.

Throughout history people everywhere have explored and experimented with their sexuality. The desire to do so has never been confined to particular geographical locations. Its reach is universal. Yet today the myth of a pre-colonial sexual innocence, or more fittingly, ignorance, is used to endorse anti-gay legislation and stir up homophobia and persecution in Africa. In my father’s country, Nigeria, a new law passed in January carries a 14-year prison sentence for same-sex marriage and up to 10 years for membership or promotion of gay groups. In Uganda, the Anti-Homosexuality Act can impose life imprisonment. Latter-day evangelicals from the US are partly to blame for this continuing persecution, but so are Africa’s political leaders such as presidents Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, who use rabble-rousing anti-gay rhetoric to increase their power base and popularity.

While much has been written about this dangerous turn of events, little has been written about its origins. Two trailblazing studies in the field –Boy Wives and Female Husbands edited by Stephen O Murray and Will Roscoe, and Heterosexual Africa? by Marc Epprecht – demolish the revisionist arguments about Africa’s sexual history. From the 16th century onwards, homosexuality has been recorded in Africa by European missionaries, adventurers and officials who used it to reinforce ideas of African societies in need of Christian cleansing.

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