Trans women can compete in USA Powerlifting, ruling says

Transgender women can now compete in USA Powerlifting after a court ruled in favor of athlete JayCee Cooper, who filed a discrimination case against the federation after she was banned from competing in women's events. 

USA Powerlifting must revise its existing policy pertaining to trans women in its events by next Monday — two weeks after the initial ruling. CBS News has reached out to USA Powerlifting for a statement, but has yet to hear back.

"The harm is in making a person pretend to be something different, the implicit message being that who they are is less than," wrote Judge Patrick C. Diamond in the ruling.