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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Johnson partially reverses the district court's grant of summary judgment to the transgender weightlifter on her discrimination claims against the powerlifting competition sponsor, affirms its grant of summary judgment to the competition sponsor's purported Minnesota branch and reverses its orders for injunctive relief. Issues of material fact remain as to whether the competition sponsor excluded the weightlifter from its competitions because she was transgender, as well as whether it excluded her for a legitimate business purpose, namely its argument that having gone through male puberty, she would have an unfair competitive advantage due to increased bone density and muscle mass. No questions of material fact remain, however, as to the non-existence of the purported Minnesota branch of the sponsor. Reversed.