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"  CrossFit may rank amongst this decade&amp;#039;s buzziest boutique fitness fads, but the cult-fave workout empire is now coming under legal fire for a not-so-progressive stance on gender.  Chloie Jonnson, a transgender woman, requested to compete in the very popular CrossFit Games with other female competitors\u2014only to be shot down by the CF higher-ups. Now, she&amp;#039;s suing them for $2.5 million in a civil rights case.  Jonnson received a letter in response to her request, which TMZ has obtained. It states that &amp;quot;based upon [Chloie] being born as a male, she will need to compete in the Men&amp;#039;s Division...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.&amp;quot;  It continues, &amp;quot;Our decision has nothing to do with &amp;#039;ignorance&amp;#039; or being bigots\u2014it has to do with a very real understanding of the human genome, of fundamental biology, that you are either intentionally ignoring or missed in high school.&amp;quot; Nasty (and totally unnecessary) jibes aside, who is the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; party in this situation? Even if CrossFit maintains that Jonnson has a physiological advantage over other women, it seems to be an emotional disadvantage to alienate her as the only non-male competitor (though we&amp;#039;ll venture a guess to say she would kick ass). CrossFit insists that transgender athletes will be &amp;quot;welcomed with open arms in this community.&amp;quot; If that&amp;#039;s the case, then maybe they should have a better option for Jonnson and her transgender peers when it comes to competing\u2014and refrain from snarking on Jonnson&amp;#039;s high school education, for starters. Related: I&amp;#039;m a Trans Woman, But Please Stop Asking About my Genitalia Related: &amp;#039;Boys Don&amp;#039;t Cry&amp;#039; Director Kimberly Peirce on 20 Years of Queer Culture Image: via Facebook "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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