Eric Adams denies transgender bathroom policy is from Trump
The article discusses New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ recent statements regarding the city’s transgender bathroom policy in schools. Adams denied that his decision too review the policy allowing students to use the bathroom aligning with their gender identity was influenced by former President Donald trump. He emphasized his priority is ensuring safety for children in schools and expressed concerns about boys and girls sharing bathroom facilities together. Adams clarified that he supports men and women using the same bathrooms, but not simultaneously occurring, and criticized what he called the “radical left” for overriding common sense on this issue.
The article also references Adams’ past support for transgender students’ rights, including a 2017 tweet affirming that transgender and gender non-conforming students in NYC could use bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. It notes that the city faces the possibility of losing part of its $2.5 billion federal education funding over this policy due to compliance issues related to Title IX enforcement directives that focus on biological sex. Additionally, the article mentions that Adams’ position contrasts with other Democratic candidates running against him in his reelection campaign.
Eric Adams denies transgender bathroom policy is from Trump
New York City Mayor Eric Adams denied that his decision to review a policy to allow school-aged children to use the bathroom of their choice was influenced by President Donald Trump.
Over the weekend, Adams alluded that he would look into his city’s policy to allow students access to the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. Adams was at a press conference when he was asked about Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s threat that New York City has “3 days to come into compliance.”
“My utmost importance is to ensure that when my children are in school, they’re in there in a safe environment,” Adams said at the time. “I do not believe a safe environment is allowing boys and girls to use the same facility at the same time.”
Adams then added, “I’m going to look at exactly what the policy is. If it’s allowing them to be in the same restroom at the same time, I would use whatever power I have to stop that.”
On Monday’s episode of LiveNOW from Fox, Adams addressed a question on whether he’d changed his mind about transgender people using the bathroom of their choice.
“There’s no indicator in history that I was in support of boys going into showers with little girls. So it’s not that I heard from Trump, I heard from Dorothy Adams, my mother,” Adams said.
Adams explained that he is for “men and women using the same bathrooms, but not at the same time.”
“I’m blown away that we have allowed the radical left to hijack common sense in our city and in our country,” Adams added. “Think about what we’re saying here: we’re saying that young boys can go into the shower with young girls because they feel that they are a young girl.”
In 2017, Adams wrote on X that “In NYC, transgender and gender non-conforming students use the bathroom that makes sense to them. That won’t change.”
Early in his administration, Trump signed the “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order to clarify that Title IX, a law banning sex-based discrimination, would be enforced on the basis of biological sex, with his administration arguing that requiring a female to compete against a transgender woman instead of having female-exclusive sports constitutes a civil rights violation.
Now New York City stands to lose some of its $2.5 billion in federal funding over its bathroom policy.
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As Adams is currently campaigning for reelection, his stance on bathrooms for transgender students is a stark difference from the other two Democratic candidates campaigning against him.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the White House for comment.
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