NYC parents face retaliation after voting for DOE review of trans athletes in girls’ sports

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.

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.

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“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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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.

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“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.

“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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