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Sep 25 6 tweets 3 min read
BREAKING: @kelseybolar shares real stories of female inmates who were housed alongside males before @JudiciaryGOP. 

🧵 Their horrific stories serve as a stark reminder of the importance of protecting sacred women’s spaces. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
iwf.org/2024/09/24/hea…
Alissa Kamholz: She says that prison was once her “safe place” away from male rapists who abused her throughout her childhood… until the women’s prison forced her to live with a man who used to frequent the gang clubhouse she was routinely abused in. iwfeatures.com/alissas-story/
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Aug 7 5 tweets 2 min read
MEDICAL SCANDAL: In a groundbreaking lawsuit, detransitioner Cristina Hineman is taking on Planned Parenthood for its role in handing out opposite-sex hormone prescriptions like candy. Watch her story told in the #IdentityCrisis series: ⚠️ Cristina obtained a testosterone prescription at her FIRST visit to Planned Parenthood less than a month after she turned 18.

A year later, just weeks after undergoing a double mastectomy to remove her healthy breasts, Cristina realized it was all a mistake.
Jun 21 8 tweets 5 min read
🚨 ATTACK ON FEMALE ATHLETES ON TOUR 🚨 BUS TOUR THREATENED: 
Overnight vandals violated nearly every inch of the Our Bodies, Our Sports #TakeBackTitleIX bus in Chapel Hill, NC. Egged & defaced with profanity & anti-woman messages. Radical gender ideologues on a mission to erase womanhood seek to keep us quiet. WE WON’T BACK DOWN. WOMEN WON’T BE SILENT. ourbodiesoursports.com/bus Bad enough they're throwing women under the bus, now they're throwing eggs at it. What's next⁉️
FULL LENGTH VIDEO OF VANDALIZED OUR BODIES, OUR SPORTS #TAKEBACKTITLEIX SUMMER 2024 TOUR BUS:
May 8 5 tweets 2 min read
🆕 Recently resigned prison guard Hector Bravo, @ThatPrisonGuard, sounds the alarm on the ‘immoral, dangerous’ policies that allow predatory male inmates with a history of sexual violence to be housed in women’s prisons. Watch NOW: @kelseybolar @andreajmew iwf.org/cruelandunusua…
“The plan was to do a full career, lengthy career, & retire & collect a pension. However, when things became dangerous, when people's lives were being affected & jeopardized…you put the troop’s safety first and foremost.” #ProtectFemaleInmates #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
Mar 1 7 tweets 2 min read
🚨 In the first episode of the mini-doc series, Cruel & Unusual Punishment, former inmate Jennifer Barela exposes the sex discrimination she & other incarcerated women faced at the hands of anti-women policies that allow men who identify as transgender to be housed with women. Watch NOW:
iwf.org/cruelandunusua… After Jennifer served 11 years in a women’s prison facility, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 132 into law, which allowed men to self-identify as transgender or non-binary & transfer into female-only prisons.
#ProtectFemaleInmates #CruelAndUnusual
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Aug 29, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
🆕BREAKING: Head Women’s Lacrosse Coach at Oberlin College is breaking her silence in an @IWF documentary after being “burned at the stake” for her support of single-sex sports & speaking out against allowing men in women’s sports.
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⚠️BURNED AT THE STAKE: In 2022, Coach Kim Russell shared a post on her Instagram opposing Lia Thomas competing in women's swimming, leading to a series of disciplinary meetings ripe with ridicule and reprimand organized by Oberlin College administrators.
iwf.org/kim-russell
Apr 20, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
🚨MUST WATCH: Speaking about her experience for the first time, Payton McNabb, a North Carolina high school athlete at Hiwassee Dam High School, shared her experience competing against a biological male in volleyball on the opposing team & the injuries she suffered as a result. Payton joined @IWF Spokeswoman @Riley_Gaines_ to share how biological males in female athletics is a safety concern at every level of competition. Payton's story is a devastating example of how women & girls suffer when biological males are allowed to compete in female athletics. Image
Apr 7, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
We strongly condemn the violence perpetrated against @IWF spokeswoman @Riley_Gaines_ on @SFSU campus. Riley was violently accosted, ambushed, and physically assaulted during a speech on sex discrimination women face in their own single-sex sports category. Riley is courageous in speaking up for truth, science and common sense. She has experienced firsthand the injustice female athletes face across America in their own sport. “Inclusion cannot come at the expense of women,” said Riley in a statement to media before the campus event.
Mar 24, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Prisha Mosley testified before the South Carolina Senate about her devastating experience with 'gender affirming care' and the pain she suffers with because of her medicalized transition, which began as a minor.

