Democrats in the New York Legislature have passed a child-custody bill that replaces terms such as “mother” and “father” with “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.”
This is the kind of Orwellian wordplay that sucks all of the humanity out of certain words. You have to wonder if that was the goal. If so, mission accomplished.
The New York Post reports:
Dems replace ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ in latest woke rewrite of NY lawMom’s not the word.A woke new bill erases the terms “mother” and “father” from state child custody and parental laws — a gender-neutral rewriting that’s expected to spark a flood of similarly clunky legislation.“Mother” would be replaced with “gestating parent” while “father” becomes “non-gestating parent” or “parent” in family court along with in domestic and education law, under the legislation, passed this week by state Democrats.“Paternity” proceedings to determine a child’s biological father would meanwhile become “parentage” cases, under the bill, which was rammed through the Assembly in March and of the Senate this week.A “putative father” — also known as a deadbeat dad — would now be called “an alleged parent” in official state records, under the bill, which was sponsored by liberals Sen. Luis Sepulveda (D-Bronx) and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) and will go to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk for approval.“It’s woke culture run amok. It’s one-upmanship,” said state Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar, a former longtime state Senate and Assembly staffer.“It’s an example of how out of tune the New York legislature is. It’s an unnecessary and wasteful use of time,” Kassar saidHe said the gender-neutral bill is likely to lead to a stampede of others, and called state lawmakers’ priorities backwards — considering they were almost two months late in passing a state budget.“Imagine people who are considering moving to New York seeing this and saying, ‘Do I need this silliness?’ This is a really weird group of elected officials. It comes out of left field,” he said.
I did some additional searching on this just to make sure it’s real.
Sure enough, CBS News in Albany covered it:
New York state Legislature passes bill removing gender-specific terms from custody lawsA bill surrounding state child custody and parental laws passed the State Assembly and Senate this week and now heads to the governor’s desk.The legislation would replace gender-specific terms like “mother,” “father,” and “paternity” used in places like family court with terms like “parentage,” “gestating parent,” and “non-gestating parent.”The bill aims to make custody law more inclusive for LGBTQ+ parents and families who use assisted reproduction or surrogacy.
FOX News covered it too. Utterly crazy.
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