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NYC PARENTS FACE RETALIATION AFTER VOTING FOR DOE REVIEW OF TRANS ATHLETES IN
GIRLS’ SPORTS

By Susan Edelman and Deirdre Bardolf

Published April 20, 2024, 12:43 p.m. ET

Parent members of a Manhattan school board who support a public review of the
city’s decision to let transgender athletes play in female sports have faced a
backlash in their professional and personal lives, they told The Post.

The Community Education Council for District 2, the city’s largest neighborhood
school board, passed a controversial and highly-publicized resolution last month
calling for the study with a vote of 8-3.

Since then, several of the eight members who voted yes say they’ve been targeted
in person, at work and where they volunteer.

“I have personally been sworn at in the street, slandered at my workplace and
vilified online,” CEC 2 member Allyson Bowen told The Post.

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“An elected board should be able to intelligently and respectfully call for a
review of DOE policy on any topic — academic, admissions, athletics or otherwise
— without being under attack,” Bowen said. William C Lopez/New York Post

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Bowen was questioned by the legal counsel at her real-estate job after an
anonymous commenter on X attacked her in reply to her company’s post recognizing
Pride Month.

“Seems a little off brand to have one of your top employees, Allyson Bowen,
co-sponsoring an anti-trans resolution,” the New York Mama page blasted.

“An elected board should be able to intelligently and respectfully call for a
review of DOE policy on any topic — academic, admissions, athletics or otherwise
— without being under attack,” Bowen, who co-sponsored Resolution 248, told The
Post.

Supporters contend the largely symbolic resolution simply asks for parental
involvement, transparency, and a review of DOE guidelines, which allow students
to participate in sports according to their gender identity.

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“I’m just here to serve, I am a public servant and I am trying to do that to my
best ability,” Boparai told The Post. William C Lopez/New York Post

In protest of CEC 2 recording secretary Craig Slutzkin, a petition demanded that
he resign from the Townsend Harris Alumni Association, citing “hateful
targeting” of transgender students.

It gathered roughly 200 signatures.

Slutzkin, who also serves on his Manhattan community board, was called out at a
recent meeting of current and past elected officials for approving the
resolution.

The resolution, he said, does not call for a ban on trans athletes competing
with girls, but seeks to have “respectful” conversations about the policy.

“I don’t think any parents volunteering their time should have to fear being
canceled,” he told The Post.

Manpreet “Pree” Boparai fears her vote on the resolution has kept her from being
able to give back to her community in other ways and to be honored for her years
of civic work.

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Dozens of critics including Chase Strangio of the ACLU came to CEC 2’s meeting
Wednesday to speak against the resolution. William C Lopez/New York Post

“I’m just here to serve, I am a public servant and I am trying to do that to my
best ability. But does that take away from other potential successes? It
shouldn’t be that my vote as a parent advocate could impact everything else that
I’ve done to serve the community.”

Following the vote, an honor Boparai was slated to receive from Manhattan
Borough President Mark Levine was canceled, sources said.

Trans activists flooded the board’s Wednesday meeting, where one parent warned
of the “consequences” of painting trans people as a “threat.”

“You can think about it every night when you go home, you can think about it
when you show up here,” ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio told the board. “We’re here
tonight with . . . 70 people. Next time we’ll be here again and we’ll be here
again … we will be watching.”

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