"The Long Island Roller Rebels, a roller derby league that has both cis and trans women members, challenged the local law as discriminatory. That's the same read as LGBTQ+ advocates and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who filed an ongoing challenge to the county ordinance last year. A court had struck down an executive order enacting the ban, but the county legislature responded by passing a law with the same effect."
""The power differential between adult individuals who are born male and those born female is substantial and therefore may be more dangerous," Cozzens's decision reads. "This would create additional risk to the individual and potential liability creating costs to the municipality. The municipality is not obligated to provide a recreational setting for each and every individual residing within its confines. The use of County facilities is based on the priorities and needs of the population as determined by their elected leaders.""
A Nassau County law bars transgender female athletes from competing in female-only sports at county public facilities while allowing participation in coed and male sports. The law requires teams seeking permits for county athletic facilities to classify players by biological sex assigned at birth. A roller derby league with cis and trans women members and state officials challenged the ordinance as discriminatory, and prior court action struck down an earlier executive order enacting the ban. The county legislature enacted a law with the same effect. The court upheld the law citing safety, power differentials, potential municipal liability, and priorities set by elected leaders, and LGBTQ groups warned of harmful consequences for trans youth.
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