8th Place: A High School Girl’s Life After Transgender Students Join Her Sport
May 6,
by Kelsey Bolar
While the debate over transgender athletes and fairness is complex, the situation in Connecticut has brought forth another complicating layer: Plenty of parents and high school girls appear to object to the participation of biological boys in girls sports, but fearing public bullying and backlash, they’re not speaking out.
How Pelosi’s Equality Act Would Ruin Women’s Sports
April 24,
by Emilie Kao, Heritage Foundation
Women shouldn’t have to compete against men in order to play sports. Yet that’s exactly what is happening increasingly across the country and around the world, as a growing number of male athletes who self-identify as women are being allowed to enter women’s competitions. The so-called Equality Act would only worsen this trend.
The Orwellian Dangers of the “Equality Act”
April 24,
by Alfred Kentigern Siewers
By redefining “sex,” a basic term of human discourse, the bill would create a new official vocabulary to be policed by an administrative state, with flagrant disregard for religious pluralism—and biology. Its twisting of language evokes the totalitarian vocabulary of Newspeak in Orwell’s 1984. There, too, language was changed to ensure social control.
Is It Fair Play? How Female Athletes Are Losing in the Age of Gender Identity
April 17,
by Doreen Denny, Concerned Women for America
We all know that athletics is an avenue for developing traits that are formative for girls and lead many women to break through glass ceilings. Title IX has been the foundation for much of this progress. But the errantly-named ‘Equality Act’ will unravel the very foundation of equal opportunity for women in sports.
Anti-Discrimination “Equality” Law Exemptions Do Not Lead to Fairness for All: An International Perspective
April 2, 2019 | Public Discourse
by Paul Coleman, ADF International
Although exemptions are often billed as a compromise, the evidence suggests that they will never be enough to satisfy those who think religious believers are discriminating and getting away with it. The “compromise” soon becomes a zero-sum game with only one winner.
How The So-Called Equality Act Threatens Speech, Religion, And Women’s Rights
April 1,
by Chad Felix Greene
Despite the universal appeal of the name and its noble promises, which 69 percent of Americans support in concept, the act poses a major risk to those who value religious freedom, state independence, and women’s rights.
Politicizing Health Care Puts Kids and Consciences at Risk
April 1,
by Monica Burke, Heritage Foundation
Physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals must be free to exercise their best medical judgment when treating their patients. The Equality Act would impose one view on the entire profession, not as the result of new scientific discoveries or professional consensus, but by ideological fiat.
Don’t be fooled ladies – the Equality Act is a threat to all of us
April 1,
by Doreen Denny, Concerned Women for America
The bill would create a world in which women and girls are no longer recognized, protected or dignified as uniquely female. In jobs, education, sports, shelters or any public space, any biological man classifying himself as a woman according to his “gender identity” would have every claim to any women’s program, scholarship, sports roster, competition, boardroom, executive office, women’s shelter, bathroom, locker room or job.
‘Equality Act’ would turn back the clock for women
March 16,
by Kristen Waggoner, Alliance Defending Freedom
Coercive SOGI legislation is bad news for everyone, and no token carve-outs or religious exemptions can relieve the array of wrongs advanced by this type of law.
The Nature of Sex
February 1,
by Andrew Sullivan
What the radical feminists are arguing is that the Equality Act doesn’t only blur the distinction between men and women (thereby minimizing what they see as the oppression of patriarchy and misogyny), but that its definition of gender identity must rely on stereotypical ideas of what gender expression means.
Fairness For All? On SOGI Laws and Otherworldly Beauty
December 19, 2018 | Center for Public Theology at Midwestern Seminary
by Owen Strachan, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
The evangelical movement—and the religious community more generally—seems largely asleep in the face of its peril.All too often, SOGI laws sound like a gentle rain but end up a hurricane for religious people. This is not opinion; this is cold, hard fact.
Pelosi’s Top Legislative Priority Would Punish Dissenters on LGBT Issues
October 30,
by Ryan T. Anderson, Heritage Foundation
Compelling governmental interests can at times trump fundamental civil liberties, but laws on sexual identity and gender identity do not pass this test.
Canadian Court Rules Parents Can’t Stop 14-Year-Old From Taking Trans Hormones
March 1,
by Jeremiah Keenan
The Supreme Court of British Columbia thinks it’s okay for doctors to override a parent’s wishes and administer trans hormones to his child.
