Mom’s not the word.
New York state Democrats passed a bill to erase words like “mother” and “father” from Family Court Law — in the latest gender-neutral rewriting in the state’s official records.
“Mother” would be replaced with “gestating parent” while “father” becomes “non-gestating parent” and “paternity” proceedings would become “parentage” proceedings under the woke bill that was rammed through both houses of the state legislature this week.
A “putative father” in paternity proceedings would now be defined as “an alleged parent” under the bill, which was sponsored by liberals Sen. Luis Sepulveda (D-Bronx) and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) and goes to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk for approval.
Some members of the Democrat-dominated legislature rolled their eyes as they signed off on the clunky new phrasing, as the legislative session comes to a close for the fiscal year.
“I have a word we can use for this, ‘unnecessary,'” one Democratic lawmaker told The Post.
Democrat infighting had delayed approval of the massive $268 billion state budget by nearly two months before it was passed last week.
Hochul, who proudly wears the moniker of New York’s “first mom governor,” dodged on saying whether she supported the gender-neutral rewrite.
“Well, I’m not familiar with what was introduced,” Hochul said at an unrelated event in Brooklyn Wednesday. “I’ll take a look at it. This has been my practice for five years.”
A memo accompanying the bill claims the change is necessary because it brings state law into line with generally accepted standards for how family courts handle situations such as surrogacy cases.
“Courts have recognized how non-biological, non-adoptive parents can be treated as legal parents in certain circumstances,” the memo notes.
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