“What The Hell Is A GESTATING Parent?” - New York’s WOKE War On Mom & Dad

**Patrick Bet David** (0:00)
Mothers, if you're watching this, this story is kind of dedicated to you, and I would encourage you to get a little bit upset and annoyed and talk about it with your friends. Imagine living in the financial capital of the world called New York City, New York State, ran by a mayor, Mamdani, right? Who, socialist, communist, he said some stuff that's socialist and communist, Islamist. This is a guy that becomes a mayor. By the way, he wins fairly, like it's not like he cheated to win. He ends up winning, he beats all the other guys, New York City votes for him, and Hokel becomes the governor, and now they're talking about two words that they don't want you to be using.
Democrats replace mother with gestating parent in latest woke rewrite of New York law. And when I first read this, it wasn't a story for me, because I thought it was fake. Like there's no way in the world this is real. Okay, Rob, is this the story that you have there?

**Rob** (0:52)
Yes, this is Kathy Hokel asking if she's going to sign this into law.

**Patrick Bet David** (0:55)
Go for it.

**Kathy Hochul** (0:56)
Not familiar with what was introduced late last night, so I'll take a look at it. I have until the end of the year to review them and make a decision, so I won't be commenting on pending legislation.

**Patrick Bet David** (1:04)
Okay, so let me read this here. New bill would replace the word mother and father in New York state child custody and parental laws with gender neutral language. Mother would be replaced with gestating parent, while father would become non-gestating parent or simply parent in family court, as well as in domestic and educational law under legislation passed by state Democrats. Paternity proceedings to determine a child's biological father would become percentage cases under the bill. A putative father would be referred to as an alleged parent in official records. What a freaking shit show. The legislation was sponsored by Senator Luis Sepulveda. It's a great street in LA, but I don't know about this bill. An assemblyman, Amy Paulin, will be sent to Governor Kathy Oka for consideration. It's woke culture run amok. It's one upmanship, says state conservative chairman, Gerard Kisar. He argued the legislation was unnecessary and predicted it could lead to additional efforts to replace traditional terminology in state law. So imagine people who are considering moving to New York seeing this and saying, do I need this silliness? This is really a weird group of elected officials. It comes out of the left field. Tom, your thoughts on this story?

**Tom** (2:14)
Well, I'm confused because the way most people in New York, when I'm visiting there, you go to get a cab or whatever out in front. Vinny, you used to live in New York. The guy comes up to me and says, what's up, Mother Effer? So he has to change it. Now he has to say, what's up, non-gestating effort?

**Vinny** (2:33)
It takes a sting out of it. It takes a sting out of it.

**Tom** (2:36)
It's going to make New York a zoo, don't you think?

**Vinny** (2:40)
A hundred percent.

**Tom** (2:41)
No, I think this is ridiculous. So when you go to politically correct, you go straight to politically confusing and ridiculous. When is politically correct, where we try not to offend somebody? The whole point of political correctness is not to offend somebody. The Native Americans were known that way as a group, and there were tribes of Native Americans. So then they go and attack the Washington Redskins. I could see how people potentially were offended by that. But the Cleveland Indians, really? You made the Cleveland Indians, which is a generic term, change their name? This is where the snowball goes down on political correctness.
And we end at the bottom of ridiculous, and I agree with the Republicans about one-upmanship of ridiculous.

**Patrick Bet David** (3:35)
Maybe let's find out, Rob, if you want to pull up this guy's face, we know maybe he's a good guy. Maybe Luis Sepulveda is like right there. So Luis Sepulveda, American attorney politician who currently serves as New York State Senator and 32nd Senate district, which includes the Bronx. Okay. Can we go a little bit, Sepulveda is a close ally of Bill de Blasio. Remember Bill de Blasio as a mayor. Go a little bit lower on his past victories and stuff that he's done to protect mothers and fathers. So in 2015, his wife requested an order of protection against him after she alleged that an argument between them turned violent. The restraining order was never issued. In 2021, police responded to a 911 call from Sepulveda's wife. When the police arrived, both Sepulveda and his wife claimed the other had assaulted them. Later Sepulveda turned in and was arrested allegedly assaulting his wife and was charged with assault and third-degree criminal obstruction of breathing and...