New York Mayor Eric Adams collapsed in a poll and tried to lower the favor of his rival Zoran Mamdani, Mayor Eric Adams said he would ask the Department of Education to roll back the city’s policies to ensure transgender students can use bathrooms tailored to their gender identity.
Standing outside the mosque at a campaign stop in Harlem on September 17th, Adams launched a rambling broadside against Mamdani, his democratic socialist allies, and left-leaning voters. Hakeem JeffriesIt was ridded as a gentleman and transplant.
In his remarks, Adams called Mamdani’s supporters “disrespectful” and accused them of bringing “a very negative and troublesome energy.” He then turned a fire around Mamdani and DSA members over policy positions, and ultimately focused on what he called a “genderless bathroom.”
“This city is not an experiment.” Adams said. “Everyone is grabbing the toes about this… I’m not going to do that. I’m not for the boys who go to the same bathroom as the little girl. I don’t support it. And I’m not going to succumb to it.”
Even on the right New York Post The group said LGBTQ students should have “full access to facilities that reflect gender,” but noted that there is no record of DSA gaining status in genderless bathrooms.
The next day, at an unrelated press conference outside the UN headquarters, Adams continued to discuss the school bathroom and attacked a little more. settlement.
“We always respect how we identify ourselves,” Adams apparently remembers that he is still a Democrat and that the general Democrat attitude towards transgender people – what could exist in a particular particular issue isn’t rooted in overt hostility.
However, Adams added, “I don’t think a safe environment allows boys and girls to use the same facility at the same time.”
The mayor also took a jab in Mamdani’s Muslim faith, suggesting that his attitude towards accessing transgender toilets was at odds with Islamic teachings and fellow Muslims. “The Muslims I know don’t believe boys should go into the bathroom of a little girl,” Adams said. “They believe there should be separation.”
Adams claimed he would explore whether he had enforcement power to change the school’s bathroom policy. “I’m going to use all the force I need to stop it,” he said.
Under current policies complying with New York’s human rights law, transgender students must be permitted to use facilities that “conform to the gender identity claimed at school.” The school may offer private alternatives, but it cannot force trans students to students without consent or if it contradicts their identity.
As S. Baum reported on Erin Reed’s Substack Morning ErinAdams’ comments followed a letter to city education staff by Craig Teynor, assistant secretary and deputy director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Office.
The letter reflects similar notices sent to other Pro-LGBTQ districts, requesting revised guidelines for New York City public schools for transgender and gender expansion students by September 19th.
The department banned transgender students from bathrooms that do not suit their gender at birth, banned them from women’s sports teams, and ordered schools to use the “biology-based” definition of men and women under Title IX. The letter warned that failure to comply could cost $35 million in federal grants, including Magnet School funds.
In response, Mamdani wrote Blue skiing it is”[a]It is dangerous to hear the mayor reflect the transphobic bias that comes from the Trump administration. ”
“It is completely at odds with the values of our city, and there is another reason why his single, dishonorable terminology cannot be over soon,” writes Mamdani.
Adams faces long shot reelection odds to skip the Democratic primary and run as an independent. He currently votes for fourth in the four-way race behind Mamdani, former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Swa.
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Source: Metro Weekly – www.metroweekly.com
