A student gymnast at the University of Minnesota is suing the school for sex-based discrimination after it cut the men’s varsity gymnastics team because it believes too many men participate in campus sports given that female students outnumber males. The complaint initiating the lawsuit, Ng v. Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota, case number 21-cv-2404, was filed last week in U.S. District Court in the District of Minnesota. Evan Ng is being represented free of charge by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a Sacramento-based nonprofit public interest law firm, with the assistance of attorney Samuel Diehl of CrossCastle PLLC. Ng, 19, has been a competitive gymnast since he was six years old. By the age of nine, he was competing on the national Future Stars Junior Elite (JE) team and became a five-time JE national qualifier and an all-around Regional Champion in 2019. “It’s a sport like no other,” …