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New York|N.Y. County Order Targets Transgender Women and Girls in Sports

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N.Y. COUNTY ORDER TARGETS TRANSGENDER WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SPORTS

A new ban in Long Island’s Nassau County prohibits girls’ and women’s teams with
transgender athletes from competing at public facilities, the latest effort in a
nationwide push to limit participation in women’s sports.

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Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, said the ban would affect thousands
of teams that competed in the area.Credit...Anna Watts for The New York Times


By Claire Fahy

Feb. 22, 2024Updated 5:11 p.m. ET

A county on Long Island, N.Y., is making more than 100 facilities off limits to
athletic organizations that allow transgender girls and women to compete on
teams that match their gender identity, staking out a position in the nationwide
debate over how and when transgender athletes can participate in women’s sports.

Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive and a Republican, signed an
executive order on Thursday requiring any sports league or organization that
wants to use a county parks department facility to “expressly designate” its
teams as male, female or coed based on members’ assigned sex at birth.

The policy takes effect immediately and does not require legislative approval.
The governor, the New York attorney general and the New York chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union said the ban was illegal and suggested legal
action could be imminent.

The move was the latest in a series of efforts by officials across the country
to bar transgender athletes from competing on teams that match their gender
identity, particularly in girls’ and women’s sports. In the past several years,
more than 20 states have passed laws restricting transgender athletes from
playing school sports on teams that do not match the sex they were assigned at
birth, according to ESPN.



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And last year, the House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans,
approved a bill that would bar transgender women and girls from competing in
women’s sports. The bill has no chance of passing the Senate, which is
controlled by Democrats, or being signed by President Biden.

According to Mr. Blakeman’s office, the executive action signed on Thursday,
which does not restrict transgender boys and men from competing on boys’ and
men’s teams, will affect thousands of teams across all levels that compete at
Nassau County facilities.

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Claire Fahy reports on New York City and the surrounding area for The Times. She
can be reached at claire.fahy@nytimes.com. More about Claire Fahy

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 23, 2024, Section A, Page 14
of the New York edition with the headline: Long Island County Bans Trans Women
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