Amala Ekpunobi

Changing paternity to parentage also makes no sense because a paternity test is a paternity test.

It does in fact determine who is the father of the child or what male's DNA contributed to the making of the child.

So make that make sense.

And even though I could sit here and nitpick all the different ways in which this is ridiculous, I just want to remind you guys that this is how your representatives have been spending their time.

All this requires now is the governor's signature, which means this has passed in both of the governing bodies of New York.

This is where they've been spending their time.

This is what they've been debating.

This is what your tax dollars have been going towards.

Even though in New York, I think you guys are dealing with property and housing issues.

I think you're dealing with public safety issues.

They're late on passing a budget that is probably billions of dollars at the moment.

But let's change mother and father to gestating parents and non-gestating parents.

That makes sense.

As I said before, the war on language is very much real.

We are now allowing small subsets of the population to dictate the way in which we refer to everybody.

Now, because we have exceptions to the general population of mothers and fathers, we are now changing the way we refer to everybody.

Why?

I feel the same way about cis women.

Because trans people have come along and said that they can now adopt womanhood, we look at women who we've always referred to as women, and now we have to dictate whether or not they're cis women or trans women because this small set of the population said so.

It seems the same thing is happening here, and not only is it unnecessary, but it's a slap in the face to mothers and fathers.