The New York state legislature this week passed a bill wiping the words “mother” and “father” from family court and domestic law, replacing them with clinical gender-neutral terminology.

Under the legislation, “mother” would be replaced with “gestating parent,” while “father” becomes “non-gestating parent.” Paternity proceedings to determine a child’s biological father would become “parentage” cases, and a “putative father” — commonly understood as a deadbeat dad — would be relabeled “an alleged parent” in official state records.

The measure was sponsored by Democratic State Sen. Luis Sepulveda and is being framed by supporters as an effort to make state law more “inclusive.” Critics say the bill is another example of Albany Democrats pushing language changes that erase traditional family terms from official government wording. It now heads to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk for her signature.

“Democrats led by Kathy Hochul have continued their declaration of war on New York families by canceling the loving terms of Mom and Dad and replacing them with ‘gestating and non-gestating parent,'” said Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman. “The insanity ends when I’m Governor.”

State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar, a former longtime legislative staffer, called the bill a symptom of a legislature badly out of touch with the public, particularly coming on the heels of a state budget that was passed nearly two months late. “It’s woke culture run amok. It’s one-upmanship,” he said. “Imagine people who are considering moving to New York seeing this and saying, ‘Do I need this silliness?'”

He predicted the bill will set off a cascade of copycat legislation. “This is a really weird group of elected officials. It comes out of left field,” he said.

Hochul, who has proudly branded herself New York’s “first mom governor,” sidestepped the question of whether she would sign it. “Well, I’m not familiar with what was introduced,” she said at an unrelated event in Brooklyn Wednesday. “I’ll take a look at it. This has been my practice for five years.”

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)