Girls’ sports teams and leagues will be barred from Nassau County’s 100 ballfields and athletic facilities — unless they agree to ban transgender competitors, The Post has learned.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman on Thursday will announce the bombshell executive order — believed to be the first of its kind in the nation — set to go into effect immediately.
“We are protecting girls’ right to compete against other girls. It makes no sense for biological boys who identify as transgender to compete against girls. It’s completely unfair,” Blakeman told The Post.
“Biological boys are faster, bigger and stronger. They have a physical advantage against women.”
Blakeman issued the order as the county is licensing with sports leagues to use local facilities — including a swimming center, baseball, softball and soccer fields, tennis courts and other venues — for the spring and summer, he explained.
The Eisenhower Aquatic Center in East Meadow is home to the annual Big East College Swimming championship.
Blakeman will officially announce the trans sporting ban at a press conference with some 200 female athletes, as well as Kim Russell, the former coach of women’s lacrosse at the ultra-progressive Oberlin College in Ohio, who was reassigned after speaking out against transgender girls competing against biological females.
The Republican Nassau County leader said the order only applies to female competitive sports — not co-ed sports, or where biological females want to compete against males.
The trans athletic controversy has raged in recent years, including in New Jersey, where trans swimmer Meghan Cortez-Field — who competed on the men’s Ramapo college team for three years — smashed a collegiate record for the second time in three months against biological females.
“Male swimmer from Ramapo College sets another school record in women’s event. Now tell me again the strides women have made when society applauds a man for pushing us off our own podium,” former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines wrote on X in protest following Cortez-Fields’ win.
Blakeman said he decided to ban biological boys who identify as transgender girls over the past month after hearing complaints from parents and female athletes in Nassau County.
“They voiced opposition. They think it’s discrimination against girls,” he said.
Under the order, representatives from sports leagues will have to affirm in writing that trans athletes are not competing in girls’ sports to obtain the right to use the county-run or owned athletic facilities or ballfields.
“Historically, women and girls have not received as many of the opportunities emanating from participation in sports as biological males,” the order states.
“The designation of separate sex-specific athletic teams or sports is necessary to maintain fairness for women’s athletic opportunities; the County of Nassau is committed to protecting Women’s and Girl’s rights to compete athletically and to realize the opportunities of participating in a fair sporting competition,” it states.
“Ordered, that Nassau County Department of Parks, Recreation and Museums shall not issue any permits for the use and occupancy of Nassau County Park’s property for the purposes of organizing a sporting event or competition that allows athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls to include biological males.”
The order further states that county officials may issue permits that allow teams or sporting contests for men or boys to include biological females.
“For the purpose of this Executive Order, an individual’s gender is defined as the individual’s biological sex at birth,” it reads.
The edict will apply to competitive sports for all groups.
