There is not a single legacy women's organization that is working for women

If you've been supporting organizations like the Women's Sports Foundation, you'd better read Women's Liberation Front's Open Letter to Legacy Organizations That Lost Their Way

Women’s Liberation Front’s Open Letter to Legacy Organizations That Lost Their Way is addressed to a long list of formerly pro-woman orgs—big name organizations that feminists from the 1960s and 1970s would recognize, organizations that nearly all have the word “woman” in their name—whose mission has been headspinningly turned against women by defining woman as anyone who identifies as a woman. Which is to say, men. It’s a distressingly long list. From my sports perspective, I was particularly aggrieved, but not surprised, to see the Women’s Sports Foundation, Know Your IX, Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, and Women Leaders in College Sports. I wrote a three-part investigation into the Tucker Center’s most recent betrayal, a gender ideology indoctrination program for coaches, so I’m familiar with the sickening discovery that, though their names have not changed, these organizations’ missions have flipped 180 degrees. They’re now actively giving away women’s rights to men.

The betrayal is indeed a gut punch, especially since it’s so widespread. Women’s Liberation Front’s (WoLF) letter is so comprehensive, so honest, so unsparingly true, it should be required reading for anyone who hasn’t been paying attention to what, for example, the National Organization for Women has been up to lately, as well as lawmakers and policymakers who use these organizations as the voice of women. Which they do.

The Letter can be found on WoLF’s website, and I encourage you to read it, bookmark it, and reference it when you tell these organizations why you no longer support them. It’s also reprinted in full below, following a short conversation I had with WoLF Legal Director Lauren Bone. Read on:

The Female Category: Who wrote this letter? Who are the people in WoLF?

Lauren Bone: We’re a 501c3 charity run by radical feminists. We address issues that are forgotten by mainstream women's rights organizations. We’re a small organization so we have to pick our battles—gender identity and sex in law, sports, single sex spaces, we have a lawsuit in California over men in women's prisons, pornography, prostitution, reproductive rights and bodily sovereignty. Mainstream feminist organizations don't work or are actively working against women’s rights in these areas.

TFC: I’m in alignment with every issue you just listed but I’ve never thought of those issues or myself as being radical.

Lauren Bone: Radical refers to going back to the roots of feminism rather than meaning extreme.

TFC: Why did WoLF write the letter now?

Lauren Bone: It started a ways back. In 2019 we wrote a shorter letter of no confidence to LGB organizations like GLAAD, the ACLU, Human Rights Campaign, those claiming to fight for gay rights. We’d go to court to testify and there’d be women’s rights groups on the other side. The National Center for Lesbian Rights, for example, would be arguing that Lesbian groups must include men who identify as women. I mean, if you’re prioritizing anything other than sex, you’ve lost the plot. Because those are legacy groups, they’re getting a lot of money, and they’re doing things with that money that work against women's interest. We’re doing our best in the face of a tsunami of organizations that are supposed to be our allies.

TFC: Seems like the list of women’s organizations who HAVEN’T capitulated to gender ideology would be shorter. Why do you think so many women’s organizations, and women in general, have completely gone 180 and are supporting women’s subjugation? Is it about money?

Lauren Bone: It’s true. We’re not aware of any legacy organizations that actually support women. They’ll support certain women’s issues but not women as a whole distinct sex. That’s why the nonpartisanship aspect of our letter is so important. It’s important to realize women don't have allies on the left or the right. The right has been gifted the sports issue and the left supports reproductive rights but if they can’t recognize the distinction between the sexes, they can’t protect women’s rights. And neither political party recognizes that distinction. Sometimes women’s rights are seen as an equality problem, that women need exactly the same rights as men. That disregards the differences between the sexes. Women need the right not to be exploited, single-sex spaces, dignity, sports, reproductive rights—sex-based rights.

I don’t think it’s as simple as here’s some money to be a traitor. Yes, I think money affects decision making, it affects priorities and anti-discrimination things in grants. Money allows gender ideology to tiptoe in, but I don't think it explains why so many organizations capitulated to gender ideology. There are social reasons. Women are expected to be kind and make space and be nurturing. That’s the reason feminists get a lot more vitriol than conservatives do when we stand up for women’s rights. We’re the traitors. We’re not supposed to be mean. Conservatives are expected to hate LGBT people. Women in these organizations who have friends or family who identify as nonbinary or trans, they’re very influential too.

