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Council Member Inna Vernikov opposes transgender rights legislation package
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Council Member Inna Vernikov expresses strong opposition to a package of bills and resolutions related to transgender rights and gender-affirming care for minors. She argues that these measures could negatively affect parental rights and encourage minors to make irreversible decisions about their bodies.
- Vernikov criticizes Resolution 774, which she claims endorses hormone therapy for 14-year-olds
- She asserts that biological males should not compete in women's sports
- The council member characterizes the legislation as prioritizing a "vocal minority" over solving "real issues for the majority"
Inna Vernikov
0:42:46
Thank you.
0:42:46
The package of bills and resolutions being pushed through today is riddled with language that will negatively affect the rights of parents to be involved in their children's medical decisions and encourage impressionable minors to make life altering irreversible choices about their body.
0:43:03
Let me be clear, I am not here to judge how consenting adults choose to live their lives, but don't bring that agenda into our public schools, our libraries, and public spaces, and don't force it onto our children.
0:43:16
We must protect minors from being coerced into life altering treatments, especially when they're too young to legally drink, drive, smoke, enlist in the military, or get a tattoo.
0:43:27
I'm particularly disturbed by RESO seven seventy four, which endorses the standard of an organization that supports the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for 14 year olds.
0:43:38
That's not care.
0:43:39
It's child abuse and experimentation on vulnerable minors.
0:43:43
Above all, we need to draw the line where this ideology begins to endanger women and girls.
0:43:49
Biological males should not be competing in women's sports, period.
0:43:53
They will always have an unfair physical advantage over biological women no matter how they identify.
0:44:00
This is reckless, irresponsible, and will be detrimental to women and children.
0:44:05
New Yorkers should be represented by a council that prioritizes solving real issues for the majority over virtue signaling for a vocal minority.
0:44:13
Thank you.