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Jenner, who came out as transgender in 2015, alleged that trans women are âtaking valuable opportunitiesâ from cisgender women and âcausing physical harm.â
Former Olympic gold medal champion Caitlyn Jenner has come out in support of a New York countyâs ban on girls’ and women’s sports teams that include transgender athletes from using the countyâs public facilities, saying that transgender athletes should not be able to compete in womenâs sports.
âTrans women are competing against women, taking valuable opportunities for the long protected class under Title IX and causing physical harm,â Jenner said Monday at a news conference in Mineola, New York, with Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who signed the executive order on Feb. 22.
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Jenner, 74, who won the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Olympics, came out as a transgender woman in 2015 and has been a vocal critic of trans women competing in womenâs sports since 2021. Since 2020, half of states have passed laws or regulations that ban trans student athletes from competing on womenâs school sports teams, according to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ think tank.
In a post on X Saturday, Jenner said she felt compelled to speak about the issue as a trans woman to show that âitâs biology, it is not about exclusion or not being tolerant.â
In an interview with NBC News, David Kilmnick, president of the New York LGBT Network, an LGBTQ nonprofit on Long Island and in Queens, called Jennerâs support of the order a âbaffling contradiction to her own identity.â He said he fears that a high-profile athlete throwing their support behind Blakemanâs ban may contribute to bullying of trans youths.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the stateâs attorney general, Letitia James, both Democrats, have spoken out against the ban, and accused Blakeman, a Republican, of bullying transgender youths.
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James challenged the order in court March 1 with a âcease and desist letter,â demanding that Blakeman rescind the order, arguing that it violates the stateâs anti-discrimination laws. In it, she called the order âtransphobicâ and said it subjects womenâs and girlsâ sports teams to âinvasive questioning.â
Blakeman’s legal team filed its own lawsuit on March 5 alleging that Jamesâ âcease and desistâ letter violates the 14th Amendmentâs equal protection clause.
âNot only was the executive order legal, but we had an obligation to defend it,â Blakeman said Monday.
Blakeman has defended the ban â which covers more than 100 county-owned facilities â as necessary to protect cisgender girls and women from getting hurt while playing sports. The measure does not apply to men’s sports teams.
The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Nassau County last week, alleging Blakemanâs executive order discriminates on the basis of gender identity.
The NYCLU is representing a Nassau County womenâs roller derby league that welcomes trans women and would be barred from using the countyâs facilities by Blakemanâs executive order.
âTrans people who play sports need support and affirmation, not to be a political target,â NYCLU attorney Gabriella Larios said in a statement. âNassau Countyâs cynical attempt to shut them out of public spaces is a blatant violation of our stateâs civil and human rights laws.â
Blakeman said Monday that the same legal team defending against Jamesâ âcease and desistâ letter will be fighting the NYCLUâs lawsuit.
Kilmnick of the New York LGBT Network said athletic governing bodies should be free to determine their own standards on the question of how and whether trans women should compete against cisgender women, not the government.
âItâs very dangerous when the government starts to ban groups of people and tells them what they can and cannot do,â Kilmnick said. âWeâve already gone down that road in our history, and itâs dangerous to repeat that.â