Nassau County banning transgender athletes from competing in female sports at its facilities

MINEOLA, N.Y. - Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman Thursday signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in girls and women's sports at county facilities. He said the ban is needed to be fair to 'biologically female' athletes. There was instant outrage by trans rights advocates. Critics blasted the order as unnecessary, divisive, illegal and hurtful to already at-risk kids.

They think differently. They feel differently. They are women. They are women, they are not men.' 'This is a matter of respect, human rights, about preventing suicide in the adolescent transgender population,' non-binary rights advocate Zoe Clandorf said. Under the order, sports leagues now must submit documentation of their players' biological sex at birth. Blakeman said it's not a partisan issue and claims it was promoted by parents' concerns.

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