Transgender Athletes Who Compete Against Women Are Cheats
February 27,
by Britt McHenry
We don’t allow steroids in professional sports, so why should we allow genetic enhancement or alteration drugs in amateur sports?
SOGI Laws: A Subversive Response to a Nonexistent Problem
September 28,
by James Gottry, Alliance Defending Freedom
Now is not the time for proponents of religious freedom to partner with proponents of sexual orientation and gender identity legislation in hopes of catching a few crumbs of liberty that fall from the table.
A Brave New World of Transgender Policy
January 1,
by Ryan T. Anderson, Heritage Foundation
With shifting definitions taking root, commonsense policies regarding bodily privacy and sound medicine are now simply being redefined as “discrimination”—just as “sex” is being redefined as “gender identity.”
The Washington Times: Equality Act would create inequality for women
March 25,
by Emily Kao, Heritage Foundation
Our female-only spaces — bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories — are places where we expect to be free from the male gaze, naked male bodies and sexual assault. Adding SOGI removes that safety.
VIDEO: USCCB is Against Changes to the Civil Rights Act
uploaded March 22, 2019 | EWTN
with Monica Burke, Heritage Foundation
Proposed changes to the Civil Rights Act would feature sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) as protected characteristics. Monica Burke of The Heritage Foundation explains the plan and why the USCCB is among the Catholic groups against it.
H.R. 5 Is No Act of Equality
March 25,
by Emily Kao, Heritage Foundation
The proposed Equality Act (H.R. 5) would empower the federal government to impose civil and criminal punishments on citizens who dissent from SOGI ideology.
VIDEO: Protecting the Rights of Women and Girls in the Age of Gender Identity
uploaded March 25,
Since the UN Commission on the Status of Women first met at Lake Success, NY in 1947, discussions of women’s equality have focused on the equal treatment of women as compared to men. But what will happen if men can simply self-identity as women?
VIDEO: Gender Equality and Gender Ideology: Protecting Women and Girls
March 20,
New interpretations of gender are impacting how people understand what it means to be a woman or girl. Experts will speak on how these new interpretations are impacting the identity, equality, privacy, and safety of girls and women, how schools and social protection systems are being affected, and what the bioethical, physical and psychological consequences of implementing these new interpretations are.
Why ‘Fairness For All’ Legislation Actually Produces More Discrimination
September 14,
by James Gottry, Alliance Defending Freedom
Its cuddly name aside, careful study of ‘Fairness for All’ legislation reveals that the proposed legislation is poorly conceived, demonstrably unfair, and wholly incapable of achieving its aims.
No Middle Ground: Evangelical Leaders Reject Compromise on LGBT and Religious Rights
January 12,
by Kate Shellnutt
Opponents of Fairness for All legislation worry that such compromises offer too limited protections at the expense of designating SOGI as a protected class—a position they believe has deeper moral implications for Christians.
Critics question ‘Equality Act’ exclusion of religious freedom
March 14,
Federal legislation purporting to guarantee equality explicitly rejects religious freedom protections and would open the gates to anti-discrimination lawsuits against religious believers and institutions who disagree with the bill’s broad view of LGBT discrimination, critics said.
Democrats call it the Equality Act. These dissident feminists call it the Female Erasure Act.
January 29,
by Greg Piper
It turns out progressive leaders aren’t eager to have a public debate over the next wave of the “men’s rights movement” – the derisive term these women use to describe transgender activism.
Nancy Pelosi’s ‘Equality Act’ Would Be Disastrous. Here Are 5 Likely Victim Groups.
March 20,
by Monica Burke, Heritage Foundation
The Equality Act would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes under federal civil rights law. But whereas the original Civil Rights Act of 1964 furthered equality by ensuring that African-Americans had equal access to public accommodations and material goods, the Equality Act would further penalize everyday Americans for their beliefs about marriage and biological sex.
PODCAST: The Equality Act and the Threat to Religious Freedom
March 18,
with Andrew Walker
Andrew Walker of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention joins Colson Center President John Stonestreet to talk about this very real threat to our religious freedoms.
The Equality Act Accelerates Anti-Christian Bias
March 11,
by Andrew T. Walker
The Equality Act represents the most invasive threat to religious liberty ever proposed in America. Given that it touches areas of education, public accommodation, employment, and federal funding, were it to pass, its sweeping effects on religious liberty, free speech, and freedom of conscience would be both historic and also chilling.