TFC: As is recently being revealed about sports organizations like the IOC, they did not have to violate women’s rights and spaces—they chose to. They simply don’t care about women’s rights. And that given half a chance, a large swath of our society was willing to institute policies that they knew to be misogynistic. Many women are really taken aback by how easily rights we thought we had attained, finally being recognized as full and distinct human beings, were stripped away. How did that happen?

Lauren Bone: We can only speculate. There are money angles, cultural and social things, legal things, the political work tying gay rights to trans rights. WoLF has lots of lesbian and bisexual members. No one has been thrown to the wolves by this ideology more than lesbians. Men who call themselves lesbians are one of our concerns. Some Title IX anti-discrimination organizations will say you can have an LGBT campus center but you can’t have a lesbian support group. They’ve taught themselves to pretend that conflicts don't exist. But obviously you can’t have a space for one sex that allows all people in.

TFC: I think it’s easy for women who think of themselves as progressive to pretend that men in women’s spaces is no big deal because they’re very unlikely to be affected. They’ll never be in a women’s prison, likely never be in a rape crisis center, don’t do competitive sports.

Lauren Bone: Everyone is progressive until they have a naked man in front of them.

TFC: That reminds me of Joyce Carol Oates, a vocal “progressive,” who said she didn’t believe there were any trans-identified men in women’s prisons. What is the backstory to this sentence in WoLF’s Open Letter: “And stop asking us to send Ms. Magazine into prisons, when all it will do is further injure the women by demonstrating your support for men identifying their way into women’s prisons.”

Lauren Bone: Ms magazine has definitely done a lot of fluff pieces about “trans women.” It’s much more annoying when legacy women’s organizations do this stuff—meet this woman, etc. And they fall all over themselves talking about a man who has invaded women’s boundaries and taken women’s rights. Women’s organizations are adding to the harm that’s already been done.

TFC: I’m really glad you mentioned the raging sexism within the trans movement in this section: “The women, the ‘trans men,’ in your movement do most of the intellectual and organizational heavy lifting behind the scenes, and occasionally make the news for having a baby. The men, the ‘trans women,’ get all the media attention, awards, and high profile jobs, and generally get to speak for everyone. This classically sexist pattern of publicity and work promoted by movement leadership springs from the same mindset that has decided that the civil rights cause of our day is to ‘desegregate’ emergency shelters for deeply traumatized women.”

TFC: Have you heard from any of these organizations?

Lauren Bone: [laughs] No.

TFC: Do you expect to?

Lauren Bone: No. They don't want to bring attention to it [their betrayal of women]. They want us to go away. I would have been pretty surprised to get a response. They don't feel they have anything to answer for. If they defended themselves, it would appear as if they’d done something wrong. They’d have to reconsider decisions they’ve made. If they stay quiet, and we’ve put our position out there, then we’re the bad feminists. We’re horrible people. We promote the conspiracy that trans women aren't women.

Here is WoLF’s Open Letter in full:

Open letter to legacy organizations that lost their way

Jul 23, 2025

To the National Women’s Law Center, National Organization for Women (NOW) Ms. Magazine, American Association of Women Professors, Equality Now, Women in Animation, Women’s Sports Foundation, National Women’s Studies Association, American Association of University Women (AAUW), California Women’s Law Center, Clearinghouse on Women's Issues, End Rape on Campus, Equal Rights Advocates, Feminist Majority Foundation, Gender Justice, Girls Inc., Know Your IX, Legal Momentum, The Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Women's Political Caucus, Southwest Women's Law Center, Surge Reproductive Justice, Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, Women Leaders in College Sports, Women's Law Project

To: The political agents, civil society, foundation funding, and media leadership of the former women’s rights movement.

Regarding: Your abandonment of the women and girls you purport to work on behalf of; your support of programs that increase the risk of violence against women and girls; your misrepresentation of medical and biological science; your ignoring of the crimes committed against women in prison by men, your support of efforts to secure extraordinary privileges for predatory individuals by obliterating the rights of every woman and girl you claim to speak for; your degradation of women and girls by supporting policies that admit men to the sex class of women and girls; your complete undermining of female athletes; and your silencing of women and girls who dissent.

Petitioners request: That you cease the following behavior, apologize to your natural constituencies, and make restitution for damages to the rights of others and the reputation of your purported communities, or resign your claims to speak on behalf of the rights and interests of women and girls in light of the following:

Elevation of Male Thoughts and Feelings About Women Over Women’s Experience:

Women and girls are oppressed because of their sex, yet you have accepted men’s definition of woman that devalues women's shared physical experience, overlooks male violence statistics and the corresponding need of women and girls to trust their instincts and judgment, and that reduces women to sexist stereotypes.

