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Ooff! Not the most solid of predictions!

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Regarding the Crain's article, you write:

"Known also as the Equal Rights Amendment, the ballot question’s expansive language on gender identity and national origin has attracted furious backlash from Republicans, who believe the new amendment would trigger an enormous wave of biological males playing female high school sports (evidence is scant this would happen) and allow more migrants to settle in New York (the bill language can’t unilaterally change immigration laws)."

Two strawmen.

Re trans, reasonable opponents are not saying it will trigger a wave. But very likely will make it impossible to keep biological males out of women's sports, however many there may be. It will also possibly make it impossible for parents to keep outside parties from performing irreversible medical procedures on their children without their consent. Once these vaguely worded protections are in the state constitution it is an open invitation for judges to get creative.

Re national origin - first of all, it isn't a "bill," it's an amendment to the state constitution. As such it absolutely can change state and city laws unilaterally. It may not "allow more migrants to settle in New York" but it very well could create a legal basis for them to be entitled to every state and local benefit that legal residents are.

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