Thanks to you, we raised $5,353 in 24 hours and will be filing an amicus brief in Chandler v Macomber. Your gifts got us close enough to the goal that we found a way to make it happen — we’ll be filing jointly with two organizations that share our views on incarcerated women’s rights: Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender (DIAG) and Women Are Real (WAR). We’re proud to be able to take up this fight on behalf of the most vulnerable women in one of the country’s most captured states.
Our joint brief will argue that the plaintiffs’ case should have survived a motion to dismiss; that CA SB 132 is unconstitutional on the basis of equal protection, cruel and unusual punishment, and freedom of speech and religion; and that housing men in women’s prisons is a violation of women’s sex-based rights.
“DIAG is pleased to be signing onto this brief. We stand with our formidable partners and the incarcerated women who have had to endure the most unthinkable violations of their sex-based rights so that the State can elevate the demands of males. That California’s Democratic lawmakers are responsible for this travesty is shameful. We hope this case and brief serve as a much-needed reality check to those who have legislated against this vulnerable population of women.”
“Women Are Real is proud to add our name to this brief alongside our partners who have refused to look away from what is being done to women and girls in the name of gender ideology. Incarcerated women are among the most vulnerable and least visible women in this state, and they have been made to carry the cost of a policy that treats women’s safety as less important than men’s, a policy written into law by the very officials elected to protect them.”
Here at WDI USA, we’re grateful to those who gave once to help us meet this moment as well as to those who stepped up with new recurring contributions! If you’re curious about the breakdown, 70 individual contributors made this possible. Gifts ranged from $5 to $500, with an average gift of $76.47 and a median of $50.
We’re also grateful for your help beyond donating. Chandler v. Macomber is our third amicus this year, and there’s more legal work to be done, in the realm of incarcerated women’s rights and in other arenas. Are you a female lawyer interested in contributing to briefs advocating for women’s sex-based rights? Do you have connections to or tips about grant-making organizations — either nonprofits or foundations — that might be interested in funding work like ours? Let us know so we can be better prepared for future opportunities to be heard!
Thank you again, and stand by for us to share the brief that you’ve made possible.