Using language that negates physical reality and degrades women:

By using and encouraging preferred pronouns you facilitate the idea that woman is not a state of biology.

Destroying children’s safety and safeguarding mechanisms:

By supporting and encouraging men to identify as women and permitting them access to women-only spaces children are put at risk when predators are able to adopt a disguise and the children are taught that this is acceptable and to ignore their instincts.

Supporting policies and language that increase the risk of violence to women:

By embracing the language and policies of gender identity ideology you have increased the risk to women as the barriers designed to prevent male access to women in vulnerable spaces and conditions are eroded.

Misuse of science:

Sex is determined by objective, physical criteria, not mental states. Mammals can’t change sex. Some doctors and scientists may go along with changing social or legal markers out of an attempt to be polite or ease suffering, to save their careers from the online mob, or to attract a new market in patients, but they’re never going to submit a peer-reviewed paper documenting a case in which a human being changes from male to female. Nor will they submit a paper worrying over the pronouns of cows, or classifying any animal research subjects by sex on any basis other than the type of gamete they’d produce if they were healthy and reproductively active. Stop encouraging the idea that sex is a “social construct.” Stop claiming that the fact that sex exists is “white colonialism,” as though colonial-era Europeans were the only people who ever figured out how babies are made, and no one else knew until they showed up. This is nonsense on par with claiming that the Earth is flat and it makes everyone who repeats it sound ridiculous.

Misuse of suicide statistics:

In addition to basing claims of high suicide rates on poorly designed surveys, movement leaders advance the idea that suicide risk is both a reason to immediately give in to demands, and to immediately claim that the undefinable category of “transgender people” are the most oppressed of all. Suicide rates are related to a mix of cultural and socioeconomic factors, and prevention experts warn strongly against the counterfactual and simplistic attribution of self harm to any single cause. Not only that, but extensive data gathered over decades demonstrates that the phenomenon is not straightforwardly tied to oppression. If oppression were judged by that standard, white men would be the second most oppressed people in the US, after only Native American men, having a suicide rate more than twice as high as Hispanic, black, or Asian men, or women of any ethnic background. We implore you as leaders to invest some time becoming familiar with the guidelines issue by the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention for developing responsible messaging about suicide, and learning to avoid the very real threat of spreading suicide contagion. As to coercive suicide threats — which movement leadership seems to have trained people to issue on behalf of themselves or others, often related to medical transition and compelled speech demands — many abused women remember this type of abuse for what it is: a tool of coercive control that will soon wear out its welcome as more people come to that realization. And, as has been admitted by movement leaders, the evidence does not support the claim that children will kill themselves if they are not permitted to “medically transition."

Cosmetic sterilization of healthy children:

In the US, healthy 13-year-old girls are getting mastectomies, 14-year-old girls are deliberately thrown into menopause by their doctors, and 16-year-old boys are chemically or surgically castrated. Many of these children will also face a lifetime of sexual immaturity, without the likelihood of ever experiencing mature desire or its satisfaction. For girls, in particular, this is being done without significant attention to the potential risks to cardiovascular health and life expectancy already known to be posed by ovarian failure before the age of 40. Survey data and past studies on gender dysphoria indicate that most of these children would otherwise have grown up to be same-sex attracted, and many more than expected are on the autism spectrum. Everywhere that early puberty blockers are being followed immediately by cross-sex hormones, children are being chemically sterilized, when the majority of them would have become comfortable with their bodies through the course of a natural puberty, and because of the mechanisms of puberty. Targeting LGB and autistic children for sterilization, and encouraging it as a way for these often marginalized or abused children to feel “normal,” is a eugenic crime against humanity. The world deserves better from all of you.

Anti-lesbian harassment:

Telling young lesbians that a rejection of sex with male people is “transphobic” is an appalling example of homophobia, which has become endemic to the so-called LGBT community. Young women and girls first coming to understand their exclusive same-sex attraction go to the “queer” community for acceptance, and too often get told that they’re “vagina fetishists,” “violently exclusionary,” or that they are probably straight men “trapped in the wrong body.” Gay men are also increasingly subject to this kind of homophobic abuse. This is grooming and conversion therapy. Leaders must speak out against this now-common practice or they shouldn’t pretend to care about lesbians.

