How You Can Bring Hope To the Fight For Sex-Based Rights
See an exciting legal announcement towards the end of this article!
Thanks to a generous donor, WoLF is excited to announce our Holiday $100K Match Challenge: Triple Your Donation for Women & Girls!
Through December 31st, your year-end donation to WoLF will be TRIPLED up to $100,000 thanks to our match donor. This means your $50 gift becomes $150 toward WoLF’s vital defense of civil rights for women and girls! As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, WoLF exists to give women and girls a fair fight against the erosion of fundamental sex-based rights at the federal and state level.
$100,000 IN GIFTS + $300,000 MATCH GRANT = $400,000 FOR WOMEN & GIRLS!
SEX-BASED RIGHTS in Courts & Legislatures
Our civil rights lawsuit, amici curiae friend-of-the-court briefs, public testimony, calls to action, public education, and other types of work have all been funded and made possible through the ongoing generosity of people who care about protecting and empowering women and girls.
Since 2020, WoLF has advanced legal and policy advocacy in 37 of the 50 states with a staff of less than five, a team of dedicated volunteers, and a mere fraction of the annual budget of agencies like the ACLU. When you support WoLF, you bolster the feminist defense of sex-based rights in our nation’s highest courts and legislatures.
Although WoLF is still a small organization compared to the industry giants we are up against (Scales of Society: People | Money), we began with the tireless efforts of our members, volunteers, and generous donors like you!
As the largest radical feminist nonpartisan nonprofit in the United States, WoLF strategically focuses on providing a feminist counter-narrative to gender ideology and commercial sexual exploitation at every level of government. By applying our limited resources strategically, WoLF advances the front line of feminism with your generous support.
This year alone, WoLF donors helped us submit sixteen written and oral testimonies across ten states during the busy legislative session—a 78% increase from 2021! Additionally, donors empowered WoLF to collaboratively draft the historic model legislation, Women’s Bill of Rights; file three amicus briefs; submit feminist public comments to three federal agencies; post a feminist billboard with grassroots supporters; and more—This is the power of your support at work!
WoLF brings hope to women and girls—to restore and protect their rights, safety, and dignity.
RESTORING SINGLE-SEX PRISONS, TOGETHER
Crises in Women’s Prisons Across the Nation
New Jersey shamefully made national news this year when a trans-identified male impregnated two female inmates. Horrifyingly, the man was placed there after the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility entered a settlement agreement with the ACLU. Women incarcerated at Mahan Correctional have stated the situation is “a nightmare that [they] can’t wake up from…” In New York, a trans-identified male inmate was convicted of raping an incarcerated woman this year.
Arguably, California is ground zero for much of this madness. From reports of retaliation to rape, the women of Central California Facility for Women need our aid. With your support, WoLF continues this vital feminist struggle in our groundbreaking Chandler v. CDCR civil rights lawsuit.
This year, the ACLU moved to intervene in Chandler v. CDCR and argued that excluding male sex offenders from women’s prisons is “unconstitutional.” Thanks to supporters like you, WoLF has taken legal action to amplify the voices of incarcerated women as they fight for their right to rehabilitative, safe single-sex prison accommodations!
Justice is not yet served for the incarcerated women of California. Our brave plaintiffs seek immediate relief from the law allowing males to transfer into women’s prison yards, showers, and cells. Frustratingly, California courts cite an unprecedented backlog of cases as rulings and trials are delayed including the Eastern District, where Chandler v. CDCR was filed. Get a quick overview of our ongoing lawsuit below.
BRIGHTER HORIZONS FOR SEX-BASED RIGHTS
Recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling
In 2021, WoLF submitted an amicus brief in the case of Green v. Miss United States of America (MUSA), in which a trans-identified male plaintiff sued over his ineligibility. On November 2nd, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals expanded the First Amendment’s protection against compelled speech to include single-sex beauty pageants. The ruling protected MUSA from being compelled to admit males as "natural born females,” regardless of the plaintiff’s argument that state law would have otherwise compelled the admittance of men with a “gender identity.”
This is fantastic news for women & girls! The Ninth Circuit is considered among the ‘most captured’ by gender ideology, as it presides over district courts in California, Oregon, Washington, and more.
Circuit Judge VanDyke’s concurring opinion (pAGE 10)
The court’s ruling is consistent with WoLF’s legal arguments from the brief and with our overall position and strategy on women’s free speech. Plus, WoLF’s brief was cited in the concurring opinion (see right)! You can read the full opinion here.
It further inspires hope for US women that we will benefit from this precedent to forge similar legal protections that propelled Maya Forstater’s UK triumph last year.
Historic Women’s Bill of Rights Introduced to Congress
This year, WoLF’s model legislation inspired a congressional resolution: the Women's Bill of Rights! Created in collaboration with Independent Women's Voice (IWV), WoLF and IWV originally introduced the Women's Bill of Rights on March 31, 2022. This May, the resolution was presented to the US House of Representatives, followed by the Senate.
This historic nonpartisan model legislation was created to legally define what a "woman" is, acknowledge that women and girls deserve single-sex spaces, and codify a standard of intermediate scrutiny so the law can legally recognize sex when relevant.
As of today, the Women’s Bill of Rights has been signed by over 12,400 concerned citizens, 16 candidates, and 26 lawmakers!
Thwarted Maryland’s Plans to Sex Integrate Women’s Prison
This past May, Maryland’s proposed "Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex Inmates (Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act)" died in committee, thanks partly to testimonies by WoLF members Jennifer Chavez and Kacie Mills, and Amanda Stulman of Keep Prisons Single Sex USA!
This victory is particularly encouraging as Maryland is a “blue” state. This is a welcome reversal from current trends, perhaps due in part to the widespread cross-partisan support for single-sex spaces, including prisons.
Take heart—If you show up and speak up, you can make a real impact to improve conditions for women and girls!
Pioneering Women’s Rights LITIGATION
Justice for Women & Girls Harmed by “Gender” Medicine
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, WoLF has sponsored the initial stages of a groundbreaking, first-ever US “detransitioner” lawsuit in partnership with Jackson Bone LLP! WoLF plans to support at least two additional women in similar cases in the upcoming months—More details coming soon!
By making a year-end donation to WoLF, you will have the opportunity to open the courtroom doors to other courageous women and girls who have experienced profound malpractice from harmful “gender affirming” medical interventions.
You can make a difference in this fight.
Join our fight for sex-based rights with a tax-deductible gift this holiday season!
