October 27th, 2022
Article 7: Reaffirming women’s rights to the same opportunities as men to participate actively in sports and physical education.
Article 10 (g) of the CEDAW provides that States Parties shall ensure ‘‘[t]he same Opportunities to participate actively in sports and physical education’’ for girls and women as for boys and men. This should include the provision of opportunities for girls and women to participate in sports and physical education on a single-sex basis. To ensure fairness and safety for women and girls, the entry of boys and men who claim to have female ‘gender identities’ into teams, competitions, facilities, or changing rooms, inter alia, set aside for women and girls should be prohibited as a form of sex discrimination.
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.