Lesbian & gay erasure: Calling heterosexual men who dress “as women” lesbians, or calling heterosexual women who’ve undergone body modification gay men, is an erasure of the unique experience of being exclusively same-sex attracted. Stop calling straight people lesbians, or gay. Particularly, stop encouraging heterosexual men to represent themselves as lesbians, or be promoted by your organizations and grantees as if they were lesbians and entitled to speak for women on that basis; this is homophobic and insulting to all women.

Transing the dead via historical revision:

Stop erasing historical gender non-conforming LGB people, some of whom assumed names and identities that allowed them freedom of action in societies with strict gender roles for the sexes. Saying this means that they were really transgender and the opposite sex eliminates numerous role models for same-sex attracted young people and adults, and writes out the historical contributions of LGB people. Stop erasing the Nazi regime’s homicidal rampages against gay men — particularly their attack on the gay, Jewish scientist Magnus Hirschfield — with claims that their main targets were the group of men known at the time as transvestites, when drag was not forbidden even to Nazi officers. Stop stealing the history of gay men, like Marsha P. Johnson, who described themselves in their own words as gay men who were drag performers, or hiding the bravery of butch lesbians like Stormé DeLarverie.

For women, this revisionism means telling girls and women that the very few female historical figures who were allowed to take leading roles in their eras or whose stories have been passed down were really men. From taking Stonewall and gay liberation away from the lesbians and gay men who liberated themselves, to taking heroes like Joan of Arc and Pauli Murray away from women, stop this style rewriting of history to claim that “trans” people did everything of note otherwise credited to women and same-sex attracted persons.

Seeking and securing extraordinary privileges for terrible men, while endangering incarcerated women:

You have rigged a world in which every incarcerated woman also has to worry about having to share a cell with violent men like Michelle Kosilek, Synthia China Blast, Dana Rivers, Christopher Hambrook, Karen White, Christyl Knight, Sean Pudwell, or Ian Huntley. People like Chad Sevearance Turner have been welcomed into the leadership of organizations that push to destroy women’s rights and bodily privacy. The utter disregard of the gender identity movement for women’s safety from male violence could hardly be more evident than in the extreme efforts you have made to ensure that no one was allowed to publicly discuss how your proposed policies affect the rights, safety, and feelings of incarcerated women, a demographic characterized by high rates of poverty and previous abuse. The housing of male wife-murderers, rapists, and child molesters and child killers in women’s prisons is an inevitable result of ending the legal distinction between male and female persons. The men in women’s prisons have access to items that “affirm” their claimed identity, yet incarcerated women do not. The use of extremely lenient policies on hiding past identities based on gender identity claims has already allowed predators like Allison Woolbert and Johanna Wolf to reinvent themselves as human rights campaigners. The public is naturally disturbed by such revelations, and they reflect badly not only on your leadership and judgment, but on the vulnerable people you claim to represent. It’s additionally odious that you support these violent men while claiming to represent bisexual women, the most likely demographic by orientation to have been subject to the kinds of family or intimate partner violence these men engage in. And stop asking us to send Ms. Magazine into prisons, when all it will do is further injure the women by demonstrating your support for men identifying their way into women’s prisons.

Trauma and emergency shelter:

Women’s rights leaders once fought so hard for these services for women. Gender identity activists have long known that women in domestic violence and rape crisis shelters are traumatized by men, and that many women in homeless shelters are there because they are fleeing domestic violence. Nonetheless, leadership has encouraged policy makers to tell traumatized women to get over their fears on demand and that their fear is hateful, so that men who want to room with them don’t have to suffer being “misgendered.” Gender identity activists have long known that women, no matter how they identify, are not safe from sexual assault in men’s shelters or accommodations, but do not present this as a real safety concern to the growing ranks of young women looking for an out from a lifetime of being treated like women. While we sympathize with these young women, on the basis of knowing that being an adult woman is no picnic, we would ask them to take a good look at the gender identity movement that has failed to warn them about the risks of their getting “clocked” in male spaces, failed to warn them about predatory men like Cherno Biko, and failed to warn them about phalloplasty providers with multiple, serious malpractice suits out against them for grievously injuring women’s bodies. The women, the “trans men,” in your movement do most of the intellectual and organizational heavy lifting behind the scenes, and occasionally make the news for having a baby. The men, the “trans women,” get all the media attention, awards, and high profile jobs, and generally get to speak for everyone. This classically sexist pattern of publicity and work promoted by movement leadership springs from the same mindset that has decided that the civil rights cause of our day is to “desegregate” emergency shelters for deeply traumatized women. We ask all movement leadership and supporters to act first from compassion for women, and to stop this assault on the rights and privacy of our sisters in need of emergency shelter.

