A parent council meeting devolved into chaos on Wednesday night as transgender rights activists poured out in support of rescinding a resolution they decried as “anti-trans.”
Dozens of activists erupted in humming, heckling, yelling, hissing and coughing and blocked the microphone anytime a Community Education Council member for District 2 or an attendee who they disagreed with spoke.
Some members could be heard requesting the meeting be canceled. Multiple pauses and a suspension of the public comment sought to restore order.
“The censorious authoritarian trans activists who descended on our council for a fourth month in a row to harass members, shout down speaker, and imperiously demand that we all bow down to their cult of child sex changes showed their true colors,” said Maud Maron, who was a member of the Lower Manhattan-Midtown-Upper East Side CEC until Friday, when the city Department of Education announced her removal.
On the agenda Wednesday was a move to rescind Resolution 248, which was co-sponsored by Maron and passed in March.
It called for a review of the city’s policy that allows trans kids to play sports in accordance with their preferred gender.
“For you to force people like me to play with boys, I don’t know in what world you could be doing that,” one trans student said during the public comment.
Some students spoke up in support of the CEC’s call to review the policy.
“As a female athlete, I had no input in the changes made to the 2019 guidelines on gender in sports and education, with which I disagree,” a senior from Stuyvesant High School said.
“I was shocked that those backing this resolution are being silenced, because my New York City education has always taught me that balanced conversation is crucial in decision-making,” said the student.
Wednesday’s resolution did not pass.
The protest was lead by “Trans formative Schools,” a group that is trying to open a trans middle school.
The group passed out flyers calling for 248 to be rescinded and labeling members Charles Love, Maud Maron and Danyela Egorov as “bullies and enablers.”
