A Separate “Women’s Bill of Rights”
With the recent political activities, policies and EOs re: transgender women by the Dept. of Education’s use of Title 9 to require colleges to allow biological men to compete with women in their admissions activities, scholarships and athletics, the NCAA has joined the unfairness.
With that and a host of other societal changes along the lines of transgender women, a number of women’s organizations have come together to draft a “Women’s Bill of Rights.”
It rejects the idea that gender is a choice and therefore becomes a right for men to indicate that they really are women.
Without reviewing the long history of hard-fought advancement in women’s rights, a number of women’s organizations are saying ‘enough.’
Below is the draft of that Bill of Rights for women put together by those women’s groups and should remind all of us of changing the course of rights for women is not in their best interest.
The women behind the draft want legislatures, and especially Congress, to adopt and pass the reaffirmation of the rights of women as law and not open to the vagaries of politics, ideology or transgenderism.
I add, this shouldn’t be necessary – but current “woke” policies and bureaucratic protocols make it required now – and the right thing to do.
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 antidiscrimination 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.
We all should be supportive of the effort to spell out the inalienable rights of women who (unfortunately) now need restated protection – and that a course correction is in order.
It’s too bad that so many women feel they – and their children – have been put into untenable positions by their government, their schools and universities, and ‘woke’ corporations.
The idea that gender is not biological, but a choice, puts women at a disadvantage – again after so many years of progress to make a level playing field for women.
It’s interesting that there’s no instances of men feeling recent ‘gender fluid’ policy and mandates favor women. So, it only works one way. We don’t see transgender men encroaching on biological men because dependent on the setting and situation, the biological man has the advantage over the transgender man.
It shouldn’t need to be done, but current circumstances leave little choice but to adopt a “Women’s Bill of Rights.”
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