{"id":255388,"date":"2026-06-04T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255388\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:55:08","slug":"ny-assembly-sends-bill-to-hochuls-desk-to-replace-gender-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255388\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Assembly sends bill to Hochul’s desk to replace gender terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new bill passed by the New York<\/a> state legislature on Tuesday is heading to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s<\/a> desk, and it seeks to switch language in several laws to so-called \u201cgender neutral language.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Should Hochul sign off, \u201cmother\u201d and \u201cfather\u201d would be switched to \u201cgestating\u201d and \u201cnon-gestating\u201d parent, respectively, and \u201cpaternity\u201d and \u201cfiliation\u201d would be changed to \u201cparentage.\u201d\u00a0For the purpose of family court proceedings, \u201cputative father,\u201d the purported father<\/a> of a child, would be changed to \u201calleged parent.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Democratic-controlled Assembly first passed the amendment in March, and the state Senate gave its approval on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, Hochul has 10 days to either sign the changes into law or veto the legislation. If approved, the changes would take effect Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

If signed by Hochul, the bill would revise parental terminology across multiple sections of New York law but would not alter existing parental rights, obligations, or family court.<\/p>\n

Empire State Democrats argue the measure modernizes New York law to reflect the realities of same-sex couples, adoptive families, surrogacy arrangements, and other family structures recognized in the state. The bill\u2019s sponsor, Democratic state Sen. Luis Sepulveda of the Bronx, has argued that the changes are intended to align statutory language with existing court decisions and family practices.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republicans were quick to criticize the legislation, arguing that lawmakers should focus on affordability<\/a>, public safety, and other issues facing New Yorkers rather than rewriting legal terminology.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Conner Dunleavy, a Republican candidate challenging the chair of the state Assembly\u2019s judicial committee who approved the bill, told the Washington Examiner the state legislature\u2019s move \u201cserves to undermine our families.\u201d He said New York families are facing bigger challenges than legal terminology.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Their] priorities are totally out of whack,\u201d Dunleavy said. \u201cThey\u2019re focused on things like removing the words mother and father from state law and replacing them with ridiculous terms like gestating and non-gestating parent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not addressing our affordability crisis that we definitely have in the state, it\u2019s not addressing our record-high taxes, it\u2019s not addressing the insane costs of utilities, it\u2019s doing nothing to help families, and it\u2019s doing everything to erase us from the picture,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Dunleavy said Republicans and New Yorkers should oppose the bill and stop Hochul from signing the bill into law, but said, \u201cif push comes to shove, I would have to guess the governor would sign this into law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman, who is backed by President Donald Trump, called the effort a \u201cwar\u201d on families<\/a> while also promoting his campaign.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDemocrats led by Kathy Hochul have continued their declaration of war on New York families by canceling the loving terms of Mom and Dad and replacing them with \u2018gestating and non-gestating parent,\u2019\u201d he said in a statement, according to<\/a> the New York Post. \u201cThe insanity ends when I\u2019m Governor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Washington Examiner reached out to Hochul for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new bill passed by the New York state legislature on Tuesday is heading to Democratic Gov. Kathy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4683,22933,426,99497,9,11,10,49,51,50,96444,35417],"class_list":["post-255388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-family","tag-gender-issues","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-lgbt-issues","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-parental-rights","tag-state-legislatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}