April 12, 2024
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As regular readers know, I recently launched a series called FFS (Female Free Speech) Friday to honor women who are speaking out about the sex-based rights of women and girls. Previous posts can be found here and here. Today’s post is in honor of Lorraine Nowlin, a board member and coordinator of the Black Women’s Caucus of Women’s Declaration International USA (WDI USA). The Black Women’s Caucus’s Statement Against Gender Ideology (which JK Rowling has posted on X) is here.
On Sunday April 7, Lorraine attended a virtual town hall on Zoom with her representative in the US House of Representatives, Jim Himes (D-CT). He is the incumbent running in District 4 in Connecticut. Constituents were invited to ask questions of the representative by posting them in the Zoom chat.
This is the question Lorraine put in the chat:
I am so grateful for the opportunity, as a concerned voter, to speak with you. People have strong opinions on the issue of women’s sex-based rights and gender identity ideology. As a woman and mother of daughters, I am also concerned and this serves as the basis for my question. Do you believe that women and girls, as a sex class, have a right to meet, form single-sex organizations, use single-sex public bathrooms, participate in single-sex sports, etc., excluding the sex class of men and boys? If so, will you fight to protect those rights?
The town hall organizers skipped right over her question, even though the questions immediately preceding and following hers were posed to the representative, who answered them.
Lorraine says:
The most important thing we can do as voters is make an informed choice. That is why I try to find out as much as I can about candidates before voting. This is not limited to a political party, but all candidates.
My question was one of only three posted in the Zoom chat so I cannot help but be curious about why it was not answered since the other two were. I am aware that Himes co-sponsored the Equality Act which would allow discrimination based on sex to include “gender identity.” However, constituents need to be able to ask questions of elected officials when they make themselves available during town halls and similar events. Those who are lawmakers or candidates will be making decisions that will impact all of our lives. We must be allowed to have our concerns addressed.
She is right, of course. Being able to ask questions of our governing officials (of any party) is vital to the functioning of a democracy. For Representative Himes to simply ignore her is appalling behavior on his part. You can find him on X at @jahimes if you’d like to call his attention to this matter.
But there’s something even more insidious going on here. It was specifically her question that was ignored. It was a question about protecting women and girls as a sex class. Elected Democrats can never answer questions like Lorraine’s, because they know the truth that sex is real. They just refuse to say it out loud.
To Lorraine and all the other women speaking up about women’s sex-based rights: THANK YOU.
We will never stop fighting. Keep speaking, women.
This precisely why the numbers of Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender are growing! Di-Ag.org
While I am a conservative, I hope that democrat politicians will soon begin to see they are on the wrong side of history on this issue. I pray they will begin to realize the horrific damage gender ideology has caused and is causing to the youth of our country. I hope they will see, and publicly acknowledge, the significant damage it is doing to women’s spaces and places. Thanks for sharing this Kara. #SaveWomensSports