In New York it is illegal to insult people who are too fat and deny them employment.

In May of this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed a special law prohibiting discrimination based on a person’s height, weight or body size.

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In May of this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed a special law prohibiting discrimination based on a person’s height, weight or body size.

And now this document has come into force. From now on, in the City of the Big Apple, it is officially prohibited to discriminate against fat, short or very tall people when hiring them, renting residential premises or admitting them to public spaces.

The mayor proudly declared that “now it doesn’t matter how tall you are or your weight when you’re looking for a job or trying to rent an apartment; The new law will help create equal conditions for all citizens and protect them from discrimination.” He also especially noted that this concern will affect all those who visit New York for various purposes.

A violation of the law would be, among other things, refusing to hire a person because the applicant is tall or, conversely, short, overweight or underweight, or because his or her body is disproportionately large. It is not yet clear how this law will be observed in those professions where body parameters are important, for example, for stewardesses and stewardesses.

Those who allow themselves to use offensive language against people protected by this law will face substantial fines.

Neither the mayor nor the city council published statistics on the number of complaints about discrimination against “atypical” citizens, nor any other information related to the need to adopt such a document. Furthermore, the law does not contain any regulations that require employers, landlords, catering and transportation systems, and the entertainment industry to take into account the needs of people who are short or extremely obese.

This is not the first law to be passed in New York as part of the fight for political correctness and inclusion, racial and gender equality. In fact, most of them remained declarative intentions put down on paper.