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GOP lawmakers push Hochul to veto bill to erase ‘mother,’ ‘father’ from parts of NYS law

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GOP lawmakers push Hochul to veto bill to erase ‘mother,’ ‘father’ from parts of NYS law

By Vaughn Golden Published June 19, 2026, 9:30 a.m. ET

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It’s not Non-Gestating Parent’s Day!

Republican state lawmakers pushed Gov. Kathy Hochul to take a stand ahead of Father’s Day to veto a woke bill that would erase “mother” and “father” from child custody and parental laws.

Hochul’s fellow Democrats passed the gender-neutral measure that would replace “mother” with “gestating parent” and “father” with “non-gestating parent” or “parent” in family court and domestic and education law — and she’s signaled she’ll sign it into law.

But Republicans in the Legislature’s minority said in a letter obtained by The Post that Hochul should stand up against the “virtue signaling.”

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Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office is defending a bill that would ban “mother” and “father” in certain parts of Family Court law in order to make it “more inclusive.” Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.com

“To even consider replacing the term ‘father’ with ‘non-gestating parent’ diminishes the role that so many fathers play in their children’s lives,” said the letter, signed by state Sens. Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick (R-Nassau), Bill Weber (R-Rockland) and Alexis Weik (R-Suffolk).

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