Ending other single-sex accommodations for women and girls:

Recent reports of sexual harassment and assault rates in unisex changing rooms in the UK, bathroom spycam porn in South Korea, sexual assaults in communal toilet blocks in refugee camps, and girls’ school completion rates in primary schools across the developing world all point to one, inescapable conclusion: women and girls are safer and better able to participate in public life when we have access to single-sex public accommodations for toileting and changing. Women and girls dealing with menstruation, breastfeeding, or miscarriages, don’t ‘just need to pee,’ either. We need privacy from men and boys who routinely shame us over these common bodily functions. We need privacy to wash our hands or clothes.

The advice given by development agencies to poorer nations looking to increase girls’ literacy rates and school completion, or reduce sexual assault rates in areas lacking toilet facilities, is to provide safe sex-segregated toilet facilities. But this advice is turned on its head by gender activists who seem to think that men in majority-white countries like the US, UK, and Canada, do not pose any kind of harassment risk to women, and so don’t need to be kept away from areas where we might be undressing. This seems racist, and is demonstrably false. Women had to fight long and hard to win any provision for public accommodations, and the reasons we needed them in the first place have not changed in the slightest.

Your leadership seeks to end these necessary protections and accommodations on behalf of anyone who claims a right of entry — not people with the specific medical condition of gender dysphoria, not people who are classically transsexual — and has rejected all suggestions of creating neutral third spaces, and has shut down every possible discussion about the obvious problems that giving these expanded privileges to all men pose for the safety of women and girls. We object.

Sexist demonization and deplatforming of women for ordinary political activity:

The feminist and gender identity-critical women whom you have no-platformed from the left are at best demonized as hypocrites for not demanding allies who share our values on every feminist issue, and at worst slandered as Nazis, fascists, or white supremacists. Gender Identity Ideology leadership has organized boycotts of entire US states for opposing them on ending single-sex accommodations for women, while never having coordinated half so much fire and fury over the abortion policies you say should be deal-breakers for us, nor for our access to birth control medication, nor for the lax investigation or prosecution of male violence against women, nor for the excessive prosecution of women’s acts of self-defense, nor for incarcerated women being shackled in childbirth, nor for the involuntary sterilization of racially marginalized women, nor for pay disparities by sex, nor for the closure of women’s reproductive health clinics. You have never supported women and girls facing these problems now that Gender Identity is in vogue. Feminism is not your girlfriend, or the property of any man. Do not treat any women as if you are entitled to our support. To our sisters who bravely continue putting up with the left’s petulant man-baby contingent on behalf of all the other good you are trying to do, please insist that your interests get as much cooperation as the demands of men in drag to be allowed to strip in front of you or win women’s cycling matches.

Supporting the sex trade:

While small numbers of relatively privileged individuals may claim to enjoy selling sex to people they would not otherwise speak to, the vast majority of people in the trade, mostly women and girls, feel trapped, or have been directly coerced, and would leave if they could. Sometimes your organizations describe being prostituted as if it were a sexual orientation, or as if this ‘orientation’ spontaneously emerged coincidentally at a time of economic duress. Some leaders have fought laws that penalize the pimps and sex buyers who exploit and rape trafficked persons; some have fought laws that penalize website hosts that knowingly aid the sexual trafficking of minors. Movement leaders have presented this as part of the culture of the LGBT community, as if being desperate, excluded from the regular economy, or sexually exploited, were somehow innate to any of us. This cynical abdication of the urgency of fighting against sexual exploitation, and the marginalization that often leads to it, is defamatory of, if not dangerous to, the people you claim to be fighting for. Especially stop using the rhetorical shield of the underaged homeless to justify the sex trade; such children absolutely do not need violent men to penetrate them for cash, or to be encouraged in a pattern of hypersexuality in response to trauma, they need the adults around them to act decently.

Calling women and girls degrading, dehumanizing names:

Stop supporting organizations and people who call women menstruators, bleeders, breeders, cervix havers, egg producers, uterus bearers, pregnant people, people with vaginas, non-prostate owners, non-men, vulva owners, front-hole havers, chestfeeders, or any other term that submerges our humanity into an anatomy lesson, for the sadistic purpose of telling us that our anatomy doesn’t matter. And do not use that language yourself. We are not “cis,” or “cisgender,” suggesting that we picked, or were allowed to pick, being female or being expected to conform to feminine sex stereotypes. We are women and girls, which are the proper terms for human females.

