2024 has been an electrifying year for our radical feminist efforts in the courts of law and public opinion! Thanks to your unwavering support, WoLF has fiercely advocated for women’s rights and achieved monumental strides in the relay run towards the total liberation of women and girls.

As the leading US radical feminist 501(c)(3) nonprofit, WoLF has boldly filed trailblazing lawsuits, amicus briefs, and rulemaking petitions to restore, protect, and advance the sex-based rights of women and girls. This year, in addition to our increased legal capacity, we also expanded our efforts to address commercial sexual exploitation and male violence, marking 2024 as a success in raising public awareness of these threats.

Together, we shine as a beacon of hope for women and girls—tirelessly advancing legal arguments, championing pro-woman policies, and highlighting the importance of sex-based rights!

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OUR 2024 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

LEGAL ARGUMENT

A RECORD-BREAKING SEVEN AMICUS BRIEFS FILED

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Filing amicus briefs allows organizations like WoLF to influence courts without being party to a legal case. Through our feminist legal arguments, WoLF weighs in on significant legal cases that affect sex-based rights: single-sex spaces, free speech and association, women’s sports, child “gender” medicine, and more.

This past July, WoLF filed an amicus brief in a potential landmark employment case supporting a teacher who was forced to resign for refusing to comply with transgender policies in Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corp in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

In September, WoLF filed an amicus brief in Tennessee v. Cardona to support a Title IX injunction in the Sixth Circuit to protect Title IX. This amicus brief would be the first of THREE briefs submitted this past year to preserve equal opportunities for women and girls in athletics, academics, and other educational environments.

Thanks to our expanded legal capacity, WoLF submitted THREE amicus briefs in October alone!

Firstly, WoLF filed two amicus briefs: one to the Tenth Circuit in Kansas v. U.S. Dept. of Education and the other to the Fifth Circuit in Louisiana v. U.S. Dept. of Education, fighting to protect Title IX and women's sex-based rights in schools and universities. WoLF joins 26 states in fighting the Biden administration’s egregious Title IX regulations that erase women and girls.

Secondly, WoLF filed an amicus brief in the US v. Skrmetti Supreme Court case, supporting Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors to protect children from irreversible medical treatments. This case will determine whether “transgender” status should be considered under “heightened scrutiny,” like sex and race.

Finally, WoLF filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit to support two women fired by Alaska Airlines for opposing the Equality Act, highlighting the importance of protecting women's right to freedom of speech in the workplace.

This past November, WoLF submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton to support Texas's anti-porn law, arguing that online pornography is harmful to children and that state action is necessary to protect them. This case is scheduled to be heard by the US Supreme Court on January 15, 2025.

WoLF filed SEVEN amicus briefs this past year, breaking our record for the most filed within a year! A massive ‘Thank you!’ to our donors and legal volunteers for making this critical work possible.

IMPACT LITIGATION: CHANDLER V. MACOMBER

On November 17, 2021, WoLF filed a lawsuit challenging a California law, one that allows men to "self-identify" and be housed in women's facilities, seeking to have it overturned as unconstitutional. Despite ongoing efforts by advocacy groups, including the ACLU, to uphold the disastrous law, WoLF remains steadfast in our fight to protect incarcerated women, highlighting the dangers and inhumanity of the current law, SB 132.

It has taken several years for meaningful progress to be made in this lawsuit, but WoLF donors like you have continued to bring hope to incarcerated California women! This past May, the district court issued a procedural dismissal of Chandler v. CDCR. In response, this past July, WoLF filed a new complaint in the landmark case now called Chandler v. Macomber, adding two new plaintiffs and several years of new evidence.

Original plaintiffs in *Chandler v. Macomber*

WoLF filed a new Opposition to the Motion to Dismiss in late October, countering attempts by the state and trans activists, including the ACLU, to dismiss the plaintiffs’ case. We argued against the false premise that these men do not pose “a unique threat to women” in prisons, reinforcing our commitment to protecting incarcerated women. This groundbreaking lawsuit is ongoing, and the fate of California’s incarcerated women has yet to be determined.

POLICY ADVOCACY

FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY

On National Girls & Women in Sports Day, WoLF endorsed the Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act (HR 7187), which aims to prohibit men from competing in women’s sports. This legislation was introduced this past March in response to growing concerns about gender identity policies that put female athletes at risk of physical harm and loss of awards and medals.

This year, WoLF's legal team expertly guided our regulatory advocacy, especially on the crucial Title IX federal regulations. WoLF raised the alarm this past April when Biden’s Department of Education erased women from its federal regulations. By redefining "sex" to include "gender identity," these changes undermine the original intent of Title IX, putting women’s safety and opportunities at risk. Over the entire Biden presidency, especially this past year, WoLF has proactively fought to preserve Title IX by filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, rulemaking petitions, and public testimony. The US Department of Education even portrayed the public comments as overwhelmingly positive. However, our FOIA was denied so we appealed and had the denial overturned. We are still waiting to receive a response from the federal government.

