September 29th, 2022
Article 6: Reaffirming women’s rights to political participation on the basis of sex
(a) States “shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in the political and public life of the country’’.
This should include forms of discrimination against women which consist of the inclusion in the category of women of men who claim to have a female ‘gender identity’. All measures taken specifically to improve women’s access to voting rights, eligibility for election, participation in the formulation of government policy and its implementation, the holding of public office, performance of all public functions, and participation in non-governmental organizations and associations concerned with public and political life, should be based upon sex and not discriminate against women by the inclusion of men who claim to have female ‘gender identities’.
(b) States should ensure that the ‘‘Adoption by States Parties of temporary special measures aimed at accelerating de facto equality between men and women’’ shall apply only to persons of the female sex and shall not discriminate against women through the inclusion of men who claim to have female ‘gender identities’.
Speakers:
Marian Rutigliano, Secretary, Women’s Declaration International USA
Maud Maron. Maud Maron is a Democrat who ran for New York City’s City Council in 2021 and for U.S. Congress in 2022. She is a former public defender and active “open schools mom” who served as the elected President of Manhattan’s largest School Board. She has #IStandWithJKRowling in her Twitter bio and as a result was prohibited from participating in a town hall in her own district in Brooklyn during her 2022 run for Congress.
