Who is marginalized and who is doing it?
The WDI USA Lesbian Caucus writes to the U.S. Department of Education
On January 30, 2024, the Campaign for Southern Equality (“CSE”) filed a Title IX complaint against the North Carolina State Board of Education and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Plaintiff alleges, among other things, that “North Carolina’s public schools are systematically marginalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students in violation of Title IX” by enforcing recently passed legislation called “The Parents’ Bill of Rights.”
The next step is for the U.S. Department of Education (“the Department”) to review the complaint and decide whether or not to open an investigation into the matter. On February 5, 2024, the WDI USA Lesbian Caucus sent a letter to the Department relating only to CSE’s allegation of marginalization. Here’s that letter:
To the United States Department of Education:
Women’s Declaration International (WDI) is a global, nonpartisan group of volunteer women dedicated to protecting women’s sex-based rights. WDI USA is its U.S. chapter, and we are the Lesbian Caucus of that chapter.
The founders of WDI created the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights (the Declaration) to lobby nations to protect women and girls on the basis of sex, which is biological, rather than “gender” or “gender identity,” which is a claimed feeling. Based on well established principles of international law, the Declaration has over 37,000 signatories from 160 nations.
We are writing with respect to the Title IX complaint (attached) filed January 30, 2024, by the Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE) against the North Carolina State Board of Education and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The complaint states, in pertinent part, that “North Carolina’s public schools are systematically marginalizing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students in violation of Title IX” by enforcing Senate Bill 49, “The Parents’ Bill of Rights.”
This sweeping statement should be rejected because it is not S.B. 49 that marginalizes lesbians; it is those who claim to speak for the so-called “LGBTQ” community who marginalize and even erase lesbians as a class.
As we recently wrote: “Whereas the LGB coalition was based on sex and same-sex attraction, the new “LGBT” centers ‘trans’ and ‘gender identity’” [emphasis added].
According to the Lesbian Bill of Rights, a lesbian is by definition a “human female homosexual; or, a woman or girl who is exclusively same-sex attracted.” But if men can be lesbians, and bisexual women can be lesbians, it is lesbians who cease to exist as a coherent category in law and in public life. For the crime of categorically denying sexual access to all men, lesbians are in fact effectively erased as a coherent group by transgenderist activists, both in terms of definition and in terms of the ability to meet as lesbians in public spaces to socialize or organize politically, and threatened with violence precisely for being what lesbians are, i.e., female.
The intrusion of transgender ideology (the TQ+) into a demographic (LGB) based on sexual orientation (“forced teaming”) has had the effect of marginalizing — or even erasing — lesbian community, culture, and rights. Examples include bans on lesbian-only public gatherings; medical interventions on the healthy bodies of young lesbians whose behavior doesn’t conform to feminine stereotypes; destruction of women’s sports through the unfairness of forcing women to compete against men; and the housing of violent men with women (including lesbians) in women’s prisons, women’s domestic violence shelters, and women’s hospital wards. In contrast, SB 49 marginalizes lesbians far less, if at all.
We urge you not to open an investigation in this matter; or, if you complete an investigation, to dismiss this complaint.
The Lesbian Caucus
Women’s Declaration International USA
