Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed an executive order Thursday that bans transgender athletes from participating on women’s teams not aligned with the sex they were assigned at birth.
The ban would prohibit girls’ and women’s teams with transgender athletes from using Nassau County facilities.
Blakeman says this order is not meant to exclude anyone – but to protect the integrity of women’s sports.
New York LGBT Network president Dr. David Kilmnick calls the ban a discriminatory move that perpetuates harmful stereotypes and exclusion.
Blakeman signs an executive order banning transgender athletes from some teams, events at county facilities
