File #: Int 1204-2025    Version: Name: Requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to conduct an assessment and develop a health agenda regarding health inequities affecting transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary individuals.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Women and Gender Equity
On agenda: 2/27/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to conduct an assessment and develop a health agenda regarding health inequities affecting transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary individuals when compared to cisgender individuals, and health inequities affecting intersex individuals
Sponsors: Chi A. Ossé, Crystal Hudson, Shahana K. Hanif, Erik D. Bottcher, Lincoln Restler, Tiffany Cabán, Farah N. Louis, Alexa Avilés, Chris Banks, Carlina Rivera , Gale A. Brewer, Shaun Abreu, Diana I. Ayala, Christopher Marte, Shekar Krishnan, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Darlene Mealy, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 19
Summary: This bill would require the Commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to conduct an assessment on health inequities affecting transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary (TGNCNB) individuals in light of health inequities between TGNCNB individuals and cisgender individuals, and health inequities affecting intersex individuals. The bill would require DOHMH to develop a health agenda for TGNCNB individuals and intersex individuals that includes strategies for DOHMH to address health inequities identified in the assessment. The bill would require the Commissioner of DOHMH to deliver the results of the assessment no later than September 30, 2027 and to provide a health agenda no later than September 30, 2028 and every 5 years thereafter.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1204-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1204, 3. Int. No. 1204, 4. February 27, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-27-25, 6. Committee Report 2/28/25, 7. Hearing Testimony 2/28/25, 8. Hearing Transcript 2/28/25, 9. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 11. Proposed Int. No. 1204-A - 4/18/25, 12. Int. No. 1204-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 13. Int. No. 1204-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 14. Committee Report 4/24/25, 15. April 24, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1204-A

 

By Council Members Ossé, Hudson, Hanif, Bottcher, Restler, Cabán, Louis, Avilés, Banks, Rivera, Brewer, Abreu, Ayala, Marte, Krishnan, Gutiérrez, Sanchez, Mealy and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to conduct an assessment and develop a health agenda regarding health inequities affecting transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary individuals when compared to cisgender individuals, and health inequities affecting intersex individuals

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.29 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.29 Health plan for TGNCNB and intersex individuals a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Cisgender. The term “cisgender” means a person whose gender identity conforms to the sex assigned at birth.

Gender identity. The term “gender identity” means a person’s sense of their own gender, which may be the same as or different from the sex assigned at birth.

Gender nonconforming. The term “gender nonconforming” means a person whose gender expression differs from gender stereotypes, norms, and expectations in a given culture or historical period.

Intersex. The term “intersex” means a person whose sex characteristics, including, but not limited to chromosomes, hormones, gonads, and genitalia, do not conform with a binary construction of sex as either male or female. This term may not be the same as a person’s gender identity and is not the same as a person’s sexual orientation.

Non-binary. The term “non-binary” means a person whose gender identity is not exclusively male or female.

TGNCNB. The term “TGNCNB” means transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary.

Transgender. The term “transgender” means a person whose gender identity does not conform to the sex assigned at birth.

b. Assessment. The commissioner, in collaboration with the chair of the commission on gender equity, shall conduct an assessment regarding health inequities affecting TGNCNB individuals when compared to cisgender individuals, and health inequities affecting intersex individuals. In developing such assessment, the commissioner shall consult with advocates in the TGNCNB community, advocates for intersex youth and adults, public health experts, and any other individuals or organizations the commissioner deems relevant. Such assessment shall include information on health outcomes for TGNCNB individuals and intersex individuals, health inequities affecting TGNCNB individuals when compared to cisgender individuals, and the availability of health services for TGNCNB individuals and intersex individuals. In developing such assessment, the commissioner shall consider health concerns for TGNCNB individuals and intersex individuals whose health outcomes may also be affected by other social determinants of health, including, but not limited to race, ethnicity, and other factors the commissioner deems relevant.

c. Health agenda. The commissioner, in collaboration with the chair of the commission on gender equity, shall develop a health agenda for TGNCNB individuals and intersex individuals that includes strategies to address health inequities identified by the assessment required pursuant to subdivision b of this section.

d. Submission timeline. No later than September 30, 2027, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on the department’s website, the results of the assessment required pursuant to subdivision b of this section. No later than September 30, 2028, and every 5 years thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on the department’s website, the health agenda required pursuant to subdivision c of this section. 

e. Additional assessments. The results of the assessment required to be submitted by September 30, 2027, pursuant to subdivisions b and d of this section, shall include a determination by the commissioner as to whether any further such assessments are necessary.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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LS #13740/13761

4/16/25 9:52pm