New York Democrats have introduced a new bill to replace the term “mother” with “gestating parent” in state child custody and parental laws. The bill will also replace the term Father to non-gestating parent or parent in family court along with in domestic and education law, under the legislation, passed this week by state Democrats. “Paternity proceedings to determine a childs biological father would meanwhile become parentage cases, under the bill, which was rammed through the Assembly in March and of the Senate this week. A putative father also known as a deadbeat dad would now be called an alleged parent in official state records, under the bill, which was sponsored by liberals Sen. Luis Sepulveda (D-Bronx) and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) and will go to Gov. Kathy Hochuls desk for approval. Its woke culture run amok. Its one-upmanship, said state Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar, a former longtime state Senate and Assembly staffer. “Its an example of how out of tune the New York legislature is. Its an unnecessary and wasteful use of time, Kassar said He said the gender-neutral bill is likely to lead to a stampede of others, and called state lawmakers priorities backwards considering they were almost two months late in passing a state budget. Imagine people who are considering moving to New York seeing this and saying, Do I need this silliness? This is a really weird group of elected officials. It comes out of left field, he said. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman pounced. 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, Blakeman said in a statement. The insanity ends when Im Governor.” Republicans who voted against the Democratic sponsored bill called it outrageous. “At a time when New Yorkers are struggling with high taxes, rising costs, and public safety concerns, Albany Democrats are focused on redefining motherhood, Tenney said. This is yet another example of out-of-touch politicians prioritizing progressive ideology over the issues that actually matter to hardworking New Yorkers. State Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo (R-Staten Island) said it was another example of Democrats conjuring up problems. “New Yorkers arent walking down the street with their hands on top of their heads and saying, `Oh my God! The law says mother and father, said Pirozzolo, who voted against the bill. Other members of the Democrat-dominated legislature rolled their eyes as they signed off on the unwieldy phrasing, as the legislative session comes to a close for the fiscal year. The governor previously approved a measure passed by the legislature in 2023 requiring all laws, rules, regulations or resolutions to include gender-neutral terms such as they, them, or theirs instead of men/males or women/female. In 2018, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council approved a law allowing New Yorkers to select a third gender category on their birth certificates a non-binary identity category known as X. The post New York Democrats pass bill to replace ‘mother’ with ‘gestating parent’ appeared first on TIME.I.NG.