Women’s roller derby league sues suburban New York county over ban on transgender female athletes

By PHILIP MARCELO
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NEW YORK (AP) — A ladies’s curler derby league has requested a New York court docket to invalidate a Republican official’s order banning feminine sports activities groups with transgender athletes from utilizing county services, saying it’s discriminatory and violates state regulation. The lawsuit filed Monday by the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Lengthy Island Curler Rebels argues that the state’s human rights and civil rights statutes explicitly prohibits discrimination primarily based on gender id. It’s the most recent salvo within the more and more litigious battle over an govt order issued by Nassau County Government Bruce Blakeman final month.