CALL TO ACTION FOR NYC RESIDENTS!

Trans people are under attack and being scapegoated while already marginalized. In addition to hateful rhetoric coming from the federal administration, over 500 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced in state legislatures already in 2025 (1).

But there are two glimmers of hope we’d like to share: 

1) Of those laws introduced at the state level, only 10 have become law. Over 98% have failed! (2) 

2) Protective legislation has been passed in many cities and states! This includes Olympia, Washington; San Francisco and Sacramento, California; Kansas City, Missouri; Washington, D.C.; Boston, Massachusetts; and more! All over the country, communities are stepping up to protect their trans neighbors, and it’s time for New York to do the same.

Throughout its history, New York City has been a beacon for the LGBTQIA+ community and we need it to stay that way! NYC needs to pass legislation to protect and support our LGBTQIA+ community, and especially our transgender community.

We’re proud to share that this protection is in the works in New York! There is currently a package of legislation being reviewed by the New York City Council’s Committee on Women and Gender Equity. If passed, these bills would make up the strongest package of legislation nationwide that are designed to protect our TGNCNBI community!   

Keep reading for specifics on the legistlation.

City Council Bill 1200-2025, “Public information and outreach campaign regarding legal rights and resources available to TGNCNBI individuals,” introduced by Councilmember Cabán, will protect the safety of TGNCNBI individuals by raising public awareness of the legal rights and resources available to our community in NYC.

Bill 1201-2025, “Access to gender affirming care facilities and a cause of action related to interference with gender affirming care,” introduced by Councilmember Hanif, will ensure the health needs of our community are met by protecting access to gender affirming and reproductive care facilities, and give the right to sue to individuals whose access to these facilities is obstructed. 

Bill 1203-2025, “Requiring the chair of the commission on gender equity to develop a plan to support newly arrived migrants 24 years old and younger and transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex newly arrived migrants,” introduced by Councilmember Ossé, protects some of the most vulnerable members of our community by mandating that New York City creates a plan to address housing, legal, and healthcare needs for young TGNCNBI migrants.

Bill 1204-2025, “Requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to develop a health agenda to promote the health and wellbeing of transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex New Yorkers,” introduced by Councilmember Ossé, will help to close the gap to ensure that adequate health care is provided to TNBGNCI New Yorkers, using input from the TGNCNBI community.

City Council Resolution 0771-2025, “Extend protections over personal health information (S.929/A.2141),” introduced by Councilmember Bottcher, will prevent third parties from obtaining or continuing to possess the private healthcare data of New Yorkers. In particular, CFLC advocates for this bill’s passage because it will protect recipients of gender affirming or reproductive healthcare from lawsuits brought by the federal government or other states.

Resolution 0774-2025, “Dept of Health to implement regulations requiring hospitals in NYC to adhere to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care 8,” introduced by Councilmember Hudson, will require all hospitals in NYC to adhere to the most up-to-date scientific information available on TGNCNBI health and ensure that NYC continues to provide world-class care to our community. 

Resolution 0781-2025, “Prohibit out-of-state access to the New York State Prescription Monitoring Program’s data for certain medications including abortion medications, hormone therapy, and puberty blockers,” introduced by Councilmember Schulman, will encourage New York State to block access to sensitive information about patients’ politicized medications such as testosterone and mifepristone. This will help to prevent out-of-state prosecutions of people seeking reproductive and gender affirming care in New York. 

Finally, Resolution 793-2025, “Provide additional protections for the sensitive health information of patients (S.1633/A.2613),” introduced by Councilmember Schulman, calls on the Governor to protect New Yorkers seeking reproductive and gender affirming care by protecting sensitive health information and giving patients the right to restrict disclosure of their health information by health care providers, electronic health record systems, and health information networks.  

The time is now for you to reach out to your NYC Council Member to demonstrate widespread community support, which we hope will encourage the NYC Council to pass these laws. They need to know that their constituents are urgently asking them to pass these bills! You can find your City Council Member here. Ask them to join onto the bills as a co-sponsor to show their support of Trans, Gender Nonconforming, Non-Binary, and Intersex New Yorkers! 

We also encourage you to contact the bills’ co-sponsors directly (especially if they represent you!): Tiffany Caban, Shahana Hanif, Chi Osse, Erik Bottcher, Crystal Hudson, Lynn Schulman, Farah Louis, Alexa Avilés, Carlina Rivera, Lincoln Restler, Sandy Nurse, Carmen De La Rosa, and Keith Powers. We are grateful to these City Council Members for their outspoken support of our community—and they need to know that the community urgently needs them to pass these bills! 

Ultimately, NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams has the power to push these bills forward to passage. Now that she has entered the mayoral race, we hope our community will call on her to demonstrate that she will step up for the LGBTQIA+ community. You can email NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams at speakeradams@council.nyc.gov and tell her to schedule a vote on these bills! The more she hears from New Yorkers about the urgency of these bills, the more likely she is to schedule the vote.

Our TGNCNBI community members are being bombarded from every direction with cruelty, terror, and messages that New York doesn’t have our backs. You can take a meaningful step TODAY to counter those messages and say clearly to your vulnerable neighbors: you matter, your well-being matters, and this city is not going to back down when it comes to your safety.

Please forward this webpage to supportive NYC resident friends!