In January 2022, thanks to the generosity of our donors—96% of them women—WDI USA volunteers sent a copy of Board President Kara Dansky’s The Abolition of Sex to every member of Congress. We included personal messages from constituents and supporters in each package, urging Senators and Representatives to read the book and listen to our concerns.
In the Senate, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla of California received the most citizen dedications (followed closely by Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York).
In the House, Representative Pramila Jayapal of the Seattle area had the most messages, edging out Representative Earl Blumenauer of the Portland area by just one constituent.
Supporters around the country wrote clearly and forcefully in support of sex-based rights. Some anonymized highlights:
Sex based rights, which used to be taken for granted, and are fundamental to women’s dignity, privacy, and freedom, are being undone at an alarming pace. This book helps explain why that is, and what can be done to help women and children regain their rights, and steer us on a better course in the future.
Every member of Congress needs to read Kara Dansky’s book and understand that this is not a conservative or liberal issue—or just a women’s issue, even though it harms women and girls disproportionately. Gender ideology is an attack on reality itself.
Please protect women’s sex-based spaces! Being a woman is NOT a feeling. It is a biological reality!
Please, please read this yourself and see what we women are facing. I’m a former Democrat (as of 2018) who has been appalled and flabbergasted at how callously and contemptuously women’s rights, protections, and even the very language to describe ourselves are being thrown away and overwritten.
Placing male rapists and murderers in women’s prisons because they ‘identify’ as women is beyond cruel to female inmates. Telling girls that they must share their locker rooms and undress alongside any boy who says he feels like a girl against their will is not ‘inclusion’, it’s abuse of girls. Forcing women who have been raped and battered by men to share communal bedrooms in crisis shelters with male strangers who self-identify as female is shockingly callous. Pretending that you don’t know male athletes are faster and stronger than females and taking fair, safe sports away from women and girls, who fought decades to get them, is misogyny.
Replacing ‘sex’ with ‘gender identity’ in the law does all of this and much more that harms women and girls. I am gutted to see how little the party that I have voted, campaigned and bled for cares for me and other female voters now.
Trans people should be free to think of themselves however they like but they are not the opposite sex, and it is not a human right to force the entire world to pretend that one’s subjective beliefs are real.
