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Xfinity, Stop Glorifying and Glamorizing “Gender-Transitioning”

On the home page of its streaming app, Xfinity is glorifying and glamorizing “gender-transitioning” with a hyper-sexualized image of two transgender-identifying actors. The app has NO age restrictions.

This portrayal distorts the real experiences of a growing number of detransitioners who underwent medical interventions to try to present as the opposite sex and are now experiencing regret and trauma as they realize the lasting physical damage done by these “treatments.” The lie that anyone can simply switch sexes should not be promoted by activist entertainment companies, especially when following it to its logical conclusion all too often leads to lifelong medical regrets for precisely the people it purports to help.

Pediatric pharmaceutical interventions that activist doctors claim only “pause” puberty are actually irreversible, as are cross-sex hormones. In fact, just a few months of cross-sex hormones can permanently alter a person’s voice and physical appearance, while also causing medical issues up to and including loss of sexual function and infertility. Indeed, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and other medical therapies that ideologically motivated activists are attempting to normalize and promote are selling many vulnerable young women and men a lie and destroying their healthy bodies in the process.

Big business has the responsibility to stop glamorizing “gender-transitioning.” Send a message to Xfinity leadership and urge them to remove this harmful content from their streaming platforms.

Tell the LPGA, USGA & IGF: Keep Women’s Golf Female

In the world of sports, it is impossible to provide equal athletic opportunities for both sexes without single-sex categories. The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), United States Golf Association (USGA), and International Golf Federation (IGF) currently allow male golfers to qualify, compete, and win in women’s golf.

This isn’t fair to female golfers. In fact, this is sex discrimination.

Join people from across the world to urge the leadership of LPGA, USGA, and IGF to stand up for equal opportunity, fairness, privacy, and safety by enacting policies that keep women’s golf female.

*IMP: Personalize the email before you click send — add your sport and school, include personal stories, and concerns about safety and privacy.

Tell the NCAA Board of Governors: Protect Women’s Collegiate Sports

In the world of college sports, it is impossible to provide equal opportunities for both sexes without single-sex teams. By allowing biological males on women’s teams the NCAA is denying women roster spots, playing time, and opportunities to compete.

This is sex discrimination.

Tell the NCAA Board of Governors to follow the lead of the NAIA and protect women’s collegiate sports and establish a new policy keeping women’s sports female.

*IMP: Personalize the email before you click send — add your sport and school, include personal stories, and concerns about safety and privacy.

Meta Oversight Board Comment Drive

Meta (Facebook and Instagram) has almost 4 billion active users and moderates content based on Community Standards. Its “Bullying and Harassment” Community Standard generally requires removal of targeted bullying against children and bullying that the victim specifically asks to be removed. This means that videos of trans-identifying men entering women’s sports and spaces, or generally identifying these males as males, is allowed on Meta platform. And for good cause. Frank discussion about and the visualization of trans-identifying males in women’s sports and spaces has been crucial to protecting women, and preserving truth itself.

But all that may change.

Meta’s Oversight Board is considering removing two videos that currently abide by Community Standards: one of a trans-identifying male in a women’s bathroom, who asserts a right to be there, and another of a male winning a women’s athletic competition, upsetting many participants and their parents. We believe these two videos are here and here.

In this removal process, the Oversight Board is considering “policy recommendations” that would better consider “the rights of transgender people, especially for access to single-sex spaces and participation in sporting events.” The Oversight Board’s removal decisions are final. Its policy recommendations are not final, but extremely influential to changing Meta’s Community Standards.

The stakes could not be higher. If truthful, real-life discussions about biological sex are banned from Meta, the uniqueness of womanhood, not to mention the progress of women, will be eroded. A speech-prohibitive policy would cripple any large-scale movement to protect women’s sports, domestic abuse shelters, prisons, or overnight camps. But censoring the truth has consequences far beyond this. Threatening the reality of sex works to dissolve the very fabric of our society.

Independent Women’s Forum plans to submit comments on behalf of women and men across this country who wish to speak honestly on this topic. Use this form to tell Meta why this speech matters to you, this country, and our future generation.