President Biden nominated Judge Sarah Netburn to the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in April. Her nomination posed a grave threat to the safety of women and girls in custody due to her history of support for “gender identity” self-ID prison policies. Thanks to YOU, our incredible supporters, we sent an avalanche of letters to the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing alarm and concern. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Ted Cruz highlighted the significant opposition from women’s groups like WoLF and Woman II Woman. Sen. Jon Ossoff broke party ranks to vote against Netburn’s confirmation, making him the first Democratic senator to oppose a Biden nominee in committee!

STATE LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY

This past January, WoLF submitted testimony to support Alaska’s HB 254, a bill aimed at prohibiting minors’ access to online pornography by holding commercial entities accountable for age verification – and protecting children from the harmful effects of exposure to explicit content. WoLF testified to support a similar bill in California (AB-3080), but it died in committee.

As a testament to the effectiveness of these age-verification bills, Pornhub became inaccessible to Texas residents this past March, thanks to HB 1181! (This law is now at the center of FSC v. Paxton, for which WoLF submitted an amicus brief!) The age verification laws have had a profound effect: Pornhub reported access to their site dropped by 80% after Louisiana passed its law in early 2023. So far, WoLF has helped pass age-verification laws in 19 states, with four more states pending, to prevent minors from accessing pornography!

In February, Arizona took a historic step by becoming the third state in the nation to pass the Women’s Bill of Rights (SB 1628), the landmark model legislation co-authored by WoLF. Although we asked WoLF supporters to urge her to sign it, Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed the law this past April. WoLF also helped to introduce the Women’s Bill of Rights in New Mexico (HB 205) and Virginia (SJ49). The Women’s Bill of Rights (WBoR) survived an initial court battle in Kansas this past March as well when a judge ruled against sex marker changes on ID. The Kansas WBoR is currently under appeal in Kansas v. Harper. As a testament to the need for sex-based protections, the WBoR has now been enacted in some form in Kansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Idaho, Nebraska, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana!

In April, WoLF assisted Ohio legislators in mandating that bathrooms in schools and colleges be single-sex spaces. Our supporters in Ohio answered our calls to action and encouraged Gov. Mike DeWine to sign HB 183 – we thank you! We also helped pass a similar bill (HB396) in New Hampshire, with testimony from our Legal Director, but Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed it.

INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY

This past year, WoLF obtained membership with the Non-Governing Organizations of the Conference on the Status of Women at the United Nations. In July, WoLF Executive Director Sharon Byrne presented at the WDI UK conference in London on how gender identity advocates infiltrated the United Nations.

This past November, WoLF helped organize protests in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago, and New York against Germany’s Self-ID law, which punishes misgendering with a €10,000 fine. Women protested in London, Berlin, Wales, Paris, Spain, Canada, India, Australia and New Zealand. It was one of the first global protests against “gender identity” self-ID laws!

PUBLIC EDUCATION

CIVIC EDUCATION & ADVOCACY TRAINING

On International Women’s Day 2024, WoLF hosted the “Women to the Front” 10th anniversary conference to bring attention and action to the issues facing women and girls. The powerful all-woman conference focused on advocating for sex-based rights and women’s safety, highlighting the challenges women face in the prison systems and emphasizing their fundamental human right to single-sex spaces. Other crucial topics covered included commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls within pornography, the struggle to protect single-sex sports, and the rights of parents in their efforts to protect children from social transitioning and subsequent “gender affirmation” medicine. Gathering in Santa Fe, New Mexico, inspiring WoLF conference speakers included:

Lierre Keith, WoLF Founder and Special Envoy, Writer & Activist
Sharon Byrne, WoLF Executive Director
Lauren Bone, JD, WoLF Legal Director
NK Stade, JD, WoLF Board Secretary and former federal regulator
Erin Friday, Esq., California Attorney
Dr. Melissa Farley, PhD, Prostitution Research & Education
Dr. Suzanne Vierling, Clinical Psychologist
Mary Lou Singleton, FNP-BC, Family Nurse Practitioner

Subject matter experts, women’s rights advocates, and grassroots organizers trained WoLF conference attendees to orchestrate grassroots advocacy on all fronts for sex-based rights – from building relationships with state legislators, tracking pertinent bills, and submitting public testimony. We are proud to report that some attendees went on to become first-rate advocates for women’s rights and have achieved success in passing legislation, starting relationships with their elected officials, getting op-eds published in the media, and introducing young people to the harms of gender ideology and its impact on women’s rights.

PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS

This past January, WoLF joined women’s organizations in petitioning the NCAA to protect women’s sports by ensuring fair competition and preserving the integrity of women’s athletics. This would be the first of multiple collaborative efforts WoLF joined this year to hold the NCAA accountable for their abandonment of women and girls.

During our Women to the Front conference, Slate published an article falsely claiming that WoLF held anti-abortion stances. In response, WoLF called out Slate for its lies and emphasized our ongoing support of women’s reproductive sovereignty since our founding. We also criticized Slate for not fact-checking its claims, which have since been corrected.

