Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 10:30 a.m. (New York City time), 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 1
Committee: Committee on Women and Gender Equity
0:07 , Good morning and welcome to
0:07 today's New York City Council
0:10 vote for the committee on
0:12 woman and gender equity at
0:14 this time police silence all
0:16 electronic devices and no 1
0:18 approach a dais chair.
0:18 We are ready to begin. Good
0:23 morning, everyone. I'm council
0:24 Amanda farrow, chair of the
0:25 committee on women and gender
0:26 equity. Welcome to today's
0:27 vote, I'd first like t
0:29 oacknowledge my colleagues who
0:30 are present present council
0:33 member. We're joined by
0:34 counsel, mr cuban, thank you
0:35 all for being here,
0:38 and we are also joined by
0:40 council members and to swallow
0:42 , so's virtual today. The
0:43 committee will consider a
0:45 resolution 69, sponsored by
0:46 accounts member Tiffany carbon
0:48 unequivocally opposing
0:49 president trump's executive
0:51 order restricting protections
0:52 for transgender students and
0:53 calling on the New York stat
0:53 edepartment of education to
0:56 ensure that all schools in New
0:56 York City continued to uphold
0:58 policies that protect the
0:59 rights and dignity of
1:00 transgender and gender non
1:01 conforming students,
1:03 regardless of federal
1:04 directives
1:04 . Within months of taking
1:06 office, president trump rolled
1:07 out a series of executive
1:08 orders that openly targeted
1:10 transgender gender expensive
1:12 and intersects what followed
1:13 was a rapid escalation in st
1:16 legislation targeting
1:17 transgender people followed
1:17 with over 600 anti transgender
1:20 bills having been introduce
1:21 dby the end of 20 25 from
1:23 health care bands to funding
1:25 cuts to education restrictions
1:28 , this discriminatory policy
1:29 making is stripping vital
1:30 access to resources for
1:32 transgender people executive
1:33 order 1400 and passed on
1:37 January 29 2025, aims at
1:38 eliminating protections for
1:39 transgender students by
1:40 calling on federal agencies to
1:42 rescind and withhold funding
1:43 from k through 12 schools that
1:45 support transgender students.
1:48 Fortunately, New York City has
1:49 a number of shield laws that
1:50 protect trends that
1:51 transgender and gender
1:52 nonconforming students at
1:53 school as a City, we must
1:54 continue to uphold the rights
1:55 of transgender and gender non
1:57 conforming students and ensure
1:59 every student has access to a
2:00 safe, inclusive and affirming
2:03 education. I encourage my
2:04 fellow council members t
2:05 osupport resolution 69 wit
2:08 hthat, I'd like to turn it over
2:09 to the sponsor of the
2:10 resolution council burqa
2:11 cabana for her remarks. Thank
2:12 you so much chair, I think
2:14 it's already been said, but
2:16 the trump administration has
2:17 made it its priority, too
2:20 . Target trans engendered
2:22 gender, non kids, which the
2:23 supremeourt c put its weight
2:24 behind just this morning, and
2:26 it's executive order prevents
2:28 them from accessing bathrooms,
2:29 matching their gender identit
2:30 ytaking part in sports and
2:31 using the preferred names and
2:33 pronouns and so our City and
2:34 state must continue to uphol
2:36 dhuman rights laws, which
2:37 protect trans students from
2:39 discrimination, especially in
2:40 the face of federal threats.
2:42 We need to be 10 toes down on
2:43 the fact that we are going to
2:45 protect our children, period.
2:47 So thank you to my colleagues
2:49 for supporting this resolutio
2:50 nand I look forward to its
2:54 passage
2:54 . Thank you, councilman rick
2:55 urban finally, I'd like to
2:56 thank my own staffed and
2:57 curtain and josephine cares
2:58 sand the members of the women
3:00 and gender equity committee
3:00 staffs have senior committee
3:02 counsel julia goldsmith,
3:04 pinkham legislative policy
3:04 analyst katie selena and
3:08 financial analyst amy stauffer
3:09 , who worked to prepare this
3:14 meeting. Oh, hi, billy clark.
3:15 We are ready to begin the vot
3:20 e. Thank you. Good morning
3:20 ,william martin, committee
3:21 clerk roll call vote committee
3:22 on women and gender equity on
3:24 resolution 69 chair.
3:26 Farías. I probably what I
3:31 good yothers
3:32 . Congrats, bodi shulman.
3:36 Congrats
3:36 . Bodi al label
3:39 congratulations and vote I
3:43 vote? Aye
3:43 . Santos. So so I thank you
3:45 with a vote of five in the
3:46 affirmative, zero in the
3:48 negative and no abstentions
3:49 resolution has been approved
3:50 by the committee Madam chair
3:51 .that is a full committee
3:54 . Thank you to the committee
3:55 members for your votes