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Legislation to protect and support transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary New Yorkers
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Speaker Adrienne E. Adams introduces a series of bills and resolutions aimed at improving resources and ensuring protections for transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary New Yorkers. These actions are presented as critical in light of threats to civil rights at the national level.
- Resolutions calling for state legislation to protect sensitive health information, including gender-affirming care.
- Introduction 246-A: Requires agencies to include 'X' as a gender identity option on forms.
- Introductions 1204-A, 1203-A, 1201-A, and 1200-A: Address health inequities, resource assessment for migrants, expansion of private right of action for medical care interference, and public information on legal rights and resources for transgender individuals.
Adrienne E. Adams
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Finally, we'll vote on several bills aiming to improve resources and ensure protections for transgender, gender nonconforming, and non binary New Yorkers.
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These actions are even more critical as the Trump administration continues to threaten the civil rights of trans and gender nonconforming people across the nation.
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Resolution seven ninety three sponsored by council member Lynn Schulman calls up calls on the New York state legislature to pass and the governor to sign s dot sixteen thirty three a dot twenty six thirteen, which would provide additional additional protections for the sensitive health information of patients, including information related to abortion or gender affirming care.
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Resolution seven eighty one, also sponsored by council member Schulman, would call on the New York state legislature to introduce and pass, and the governor to sign legislation to prohibit out of state access to prescription monitoring programs data for certain medications including abortion medications, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers.
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Resolution seven seventy four, sponsored by council member Hudson, calls on the New York State Department of Health to implement regulations requiring hospitals in New York City to adhere to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health Standards of Care eight to ensure medical professionals can provide high quality and ethical treatment for individuals with gender dysphoria.
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Resolution seventy seventy one, sponsored by council member Eric Bacher calls on the New York state governor to sign s dot nine twenty nine a, a dot 2,141, which would extend protections over personal health information.
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Thank you to our staff member Christy Dwyer.
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Introduction two forty six a sponsored by council member Hudson would require agencies that provide social services and collect demographic information through form documents from residents seeking services to update their forms where practicable to include x as an option when gender identity information is collected.
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Thank you to our staff members, Jayas Rikadapathy, Erica Cohen, and Rachel Cordero.
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Introduction 12 o '4 a sponsored by council member Chi Osei would require the city's health commissioner to conduct an assessment on health inequities affecting transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex individuals.
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DOHMH would be required to develop a health agenda to address these inequities.
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Introduction 12 o three a, also sponsored by council member Osei, would require the mayor's office of immigrant affairs to conduct an assessment of the available resources and any service gaps in the city for newly arrived migrants who are transgender, gender nonconforming, or nonbinary, and intersex.
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Introduction 12 o one a sponsored by council member Shehana Hanif would expand a person's private right of action for interference with reproductive or endocrine medical care to explicitly include all forms of gender reforming care.
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The bill would take effects immediately.
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And introduction 1,200 a, sponsored by council member Tiffany Caban, would require the mayor's office of equity and racial justice to provide publicly available information on the legal rights and resources available to transgender, gender nonconforming, non binary individuals.
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The bill would also require the cities to submit a report on the public information provided and engage in a media campaign regarding this public information.
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Thank you to our staff members Julia Goldsmith Pinkham, Christie Dwyer, and Sahar Mozami.
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Thank you all for your attention.
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Now I turn it back over to our majority leader.