Immediately following our Women to the Front conference, WoLF Executive Director Sharon Byrne presented at the 68th session of the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women. WoLF’s presentation asserted that women and girls cannot achieve equality because they cannot escape poverty, discrimination, and human trafficking, while prostitution, surrogacy, and pornography exist unchallenged. Our participation aimed to refocus women’s liberation on addressing the root problem: the sex-based oppression of women and girls.

This past April, WoLF sent an open letter to NPR demanding fair and balanced coverage of “transgender” and gender identity issues. In response to Dr. Hilary Cass’s groundbreaking NHS report, WoLF published a feminist critique of NPR’s biased reporting, which aligns with transactivist groups. We called for an internal audit of NPR’s past coverage and a return to impartial, factual journalism. Hundreds of WoLF supporters stepped up once again to send letters to NPR supporting our critiques!

WoLF, along with over fifty clinicians and researchers from ten different countries, demanded that the FDA take action against the off-label use of puberty blockers in children this past April. We highlighted the lack of evidence supporting these interventions and the potential lifelong harm caused by these drugs. Our coalition called for a systematic review by the National Academy of Sciences and long-term studies to assess the effects of puberty blockers.

Also, in April, WoLF submitted input to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, in response to a call for input on the violence faced by women and girls in sports. Our submission highlighted the risks female athletes face from male coaches and doctors, as well as the men and boys self-identifying into their teams, locker rooms, and athletic competitions. In our submission, we emphasized the need for protections that ensure female athletes’ safety and sex-based rights. This input contributed to a report presented to the UN General Assembly to address these critical issues facing women and girls.

In July, following the initial dismissal of Chandler v. CDCR, Tremaine Carroll, placed in the Chowchilla Women’s Facility in 2021, was charged with two counts of rape committed inside the women’s facility. WoLF broke the story nationally and internationally and ran a billboard on a major highway in California to wake the public up to what’s happening in prisons:

WoLF supporters from Northern California and WomanIIWoman’s Amie Ichikawa joined the protest at Carroll's preliminary trial to raise awareness of the human rights violations suffered by incarcerated women. DNA evidence recently proved that Carroll has also fathered at least one child with a third woman while housed at the women’s facility. His case is expected to go to trial early next year. The court recently ruled on a motion to force the use of “preferred pronouns” in court. It is not clear whether this ruling also requires witnesses (including the victims) to refer to the defendant with opposite sex by feminine pronouns and say he is a woman.

In August, WoLF organized a global response to a statement by UN Women framing women’s rights advocacy as an “anti-rights movement,” which outraged feminists worldwide. In collaboration with MATRIA, WoLF launched “United Women for Women’s Rights,” an open letter signed by women’s organizations across the globe demanding that UN Women return to its mission of women’s equality and empowerment worldwide. Over 70 women’s rights organizations worldwide signed on, and more than 5,000 persons added their names. Each signature triggered emails to staff within the UN that pushed gender ideology or were going along with it. We encouraged our US WoLF supporters to contact UN Ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield about the US pushing gender ideology within the UN. We received feedback that these efforts had rattled the UN!

In September, WoLF organized the Pennsylvania Upraising in Philadelphia to raise public awareness about violence against women and girls. We reached out to nearly every representative in Pennsylvania, from Congressional officials to city council members. We worked with a bipartisan coalition of Pennsylvania legislators to propose legislation to advance women's and girls’ rights. As a result, Pennsylvania remedied its underfunding of rape kits and passed harsher penalties for the distribution of child sexual assault images!

In October, WoLF helped to uncancel a public event titled “Males and Females Are Different, and That Matters in Sports.” The Tewksbury Public Library initially canceled the webinar by Dr. Gregory Brown due to public backlash from transactivists – another example of censorship and assault on freedom of speech. In response, WoLF decided to platform Dr. Brown at the exact date and time of the original event. Thanks to the intervention of WoLF and concerned citizens, the library opted to reverse its decision and host the event.

Earlier this month, WoLF joined Do No Harm and partners like LGB Alliance USA, Our Duty, The Courage Coalition, WDI USA, and others to protest during the U.S. v. Skrmetti oral arguments at the steps of the US Supreme Court. This highly publicized legal case considers whether “transgender” status should be regarded with “heightened scrutiny,” typically applied to sex and race.

LOOKING AHEAD TO 2025 & BEYOND

Together, we’ve seized enormous opportunities to set groundbreaking legal precedents that protect freedom of speech from gender ideology, safeguard children from irreversible “gender affirmation” medicalization, preserve single-sex sports, defend against compelled speech in the workplace, and curb the online distribution of sexual abuse images and videos to children.

Your incredible support is how this small band of feminists is punching far above our weight class! With supporters like you, we’ve made tremendous contributions to the fight for women’s rights since 2013—and there’s no stopping us now!

Year in Review: 2024

OUR 2024 ACCOMPLISHMENTS