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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.

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.

Take Back Title IX

The Biden administration, despite claiming otherwise, is using Title IX to require schools to allow males who identify as women to compete on women’s sports teams and to receive athletic awards for females. 

Released on April 19, 2024, the Title IX Omnibus Rule codifies the Biden administration’s unlawful dissolution of women’s sports by demanding that spaces for female athletes, like locker rooms, be assigned based on gender identity. The Biden administration’s unlawful Title IX regulation unilaterally rewrites the landmark sex equality law and undermines women’s rights, free speech, and due process. 

Not only is this unfair to female athletes, it is an inversion of the very purpose of Title IX, which was to protect educational opportunities, including athletic ones, for female students by protecting them from discrimination. This new Omnibus Rule, which governs all aspects of the educational experience and will go into effect on August 1, turns Title IX on its head through extra-statutory regulations that require schools to allow males to self-identify into women’s spaces, opportunities, and athletics.

What the Rule Does: 

  • Male Invasion of Women’s Spaces 
  • Denial of Due Process
  • Violation of Parental Rights 
  • Infringement on Freedom of Speech 
  • Mandating Harmful Medical Practices

As Riley Gaines, former 12-time All-American swimmer at the University of Kentucky and Independent Women’s Forum ambassador said: “With its new Title IX rewrite, the Biden administration is unilaterally erasing fifty years of equal opportunity law for women. The president and his administration can’t act like they care about women or our opportunities and then go and wipe out women’s protections under the country’s landmark sex equality law.”

The CRA has passed the House, and we must now put pressure on the Senate. It’s time to TAKE BACK TITLE IX. Feel free to personalize the message and share how women’s sports and spaces have benefited you

It’s time to fight back. Send a message directly to your legislators urging them to overturn this harmful Title IX rewrite through the use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions, introduced by Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS). 

For more information on the effects of the New Title IX Regs, check out these resources:

Commit to Standing with Women!

Words like ‘female,’ ‘male,’ ‘man,’ and ‘woman’ are used thousands of times in state and federal law. Politicians are redefining these words and separating them from biology and their true meaning.  We need to define terms like ‘woman’ in order to prevent sex discrimination and preserve women’s rights, safety, and opportunities.

71% of Americans want assurance that men won’t gain unfettered access to women’s spaces and athletic and academic opportunities. We need to have language to provide this protection.

When these sex-based words don’t have uniform, biological definitions, women pay the price.

Urge your Members of Congress to commit to legislation that upholds laws that preserve female opportunities and private spaces. Show that you support leaders who are pro-woman, pro-science, and will fight for policies that prevent sex discrimination and preserve women’s rights, safety, and opportunities!

For more information on the full Hope Agenda, click HERE.

Please sign the Stand with Women Commitment at standwithwomencommitment.com .

Planet Fitness, Protect Our Rights!

Planet Fitness is endangering its female members.

A Planet Fitness gym in Alaska allowed a trans-identifying biological male into a female-designated bathroom. The individual was caught shaving in front of a 12-year-old girl in a towel.  

When a female member complained, the gym canceled her membership and banned her from returning. Planet Fitness is standing by this decision

By allowing biological men to use female-designated bathrooms, Planet Fitness is compromising both privacy and safety for its female members and ignoring the very real dangers posed by men in women’s spaces.

Photo Credit: Libs of TikTok https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1770450725728129261?s=20

Planet Fitness must understand that women have a right to speak their minds and to fight for private spaces. The company should not force women—some of whom are underage or have been victims of sexual assault and don’t want to have to change in front of biological men—into situations that make them uncomfortable and put them at risk.  

Take Action! Send a message to Planet Fitness leadership to respect the privacy and safety of their female members. 

Show women of all ages that they have support and can stand up to Planet Fitness. Together, we can ask for a policy change that supports common sense protections for women! 

Etsy Must Stop Viewpoint Discrimination!

Etsy has banned products and sellers that criticize the government, make political points that they don’t like, or stand up for women’s rights.  

Over a year ago, Etsy banned merchandise made by a biologist affirming that biological sex is real. Instead of following the standard review process, the company permanently revoked his Etsy store and account for violating “a policy aimed at preventing the sale of products that promote violence toward protected groups.”  

Nearly a year later, Etsy threatened to permanently ban Independent Women’s storyteller, Laura Becker, from selling on Etsy because her products acknowledged the harms of gender ideology and the stories of detransitioners like herself. At first all of Becker’s products—even those that have nothing to do with gender identity—were removed or listed as unavailable. While Becker is allowed to sell now, her products related to detransitioning are still listed as unavailable on the popular e-commerce site. Learn more about her story here.

Etsy hasn’t stopped its viewpoint discrimination. It has now banned one-of-a-kind homemade ornaments made by female entrepreneur, Isabel, that criticize the government. Isabel proclaimed in response, “If our voices held no power, they wouldn’t be trying to silence us!!!”

Etsy will not stop viewpoint discrimination unless we do something about it!        

As Becker declared, “It is time to boycott Etsy. They do not support free speech, women, or medical trauma survivors.” 

Tell Etsy Execs to STOP viewpoint discrimination and the silencing of truth.