Support Female-Only Spaces in San Francisco!
March 20, 2025
There is a ground-breaking opportunity to express your support for female-only spaces and YOU can take action.
Some readers may be aware that last week, the San Francisco Bay Area group WomenAreReal sent several women to testify before the San Francisco Human Rights Commission about protecting female-only spaces in nude spas in the city.
Another group, ConnectedSF, has now launched a campaign for people to email the San Francisco Mayor and Board of Supervisors about the importance of maintaining female-only spaces. You do not have to be a San Francisco resident to take part in this action.
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ConnectedSF describes itself as ”a local organization dedicated to promoting stronger communities through civic engagement and informed citizenry. Founded in 2021, the organization actively supports and nurtures local neighborhood groups engaged in daily problem-solving to address community challenges. ConnectedSF believes in the power of citizen involvement to drive positive change and shape the future of San Francisco.”
The reason this is groundbreaking is that this is the first time ever that a local San Francisco civic engagement group has stepped up to protect women’s access to private, female-only spaces. This is not an official WomenAreReal campaign, but ConnectedSF did start this campaign due to WAR’s efforts to raise awareness of the issue of men in women's spaces.
The coalition-based nature of this effort means some language used in the campaign materials does not align with language that I would ever use in this Substack. Regular Substack readers know that I do not deviate from language that aligns with the material reality of sex. That will never change. At the same time, this campaign represents a groundbreaking effort by a local San Francisco group. I would love for readers to send supportive email messages.
The tool being shared by ConnectedSF allows you to edit your message, so there is no requirement that you use compromised language. Language that I would suggest is provided below.
ConnectedSF has decided to run an email campaign to their hundreds of SF voters to support two local spas:
Archimedes Banya, which tried to offer just one women-only night per month and may be facing an investigation by the Human Rights Commission; and
Imperial Spa, which tried to maintain separate facilities for women & men and was targeted with protests that set off smoke bombs in its parking lot.
Both establishments were publicly shamed for providing women-only accommodations. One of the men demanding unrestricted access to female-only spaces is a registered sex offender with a rape conviction and a higher-than-average risk of reoffending, according to California’s Sex Offender Registry.
The campaign provides a simple form for people to email the SF Board of Supervisors and Mayor in support of maintaining single-sex spaces. You can customize your message to reflect your own perspectives and language preferences.
This campaign aligns with the Democratic Women’s Declaration (DWD), which supports women’s right to female-only spaces and calls for the elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls. I launched the DWD to move the Democratic Party toward protecting the sex-based rights of women and girls.
Click on the button below to send your message:
Non-SF residents can simply select “Other” in the “District” field.
Here is some language that you’re welcome to copy/paste into the “Message” field, customize, or ignore:
Dear Supervisors and Commissioners,
I am writing to express deep concern over the SF Human Rights Commission’s investigation into traditional spas that offer sex-based accommodations for services like Korean body scrubbing. These policies ensure comfort, privacy, and cultural practices for women (i.e., adult human females) who may feel uncomfortable being naked around the opposite sex.
These businesses already offer mixed-sexed days and allow men who call themselves women and who have had their penises removed to access female-only spaces.
I am alarmed that one of the individuals demanding unrestricted access to female-only spaces is a registered sex offender with a rape conviction and a higher-than-average risk of reoffending, according to California’s Sex Offender Registry (meganslaw.ca.gov). This raises serious concerns about the safety of women and girls in intimate spaces where nudity is involved.
Using legal frameworks meant to combat racial discrimination to challenge biological sex distinctions ignores the fundamental differences between race and sex. While racial segregation was about enforcing inequality, sex-based distinctions in intimate settings are about women’s comfort, safety, and dignity.
I urge you to support common-sense accommodations that protect women and girls on the basis of sex. Please ensure that local businesses are not unfairly pressured into eliminating practices that serve the needs of women, immigrants, and those with cultural or religious considerations.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Onward. Let’s help these spas maintain single-sex spaces and obtain a major win in San Francisco. And feel free to share this post!
I sent this message:
Dear Supervisors and Commissioners,
We are writing to express our family's deep concern over the SF Human Rights Commission investigation into San Francisco spas offering single-sex spaces.
We are lifelong Democratic political activists and women's rights advocates. Every Democrat and liberal should be vehemently protesting the elimination of women's female-only spaces.
What is this SF HRC investigation in aid of?
Men who choose not to use men's male-only spaces?
Men with an overriding desire to appear naked among unconsenting naked little girls and women?
Men like Dwight Austin--a convicted rapist with an “above average risk” of reoffending--who demanded naked access to the female-only spaces at Archimedes Banya?
Is this what the SF Human Rights Commission stands for: forcing little girls and women to accept rapists in our female-only safe spaces?
Is this what our foremothers fought for: the complete and total loss of girls' and women's rights, over which those heroic women made such appalling sacrifices?
Is San Francisco now a city that stands on the side of violent male supremacy?
It has been many years since left-wing San Francisco teenagers learned of the dangers of transgenderism and rejected it as the assault on their human rights and bodies that it is.
When will San Francisco adults catch up with them?
Please stand with girls and women in protecting our rights to safety, privacy, and dignity in our own world.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Done. Just so you're aware, the part of the text you posted, "men...who have had their penises removed," was not the same text at the link. It had been changed to "bottom surgery," and I changed it to emasculation.