Appropriating language used by people with disorders of sexual development:

Stop stealing from discourse about people with Differences of Sexual Development (DSDs) to call all women and girls AFAB (assigned female at birth) unless you’re using a person with a DSD term for herself, or vice versa with using AMAB. You can’t identify into or out of having a DSD, whereas only 0.02% of the population has a condition that makes it medically difficult to determine their sex, and it’s insulting to suggest otherwise. There is also no such thing as having a DSD of the mind. Mental traits or predispositions are not passed to children solely and automatically from mother to daughter, or from father to son, and sex is nowhere determined on the basis of such elusive mental traits.

Prioritizing untreated psychological distress over physical health:

In the UK, trans-identified males now get called in for smear tests of cervixes they don’t have, while trans-identified females don’t get reminded about these tests in spite of the heightened risk they face for reproductive health anomalies due to testosterone treatment. Trans-identified individuals are encouraged to feel discriminated against by health providers who correctly identify their sex, and to regard any treatment for co-morbid mental health issues as conversion therapy, or to believe that transition will solve even problems caused by developmental disorders, whereas there are numerous health needs that differ by sex. Because researchers have barely begun consistently including women in drug trials, the most common cause of drug recalls is previously unidentified side effects in women, and many conditions that only or primarily affect women have barely been studied. It can be dangerous for men to get blood transfusions from women who have ever been pregnant. Men and women react differently, overall, to medications ranging from pain relievers to anesthesia. Men and women have different risk profiles for autoimmune disorders. Men and women often have different heart attack symptoms. Encouraging patients and providers to act as if sex should be irrelevant to medical care puts people’s lives at risk, and discourages honest, medically accurate conversations about the health of the reproductive system, in particular. Without regard for the health of any person who may be rendered unconscious — far from anyone who knows them, or perhaps severely injured — you support those who encourage people to change all their legal and medical sex markers, even to lobby to insist on this for soldiers in war zones, for the elderly, or for the chronically ill, whereas it may be a matter of life or death someday that emergency medical staff be able to correctly know, with ease, the sex of a stranger in their care.

Sex can drastically affect treatment efficacy and safety. Only recently have women begun to be included in medical and pharmaceutical research studies. By confusing “gender identity” with sex and prioritizing gender identity over sex on medical intake forms you sow confusion and put lives at risk.

Completely ignoring women’s history:

You know, or at least you did once, that women’s history is filled with male violence as a means to suppress women’s intellect, physical abilities, autonomy, speech, and independence. Now, however, you expect us to forget that and trust men who tell us that they too, are women.

Do you any longer claim to fight sexism? You work to forbid the law to see sex. This will not work to end discrimination against women.

While claiming to support women in sports, you undermine their ability to succeed in sports. While appearing concerned about vulnerable women, such as those who have been prostituted, you support policies that endanger them. While claiming to oppose violence against women, you permit the male sex class to penetrate the female sex class. While claiming to fight homophobia, you promote the neutering of many youth who are likely to grow up to be happily same-sex attracted, and abet the abuse of lesbians and gay men over exclusive same-sex attraction. This will not end discrimination against LGB people. While claiming to fight transphobia, you demand that trans identities be turned into secrets, and allowed to be used as an escape hatch from ordinary background disclosures. This will not end the irrational fear of people who aren’t happy performing the stereotyped roles and social presentations associated with their sex.

Stop supporting the anti-woman changes to the guidance and regulations regarding Title 7 and Title 9:

You have not used your name or institutional support to support women athletes. You stand silent while girl after girl, and woman after woman, loses rankings, titles, and prize money while boys and men, with many physical advantages over girls and women, make a joke of Women’s and Girl’s sports. You are telling girls they do not matter. You are telling women they do not matter.

Stop prioritizing intellectual constructs over material facts.

Girls and women are female mammals and we are human. When you prioritize “feeling” like a girl or woman (which can only mean identifying with stereotypes we have fought for so long) you minimize girls' and women’s direct, physical experiences, and you silence us on these issues. Girls and women are vital contributors to the future.

Stop your silence on these issues.

You must return to your original purpose and speak up and represent girls and women. Your silence on these issues of concern to women coupled with your outright support for admitting boys and men in women’s spaces, speaks volumes.

Do better, please. If not, please stop claiming to work for women and girls.

In frustration,

Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF)

Beth Lowe
President

Margot Heffernan
Vice President

NK Stade
Treasurer

Elspeth Cypher
Secretary