May 8, 2024
On May 6, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) announced that it had filed a motion to intervene in the matter of Gaines, et al. v. NCAA, et al. Information about this case is available on the website of the group Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), which is funding it.
Shortly after the complaint was filed in Gaines, et al. v. NCAA, et al., I participated in a ICONS press conference with several of the female athlete plaintiffs (video of that event is also available at ICONS). During the press conference, I said:
In the fight to protect the sex-based rights of women and girls, people often ask, “Where are the feminists?!” Well I’m here today to tell you that the feminists are standing strong in support of female-only sports and spaces and in support of the female athlete plaintiffs in this lawsuit.
Women’s Declaration International is the leading global organization that works to advance women’s sex-based rights all over the world. It does so by promoting the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights, which challenges the discrimination and oppression we experience from the replacement of the category of sex with that of so-called “gender identity” in law and policy. Our work is grounded in leftist radical feminist principles. We are leftists. We are feminists. We are lesbians, bisexual, and straight women. We fight for women and girls as a sex class.
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We are a nonpartisan organization that works with groups across the political spectrum. Speaking solely for myself, I am a lifelong Democrat who is ideologically left of the Democratic party. From a leftist feminist perspective, so-called “gender identity” is a regressive, sexist, homophobic concept that has no business being enshrined in law or policy.
I am a daughter of the second-wave movement for women’s liberation, which hailed from the political left. Those feminists didn’t fight to secure women’s sex-based rights only to have them all thrown under the bus at the altar of the regressive concept of “gender identity.” So, for anyone tempted to ask, “Where are the feminists,” I’m here today to say that we’re right here, standing alongside these amazing female athletes to say no to men in women’s sports and spaces. Thank you.
NWLC states that it “fights for gender justice—in the courts, in public policy, and in our society—working across the issues that are central to the lives of women and girls.” So NWLC’s motion to intervene in the case was to join these brave female athletes in their fight to secure fairness and justice for women and girls in sports, right?
No.
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