NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the "radical left" is "hijacking" the Democratic party, pointing particularly to bathroom gender policies in schools.

“We’re losing mainstream Democrats because of the radical left,” Adams told PIX11 News Monday morning. “It has really hijacked not only the party, but hijacked our party.”

Sitting next to First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro, Adams doubled down on his call last week to change the city's school bathroom gender policy, insinuating it was a key reason for this political split.

"Little boys should not be sharing bathroom showers with little girls,” Adams said. “I don’t have the authority to change it. If I did, I [would] change it.”

New York City's public schools allow transgender and "gender expansive students" to use

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