Prohibits a court from granting, denying or deciding a petition for guardianship, custody or visitation solely on the allegation or basis that a parent or guardian is providing or facilitating the provision of gender affirming care to the subject child.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10717
IN ASSEMBLY
September 18, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Burdick) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the domestic relations law, in relation to the consider-
ation of gender affirming care in custody matters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The domestic relations law is amended by adding a new
2 section 75-n to read as follows:
3 § 75-n. Consideration of providing gender affirming care. 1. The court
4 may not grant, deny or decide a petition for guardianship, custody or
5 visitation solely on the allegation or basis that a parent or guardian
6 is providing or facilitating the provision of gender affirming care to
7 the subject child.
8 2. As used in this section, "gender affirming care" means care for the
9 subject child which encompasses a range of social, psychological, behav-
10 ioral, and medical interventions designed to support and affirm an indi-
11 vidual's gender identity when it conflicts with the gender they were
12 assigned at birth.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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