If you watch one thing today, it should be this.
@detransaqua Doctors have abandoned Prisha since she decided to take her life back following her medical transition.

Her story is a reminder of how dangerous and permanent these treatments are for minors and the responsibility that falls on medical professionals. iwf.org/2023/02/13/det…
Mar 23, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
📣SENDING A POWERFUL MESSAGE: This month 67 athletes filed an amicus brief to #SCOTUS in support of West Virginia’s law that protects women's sports.

Among these 67 incredible athletes is @Riley_Gaines_, 12x All-American, SEC Record Holder & IW Spokeswoman. Read more⤵️ Image Riley goes on to add this powerful line to the amicus brief...

"I still struggle with knowing the people who were supposed to shield us from harm and make sure our sport is ethical were the same people who were silent and allowed us to be discriminated against."
Feb 7, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Chloe Cole’s detransition story is a heartbreaking reminder that children do not know best. They cannot make informed decisions about life-changing ‘care,’ that will lead to more harm than good.

Our latest #IdentityCrisis series documentary tells @ChoooCole's story... Chloe began identifying as a boy at 12, began hormones at 13, went under the knife to remove her breasts at 15, only to regret it a few months later. She's speaking out about her identity crisis & how her ‘transition’ has taken something beautiful & uniquely female away forever.
Dec 1, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
The latest story in our #IdentityCrisis series tells the heartbreaking story of Prisha Mosley, a young woman whose life was permanently altered at the hands of ‘gender affirming’ medicine and doctors who performed a double mastectomy when she was 18. Telling her emotional story to @kelseybolar, Prisha says, “I just don't understand how, at that young age, plus literally not being with reality, I could make those decisions that would change my life forever.”
Nov 14, 2022 4 tweets 6 min read
Litigation to stop mutilation‼️

@ChoooCole and @pnjaban joined '@TuckerCarlson Tonight' to call out medical malpractice and how transitioning was pushed on her by medical professionals at 12 years old. @ChoooCole @pnjaban @TuckerCarlson Another brave woman speaking out is @catcattinson. Cat started testosterone after a 30-minute phone call with @PPFA and is now warning others of the harmful ‘gender-affirming care’ she received. iwf.org/2022/10/06/ide…
Apr 3, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
.@IWF calls on Congress to clarify federal law on campus sexual assault. #TitleIX #IWlaw #IWed #IWregs Washington, DC -- @IWF applauds the U.S. Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions for taking the first step toward clarifying federal law on campus sexual assault.
Apr 2, 2019 7 tweets 4 min read
Today is “#EqualPayDay.”

There are a lot of ridiculous holidays—from “International Talk Like a Pirate Day” to “Have a Party With Your Bear Day” to “Bubble Gum Day.” But “Equal Pay Day” is something worse. It’s a misleading effort designed to make women feel like they’re all, inevitably, being short-changed in their workplaces. That’s not the case.
Sep 26, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
In under 6 hours today, over 60 men women who attended Georgetown Prep or sister schools that knew #BrettKavanaugh well during his time in high school signed a letter to directly refute the allegations released earlier today by Michael Avenatti. #ConfirmKavanaugh 1/5 Dear Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Feinstein:

We are men and women who knew Brett Kavanaugh well in high school. We have seen reports today that Julie Swetnick, who says she graduated from Gaithersburg High School, submitted a declaration to the Committee 2/5