Blakeman’s foul ball

Last week, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman saw a fellow Republican he backed lose a congressional race. Yesterday, Blakeman lost his marbles in signing a worthless and illegal document purporting to ban athletes who are transgender girls or transgender women from participating in any sporting event or competition at a county-owned facility, such as pools, beaches, gyms and athletic fields.

The paper, entitled “An Executive Order for Fairness for Women and Girls in Sports,” is all about unfairness and illegality in directing the county Department of Parks, Recreation & Museums to not issue permits for training, practice, scrimmages or meets to female teams that include transgender girls or transgender women.

However, Blakeman’s supposed ban does not bar male teams from including transgender boys or transgender men.

As we see it, there are two kinds of illegal discrimination at play here (pun intended). The order is contrary to established law by discriminating against the protected trans community’s right to use public facilities. And by only putting the prohibition on female teams, and not male teams, Blakeman is committing sex discrimination.

Blakeman admitted that he knows of no such players and teams using county-run parks. What he does know is that he’ll get lots of attention for himself by fighting a problem that does not exist and that animates too many people in his party.

So who takes this nonsense to court to quickly knock it down? The NYCLU? State Attorney General Tish James? The state Division of Human Rights? Please hurry up.