NY baseball team not allowed to go to nationals because of boycott of LGBT law

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's opposition to North Carolina's commonsense bathroom law may keep one New York community college's baseball team from going to the national championships. While Cuomo's office tried to distance itself from the issue, the college insists that his injunction leaves it no choice. Tragically, the governor will ban travel to a state, but still travels himself to Cuba and China, which have a much worse record on LGBT issues. In March, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 2, a law that declared multiple-stall restrooms in public facilities should be divided on the basis of biological sex. Shortly afterward, nearly 100 business leaders signed a letter rebuking the state and asking that they rescind the law. Cuomo responded by banning non-essential state travel to North Carolina.

This brings us to Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) in upstate New York, and its baseball team this season. It has a 24-8 record, and player Kyle Bestle told CBS News, "I think we have a real shot at going to the national championship." If they win the sub-regional championships this weekend, and the regional championships next weekend, they should be able to compete nationally. Except they won't be able to. Not because of player injury, not because of foul play, and not because of anything any player did. This is when Gov. Cuomo's ban comes back to bite him. When you cancel all "non-essential" travel to North Carolina, you also implicitly ban a state team from competing in a national championship. State Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin rebuked Cuomo for "political grandstanding." McLaughlin condemned the governor's double standard between North Carolina and Cuba. "Cuomo goes to Cuba and embraces and praises a Communist dictator that jails and/or kills gay people...but a baseball team can't go to North Carolina because of a law that says use the bathroom of your gender."

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