The Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman on March 1 demanding that he rescind his executive order barring transgender individuals from participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity at county-run facilities.
“The order’s immediate effect is to force sports leagues to make an impossible choice: discriminate against transgender women and girls, in violation of New York law, or find somewhere else to play,” wrote Sandra Park, who heads up the attorney general’s Civil Rights Bureau Office and signed the letter. The attorney general said the order violates New York’s civil and human rights law, and she also cited the Supreme Court’s 2020 landmark decision in which the court ruled that gender identity discrimination constitutes unlawful sex discrimination.
