Testimony Regarding Oversight – Ensuring Access to Supports for TGNCNB People in NYC

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) submitted the following testimony for the New York City Council Committee on Women and Girls regarding Oversight – Ensuring Access to Supports for Transgender, Gender Non-conforming, and Nonbinary (TGNCNB) People in New York City.

The Trump presidency is an existential threat to LGBTQ people and to transgender, gender non-conforming, nonbinary, and intersex (TGNCNBI) people in particular. In the first weeks of his presidency, the Trump administration issued executive orders (EOs) aiming to exclude transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, and intersex people from all walks of public and civic life and make it impossible for them to access health care or participate in society, whether to go to school, play sports, have federal identity documents that match their identities, or participate in the federal workforce or armed services.

New York City must respond unequivocally in support of the TGNCNBI and LGBTQ communities in this moment, and we are deeply grateful that the Committee on Women and Gender Equity is taking an important first step in this direction by holding today’s hearing.