Mayor Adams weighed in on the wedge issue of transgender identity and restrooms Thursday, saying he wants to review the city’s current policy that allows school kids to use the facilities that align with their identity.

The debate has become a rallying cry for many conservatives and some moderates. Trailing badly in the polls, the mayor, a Democrat running for re-election as an independent, was responding to a question from a reporter after he, unprompted, raised the subject with an attack earlier this week on front-runner Zohran Mamdani .

“We’re going so far away from common sense,” Adams said at an unrelated press conference outside the United Nations. “I don’t support girls and boys using the same restroom.”

Adams’ comments come as the Trump administration has threatened to w

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