Los Gatos transgender woman fights to join CrossFit strength competition
Just like countless other exercise fanatics, Chloie Jonsson wanted to test herself in a CrossFit strength competition. The popular fitness events culminate each summer with men and women being crowned as "The Fittest on Earth."
But Jonsson is a transgender woman and was told she would have to register as a man.
And now the intensely private Los Gatos woman has taken on a very public fight by filing a discrimination suit against CrossFit Inc., focusing national attention on the redrawing of lines about what it means to be a man and a woman in athletic competitions.
"I don't want to be the face of anything, even though that's the way it seems right now for the transgender community," said Jonsson, 34, a personal trainer. "I just wanted to do my thing."
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