New York Democrat Leaders Want to Ban the Terms “Mother” and “Father”

Articles | June 4, 2026 | by Catholics for Catholics

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They want to change them to “gestating parents” for a mother and “non-gestating parent” for father.

By Catholics for Catholics

Soon, the names “mother” and “father” will be obsolete, according to two New York Democrats.

Earlier this week, New York Democrats passed a bill that would swap “mother” with “gestating parent” in state child custody and parental laws, according to a story by The Daily Wire.

In addition, the new bill would also substitute “father” with “non-gestating parent” in an effort to form gender-inclusive terms in legal situations, The New York Post reported. The bill alters “paternity” proceedings, which determine a child’s biological father, to “parentage” cases.

Also, the bill changes the term “putative father,” a man biologically related to a child without a legal relationship, to “an alleged parent.” 

Sponsored by Democrats Amy Paulin in the State Assembly and Senator Luis Sepulveda in the State Senate, the bill now proceeds to New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk for approval. 

Immediately, conservatives panned the leftist bill. Gerard Kassar, the Conservative Party Chairman said the legislation was “woke culture run amok.”

Leave it to New York to ban the "outdated" terms Mother and Father during "pride." They prefer gestating parent and non-gestating parent instead.

We should hereby ban the term "lawmaker" for New York Democrats. It's outdated. We should just call them retards. pic.twitter.com/qYCHDpu91U

— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) June 4, 2026

“It’s an example of how out of tune the New York legislature is,” Kassar said, according to the Post. “It’s an unnecessary and wasteful use of time.” 

Kassar sees this gender-neutral bill as the first in a stampede of others, and blasted Democratic state lawmakers’ priorities as backward. 

 The memo that accompanied the bill claimed the legislation is required due to surrogacy cases with same-sex parents. An adoption lawyer said “mother” and “father” are outdated terms considering how many same-sex couple adoptions there are, according to the Post. 

But Bruce Blakeman, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, said that the Democrats are continuing a “war” on New York families through this attempt to strip away the “loving terms of Mom and Dad.”

“The insanity ends when I’m governor,” Blakeman said.