Independent Women’s Voice and WoLF Introduce the Women’s Bill of Rights
In honor of Women’s History Month and in response to the many ways that women’s rights have been eroded in the United States, WoLF worked collaboratively with Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) to create and introduce a historic piece of model legislation for the United States: the Women’s Bill of Rights.
This model legislation clearly states exactly what a “woman” is, and why women deserve single-sex spaces and opportunities. The Women’s Bill of Rights clearly defines “sex” based on biology (either male or female), seeks to enshrine into law common definitions of “woman,” “girl,” and “mother,” and seeks to codify the intermediate scrutiny standard to allow the law to recognize sex when it is relevant.
If adopted, the Women’s Bill of Rights would legally define the common understanding of the words ‘female,’ ‘woman,’ and ‘sex’ and would codify the Supreme Court’s intermediate scrutiny standard, which forbids unfair discrimination against similarly-situated males and females but allows the law to recognize sex when relevant.
On March 31st, IWV and WoLF held a press call to announce this new model legislation. The following women’s rights advocates spoke about why we need a Women’s Bill of Rights:
Abigail Shrier, author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Lauren Adams, legal director of Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF)
Kara Dansky, president of the U.S. chapter of Women’s Declaration International
Doreen Denny, senior advisor, Concerned Women for America
Margaret*, the mother of a female swimmer forced to compete against Lia Thomas
Jennifer Braceras, director, Independent Women’s Law Center
Carrie Lukas, vice president, Independent Women’s Voice
The Women’s Bill of Rights affirms the following:
For purposes of state/federal law, a person’s ‘sex’ is defined as his or her biological sex (either male or female) at birth;
For purposes of state/federal law, a ‘female’ is an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova; a ‘male’ is an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova of a female;
For purposes of state/federal law, ‘woman’ and ‘girl’ refer to human females, and the terms ‘man’ and ‘boy’ refer to human males;
For purposes of state law, the word ‘mother’ is defined as a parent of the female sex and ‘father’ is defined as a parent of the male sex;
When it comes to sex, ‘equal’ does not mean ‘same’ or ‘identical’;
When it comes to sex, separate is not inherently unequal;
There are legitimate reasons to distinguish between the sexes with respect to athletics, prisons or other detention facilities, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, locker rooms, restrooms, and other areas where biology, safety, and/or privacy are implicated;
Policies and laws that distinguish between the sexes are subject to intermediate constitutional scrutiny, which forbids unfair discrimination against similarly-situated males and females but allows the law to distinguish between the sexes where such distinctions are substantially related to important governmental objectives;
Any public school or school district and any state or local agency, department, or office that collects vital statistics for the purpose of complying with anti-discrimination laws or for the purpose of gathering accurate public health, crime, economic, or other data shall identify each individual who is part of the collected data set as either male or female at birth.
Read the Press Release here.
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