The Nassau County County legislature accredited a measure Monday to reinstate a ban on transgender athletes from taking part in girls and women’ sports activities at county-owned athletic services.
County Govt Bruce Blakeman will quickly signal the laws into regulation.
“I’m gratified that the Republican Majority within the legislature voted in favor of this widespread sense measure to guard the integrity of girls’s sports activities and the security of girls members,” Blakeman, a Republican, mentioned.
The measure handed alongside get together traces 12-5 with the Republican majority voting in favor and Democrats in opposition to it. Two different Democrats — Siela Bynoe and Delia DeRiggi Whitton — have been absent.
It comes after a state Supreme Courtroom choose dominated final month that Blakeman didn’t have the authority to impose such a prohibition by way of government order, and with out the legislature’s approval.
“It is a hateful and blatantly unlawful invoice. If signed into regulation, we’ll see Nassau in court docket – once more,” the New York Civil Liberties Union mentioned in a press release.
State Legal professional Common James additionally beforehand slammed such a ban as “discriminatory,” “transphobic” and “unlawful.”
However supporters of the ban say organic males who determine as transgender have unfair bodily benefits whereas competing in opposition to girls
One of many world’s most well-known transgender individuals — Caitlyn Jenner — helps the ban for that purpose.
The previous athlete, né Bruce Jenner, who received the gold medal within the decathlon on the 1976 Olympics, appeared alongside Blakeman at a March press convention.
“The distinction between women and men exists primarily based on DNA, or your chromosomes…there are large benefits and simple variations from male improvement, mainly going by male puberty,” Jenner mentioned.
“The answer is straightforward: in the case of athletics… you must compete within the organic intercourse by which you have been born.”
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