Victory! Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules: Men Are Not "Natural Born Females"
In 2021, WoLF submitted an amicus brief in the case of Green v. Miss USA—Today, the Ninth Circuit affirmed that the #FirstAmendment protects against being forced to say that men can be women
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From today's ruling:
"The district court held that the First Amendment protected the Pageant’s expressive association rights to exclude a person who would impact the group’s ability to express its views—"
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"...The panel agreed that summary judgment for the Pageant was correct, but reached this conclusion not under the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of association but rather under the First Amendment’s protection against compelled speech."
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WoLF advocates for women's freedom of expression, freedom of association, & free speech
In 2021, we argued that gender ideology is unscientific & harmful to women and that men should not be considered as "natural born women" in expressive associations, e.g. pageants
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WoLF is thrilled to share this news ahead of our updated legal analysis—We invite you to read about our 2021 amicus brief here: womensliberationfront.org/news/green-v-m…
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We are thankful for the generous women and men who donate to support this vital legal defense of women's #SexBasedRights! 💪
From $5 to $100, we are immensely grateful for your support! Pledge to support our feminist work this GivingTuesday! womensliberationfront.org/giving-tuesday
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A whistleblower shared with Sasha Stone at @AwardsDaily that the controversial decision won a 26 to 27 vote in favor of removing award categories for women. The next voting meeting to finalize the decision will be held on December 11, 2022.
Since 1972, Congress has interpreted "sex" under #TitleIX as allowing differential treatment based on sex in some settings, including single-sex athletics, toilets, locker rooms, & showers. These exist to ensure women have safe, equal access to educ. opportunities. #SexNotGender
This week, ACLU filed a Motion to Intervene in WoLF’s California lawsuit challenging SB 132, which allows men who self-identify as women into women-only prisons: womensliberationfront.org/news/aclu-move… 1/6
Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center, and the ACLU foundations of Northern California and Southern California are representing four incarcerated men along with the Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project (“TGIJP”). 2/6
The ACLU objects to the state’s choice to slow the transfer the more than 300 men who have sought transfer to women’s facilities, one-third of whom are sex offenders (though the ACLU denies this documented, material fact in its court pleadings). 3/6
2/9 Dr. Devin Buckley, a feminist philosopher and WoLF board member, was scheduled to speak at Harvard University on her cutting-edge work on British Romanticism and philosophy.
3/9 But on April 18th, Dr. Buckley was notified that she had been disinvited, citing her board membership with "an organization that takes a public stance regarding trans people as dangerous and deceptive."
WoLF is proud to join other advocacy organizations to sign this letter demanding charges against Chrystul Kizer be dropped. We stand in solidarity with trafficked women and girls. womensliberationfront.org/news/wolf-sign…
Chrystul was only seventeen when she was trafficked by Randall P. Volar. Volar had already been under investigation for sex crimes against underage girls, and he raped Chrystul repeatedly.
Chrystul says she was resisting another rape attempt when she shot and killed Volar.
We believe Chrystul needs rehabilitation and support, not a lengthy prison term.
On December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine brought a gun to the École Polytechnique in Montreal. He went to a mechanical engineering class, separated the men from the women, and opened fire on the women. He said he was "fighting feminism."
Lepine shot all nine women in the room, killing six. He roamed for a further 20 minutes, targeting women. He killed eight more women before killing himself.
Today, we remember their names.
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Anne St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte