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Wolf Urges Court: Keep Male Hacker out of Women’s Jail
Paige Thompson is a man who claims to identify as a woman. He also recently committed one of the largest data breaches on record, and has a history of threatening violence.
Women’s Liberation Front Files Friend-of-the-court Brief in Harris Funeral Homes V. Eeoc and Aimee Stephens
Case highlights the importance of distinguishing between sex and gender for purposes of interpreting nation’s civil rights laws and highlights First Amendment implications of compelling speech.
PPFA’s Politics Are a Danger to Themselves and Others
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has now fired a doctor, their most recent president, Dr. Leana Wen, in part because she refused to use medically inaccurate language to refer to the sex of patients who become pregnant.
Supporting Selina to save Girls’ High School Sports
Please see this letter that WoLF has submitted to the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, in support of Selena Soule’s complaint against her school and track officials.
California Legislators Vote Again to Endanger Women in Prison
Yesterday, California’s Assembly Public Safety Committee passed SB 132, a corrections bill already passed by the Senate, directing prison officials to house inmates by gender identity, rather than by sex.
Bergdorf, Jones, Makings, and the Reckless Endangerment of Us All
Owen Jones thinks we at WoLF should be embarrassed over talking to conservatives at the Heritage Foundation?
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Boyertown Students’ Privacy Concerns over Gender Identity
We are deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court has failed to take up the case of Doe v. Boyertown, where we had filed a brief. The decision not to hear the case was announced yesterday. It means that a lower court’s decision — to let the Boyertown school district end students’ rights to privacy in single-sex locker and restroom facilities on the basis of gender identity — will stand.
HUD Plans to Restore Ability to Provide Women-only Shelters and Services
HUD (the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) has announced that it will publish proposed regulations in September 2019 to restore the ability of HUD grantees to provide single-sex emergency shelters and services for people experiencing homelessness and domestic violence.
California Legislature Poised to Put Men in Women’s Prisons under SB 132
California Legislature Poised to Put Men in Women’s Prisons under SB 132
Statement on Supreme Court Title VII Transgender Claims
The Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) is cautiously optimistic about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to review questions about how federal employment discrimination laws apply to specific types of sex discrimination claims.
Celebrating Lesbian Visibility
In honor of today, Lesbian Day of Visibility, WoLF wishes to share this reflection on an intimate gathering about Lesbian Erasure written by our member, Kacie.
The Washington Post ‘celebrates’ Women’s Civil War History by Erasing It
Based on a comment thread complaint over Twitter, the Washington Post recently decided that Jennie Hodgers, who fought in the Civil War as Albert Cashier, needs to be understood historically as if she were a man.
Julia Beck Testifies on Gender Identity in H.R. 5, the Equality Act, at the House Judiciary Hearing
Julia Beck Testifies on Gender Identity in H.R. 5, the Equality Act, at the House Judiciary Hearing
Women’s Liberation Front Statement on Introduction of the Equality Act
Recently, in a Palm Springs, CA, swim center, three teenage girls were traumatized by encountering a naked man showering in the women’s locker room. They reported this to the police, who did nothing, because the man “identifies as a woman.”
WoLF’s Week of Action in DC: Link Roundup
Members of the Women’s Liberation Front took part in a week packed with political action and organizing, January 26 – February 2, 2019. We’ve collected links to information and media here to commemorate that week.
Julia Beck Testifies to Congress: Gender Identity Undermines Women’s Space
Watch Julia testify how interpreting sex as “gender identity” under VAWA has made it impossible to maintain women-only spaces for survivors to heal away from the presence of men.