File #: Int 1200-2025    Version: * Name: Public information and outreach campaign regarding legal rights and resources available to TGNCNBI individuals.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Women and Gender Equity
On agenda: 2/27/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a public information and outreach campaign regarding legal rights and resources available to TGNCNBI individuals
Sponsors: Tiffany Cabán, Chi A. Ossé, Erik D. Bottcher, Crystal Hudson, Lynn C. Schulman, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would require the city to administer a public education program to inform the public about the legal rights and resources available to TGNCNBI individuals. The public education program would provide information on protections against discrimination and harassment related to gender, sexual orientation, and sexual and reproductive health decisions. It would also include information on hate crime protections, access to gender-affirming care, community-based organizations offering support services for TGNCNBI individuals, and legal name and gender marker changes.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1200, 2. Int. No. 1200, 3. February 27, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Committee Report 2/28/25, 5. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 6. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB

Int. No. 1200

 

By Council Members Cabán, Ossé, Bottcher, Hudson, Schulman, Hanif and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a public information and outreach campaign regarding legal rights and resources available to TGNCNBI individuals

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 3-119.9 to read as follows:

§ 3-119.9 Public education on legal rights and resources available to TGNCNBI individuals. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Administering agency. The term “administering agency” means the agency that the mayor designates to administer the public education program established by this section.

Community-based organization. The term “community-based organization” means a non-profit organization representing the needs of and providing services to a particular community.

Gender-affirming care. The term “gender-affirming care” has the same meaning as defined in section 10-184.1.

Gender identity. The term “gender identity” means a person’s sense of their own gender, which may be the same as or different from the sex assigned at birth.

Gender nonconforming. The term “gender nonconforming” means a person whose gender expression differs from gender stereotypes, norms, and expectations in a given culture or historical period.

Intersex. The term “intersex” means a person whose sex characteristics, including, but not limited to chromosomes, hormones, gonads, and genitalia, do not conform with a binary construction of sex as either male or female. This term may not be the same as a person’s gender identity and is not the same as a person’s sexual orientation.

Nonbinary. The term “nonbinary” means a person whose gender identity is not exclusively male or female.

TGNCNBI. The term “TGNCNBI” means transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex.

Transgender. The term “transgender” means a person whose gender identity does not conform to the sex assigned at birth.

b. Public education. The mayor shall designate an agency to administer a public education program that informs the public regarding legal rights and resources available to TGNCNBI individuals in the city. The administering agency shall, in coordination with the commission on human rights, the commission on gender equity, the department of health and mental hygiene, and such other relevant agencies as the mayor may designate, as appropriate, develop materials in furtherance of such public education program and shall post such materials on the city’s website in the designated citywide languages as defined in section 23-1101. Such public education program shall include information regarding the following: 

1. Protections against discrimination and harassment based on gender, sexual orientation, or sexual and reproductive health decisions, including, but not limited to, protections under Title 8 and any other applicable local, state, or federal laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment, housing, and public accommodations;

2. Protections against hate crimes targeting TGNCNBI individuals, including applicable local, state, and federal laws and available resources for victims;

3. The right to access gender-affirming care in the city, including, but not limited to, relevant protections under local, state, and federal law;

4. Locations providing gender-affirming care in the city;

5. Community-based organizations in the city that provide support services to TGNCNBI individuals, including, but not limited to, community-based organizations providing health care, housing assistance, legal advocacy, or social support services;

6. The process for legal name and gender marker changes, including, but not limited to, resources available to assist individuals in completing such changes; and

7. Any other rights and resources the administering agency deems relevant to TGNCNBI individuals.

§ 2. The mayor shall designate one or more agencies to engage in a media campaign that informs the public regarding legal rights and resources available to TGNCNBI individuals in the city. Such campaign may include, but need not be limited to, the categories of information to be included in the public education program operated pursuant to section 3-119.9 of the administrative code of the city of New York.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

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