The Left will say that leaving these sorts of videos up threatens lives. That’s dangerous and false, but it’s one that will resonate with decision makers at Meta. The trans-identifying population is online and does have a high suicidality rate, and Meta is cognizant of that. Those in favor of women, truth, equal dignity, civilization, speech, inner peace, and happiness must be equally serious.

To that end, the best type of comment could address, for example:

How sex-based speech (including videos) protects women;
How sex-based speech informs the public to best accommodate both trans-identifying individuals and women in tandem;
How censorship of sex-based speech would cause harm in ways the Board may not be thinking about;
How sex-based speech is not harassment;
How social transition ultimately harms many trans-identifying individuals; or
That Meta would lose credibility as an organization for taking such an extreme position.

While comments should recognize the enormity of the consequences, be compassionate, persuasive, and thoughtful in your entries.

For those wishing to submit a more robust comment to Meta directly, click here.

Tell Planned Parenthood Stop Prescribing Life-Altering Drugs to Vulnerable Teens

A growing number of people who underwent medical interventions to try to present as the opposite sex are experiencing regret and trauma as they realize the lasting physical damage done by these “treatments.”

Detransitioners are shocked to learn that drugs to “pause” puberty are not reversible and that a few months of opposite-sex hormones can permanently alter voices and physical appearance, and that weak bones and elevated cancer risks are among potential fallout.

Planned Parenthood is a chief source of drug therapy prescriptions for minors and young adults seeking to present themselves as the opposite sex. Detransitioners, including those featured in IWF’s Identity Crisis series, have described how, when experiencing confusion about their identity, they reached out to Planned Parenthood and were quickly prescribed life-altering drugs. Planned Parenthood received in excess of $500 million in taxpayer funding in 2023—so these “treatments” are being paid for at least in part by your taxpayer dollars.

It would be impossible for these young people to ever fully understand the risks and irreversible damage these drugs could cause. Now, detransitioners struggle to find practitioners able to oversee their medical care as they seek to live again as their natural biological sex. These detransitioners deserve better treatment, and at-risk communities need more protection from those who would rush them toward a medically unnecessary and harmful “treatment” plan.

Send a message to Congress to investigate how Planned Parenthood is misusing your taxpayer dollars and has become one of the country’s largest suppliers of these hormones and other therapies that are destroying the healthy bodies of so many vulnerable young women and men.

VICTORY! Mayor Eric Adams, Stand for Fairness and Equality

UPDATE: Victory! Over 3,000 letters were sent to Mayor Eric Adams, urging him to reinstate Maud Maron to her elected school board seat. In a huge win for fairness and equality, Maud has been restored to her position.

Independent Women’s Forum recently joined a coalition of ideologically diverse national women’s organizations to stand behind Manhattan Mom and former Democratic candidate for office Maud Maron after she was abruptly banished from her elected position on New York City’s Community Education Council for District 2 (CEC 2)—the city’s largest parent council.

In February, Maud was quoted by the New York Post speaking out about antisemitism at her daughter’s high school. Chancellor David Banks claims the February quote was the reason she was booted from her elected seat on Friday, June 14.

A coalition of national women’s organizations from across the political aisle believe this was a fig leaf justification to oust a council member who is a champion for women—Maud knows what a woman is and has been a vocal advocate for protections for women, including prohibiting male athletes from participating in women’s sports. She joined the first Our Bodies, Our Sports rally in Washington, DC on June 23, 2022. Serving on CEC 2 since 2017, she has been an unwavering advocate for high-quality education, parent rights, and especially for Jewish children and families and has demonstrated exceptional dedication to the educational well-being of NYC public school children.

Send a message directly to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, urging him to reinstate Maud Maron to New York City’s Community Education Council for District 2! It is imperative that he uphold principles of fairness and equality, ensuring that all communities feel represented and supported.

As May Mailman, Independent Women’s Law Center Director, said, “Mayor Eric Adams is overseeing a school system, run by Chancellor David Banks, that devastates the core American value of debate. Maud has the true but ‘wrong’ opinion that women should be asked before giving up their sports to men and that anonymous speech is cowardly. New York schools shut that down. We should all be fearful of this shockingly successful quest to rid certain, truthful viewpoints from the public sphere.