Mayor Adams on Thursday jumped into the controversial subject of transgender id and restrooms, saying he’s going to evaluation — and probably search to alter – a NYC faculty coverage that enables transgender college students to make use of their most popular loos.
Adams mentioned he doesn’t consider it’s “safe” for them to take action when different kids are in these loos, a stance that comes because the Trump administration threatened earlier this week to withhold federal funding over faculty gender-inclusive insurance policies.
“We’re going so far away from common sense,” Adams mentioned at an unrelated press convention outdoors the United Nations. “I don’t support girls and boys using the same restroom.”
The mayor, a Democrat working for re-election as an impartial who’s trailing within the polls, was responding to a query from a reporter after he raised the topic with an assault the day earlier than on front-runner Zohran Mamdani. In elevating the toilet controversy, Adams is seizing on what has grow to be a central subject in lots of conservative campaigns.
“We’re going to always respect how one identifies themselves. But my utmost importance is to ensure that when my children are in school, they’re in a safe environment. And I do not believe a safe environment is allowing boys and girls to use the same facility at the same time.”
Mayor Eric Adams (proper), Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and NYPD Chief of Division John Chell attend a press convention at police headquarters in Manhattan, New York Metropolis on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Each day Information)
Public faculties guidelines dictate that college students “must be provided access to facilities (restrooms, locker rooms, or changing rooms) consistent with their gender identity asserted at school.” Colleges are required to supply college students an alternate in the event that they want extra privateness, however any preparations have to be made in a “non-stigmatizing manner” that’s “not marginalizing or disruptive for the student.”
Adams on Thursday mentioned he would evaluation the coverage, which is in compliance with state legislation, for himself.
“If it permits young boys and young girls to share the same restroom at the same time, I’m going to look at my authority and power to change that,” the mayor mentioned. “I think that we have become so politically correct that we are incorrect.”
Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, slammed the mayor’s touch upon social media.
“Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration,” Mamdani mentioned. “It’s completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.”
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends a information convention within the Bronx the place he was endorsed by Meeting Speaker Carl Heastie on September 17, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Pictures)
5 native districts inside the metropolis faculty system are at present beneath evaluation for continued funding by this system, Trainor mentioned.
The letter directed the college system to “adopt biology-based definitions” for female and male, and separate pupil loos “on the basis of sex.” Trainor directed native officers to conform to take such “remedial steps” by finish of day Friday.
“He’s a bigot and his position on transgender youth is disgusting and despicable,” Allen Roskoff, a longtime LGBTQ rights activist, mentioned of Adams, including that the mayor is “totally in line with Donald Trump on this.”
Initially Revealed: September 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM EDT
