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It’s not about whether being transgender is real or not. It’s not about whether identifying as a gender other than that which one is born with is righteous or not.

It’s about protecting women and children.

It’s about safety and privacy for women and girls in public spaces. It’s about protecting the rights and opportunities of women. It’s about not allowing male-bodied athletes to retain spots, playing time, scholarships, and victories that belong to women, both young and old.

And it’s about retaining our sanity as a people.

Have we lost our minds? It seems we have. Right is left, left is right, one plus one equals two (depending on your skin color), good is evil and evil is good. We are in serious trouble.

Margaret Oneal Monteleone, a then-freshman in high school, would have taken first place in her first-ever high school track meet if a biological male had not been allowed to steal her victory.

Selina Soule competed for a qualifying spot at the New England Regional Championships in the 55-meter dash but the first and second spots were taken by two male athletes. The unfair advantage cost Selina the opportunity to compete in front of college scouts.

Chelsea Mitchell, a high school sprinter, was well on her way to state titles and awards until the same two males were allowed to compete, resulting in her loss of four state championship titles.

Both science and common sense agree that men are faster, bigger, and stronger than women. We have fought too long and too hard to lose our equal opportunity all over again. And if losing titles, positions, scholarships, and opportunities isn’t priority enough, our personal safety should, at minimum, take precedence over helping natal males feel included among women. Sadly, that isn’t the case.

Just last year a Virginia juvenile court judge ruled that a male teenager sexually assaulted a female student in a Loudoun County high school restroom. He was wearing a skirt. The school’s response? While still under investigation he was transferred to another school where he allegedly assaulted another female student. Not surprisingly, this took place in a state where democrats voted to end school administration reporting of sexual battery to law enforcement.

Something has to be done. And Republicans are doing something. Something BIG. On May 19, 2022, House Republicans, led by Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., introduced the Women’s Bill of Rights Congressional Resolution to codify our common definition of the words ‘female,’ ‘woman,’ and ‘sex’ before Leftism erases it completely. While the same activists who organize the Women’s March wearing masks that say“Feminist as F***” work to eliminate biological sex categories, the Women’s Independent Voice brought bi-partisan voices together to double down on protecting women’s freedom.

Check it out:

WOMEN’S BILL OF RIGHTS

“Whereas, males and females possess unique and immutable biological differences that manifest prior to birth and increase as they age and experience puberty;

Whereas, biological differences between the sexes mean that only females are able to get pregnant, give birth, and breastfeed children;

Whereas, biological differences between the sexes mean that males are, on average, bigger, stronger, and faster than females;

Whereas, biological differences between the sexes leave females more physically vulnerable than males to specific forms of violence, including sexual violence;

Whereas, females have historically suffered from discrimination in education, athletics, and employment;

Whereas, biological differences between the sexes are enduring and may, in some circumstances, warrant the creation of separate social, educational, athletic, or other spaces in order to ensure safety and/or to allow members of each sex to succeed and thrive;

Whereas, inconsistencies in court rulings and policy initiatives with respect to the definitions of ‘sex,’ ‘male,’ ‘female,’ ‘man,’ and ‘woman’ have led to endangerment of single-sex spaces and resources, thereby necessitating clarification of certain terms,

We affirm that:

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/federal 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 federal/state/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.”

—https://www.iwv.org/campaign/womens-bill-of-rights/

Nailed it.

After all our progress as women, it’s hard to imagine we are even having this conversation at all; even more difficult to imagine it happening in America. And yet here we are.

I hope you will join me in signing the Women’s Bill of Rights to protect the definition of a woman and (hopefully) restore some sanity to our nation. Click here to sign.