What's happening
This bill requires New York schools to establish policies ensuring equal treatment, privacy, and participation for transgender and gender non-conforming students.
Why it matters
Mandates school staff use students’ chosen names and pronouns. even if official documents or records show a different name or sex, eliminating barriers like medical documentation or legal paperwork for recognition.
Requires access to facilities and activities based on gender identity. , ensuring transgender and gender non-conforming students can participate in sports, use restrooms, and join overnight trips that align with their identity, which can impact physical and emotional safety, inclusion, and school engagement.
Strengthens privacy protections. by limiting disclosure of a student’s transgender or gender non-conforming status—including birth name or assigned sex—and allowing students to correct records that are inaccurate or violate their privacy, reducing risks of discrimination or outing.
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Protect Transgender Students' Rights
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- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Requires the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Brad Hoylman-Sigal
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1592
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the board of education and the trustees or sole trustee of every school district to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender or gender non-conforming students
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 13 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
6. Policies and procedures that ensure that schools do not treat a transgender or gender non-conforming student differently from the way they treat other students of the same gender identity or gender expression that include, but are not limited to policies which:
a. ensure that schools and school employees treat students consistently with their gender identity or expression, including using pronouns and names consistent with the student's gender identity or expression, even if their education records or identification documents indicate a different sex. Schools shall not require that students obtain a medical diagnosis, treatment, or identification documents that reflect their gender identity or expression as a prerequisite to treating the students consistent with their gender identity or expression;
b. allow students to participate in sex-segregated activities and access sex-segregated facilities, including but not limited to restrooms, locker rooms, athletics teams, student organizations, single-sex classes, and student housing or overnight accommodations, in a manner consistent with the student's gender identity or expression; and
c. protect students' privacy related to their transgender or gender non-conforming status, including their birth name or sex assigned at birth, and allow students to request that a school amend information in the student's education records relating to their gender identity or expression that is inaccurate, misleading, or in violation of the student's privacy rights.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03861-01-9
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