Letter from Paul Wenner

Proposal 1 Is Dangerous

This November, voters in New York will be asked to vote on an amendment to the state constitution. Proposal 1, the so-called “Equal Rights Amendment,” if passed, will have dangerous ramifications for minor children and their parents. Briefly, this proposed amendment would make it illegal in New York to discriminate against persons not only for race, creed, color or religion, as the constitution already reads, but for 12 new categories.

The big concern is with the new category, “age,” which includes minors, e.g., children. Passing this amendment could easily open the door to what the New York State legislature has already been trying to do: to allow children to make medical decisions for themselves, without parental knowledge or consent. This could include permanent sex change procedures and other radical surgeries. New York parents would be prevented from knowing that their children are receiving transgender guidance and procedures in school.

You can look up Assembly and Senate bills A6761 and S762A1A276B to see what the legislature is trying to accomplish.

Additionally, biological males would be allowed to compete in women’s sports and to change in girls’ locker rooms because you wouldn’t be able to discriminate based on “sex or gender.”
Visit ProtectKidsNY.com to learn more.

Paul Wenner
Stamford