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Congressional Republicans have introduced a resolution creating a Womens Bill of Rights that mentions just one right, but only for cis women: the right to not see trans women in a public restroom. The rest of the Womens Bill of Rights is about definitions and the governments powers.

The Democrats are erasing women and the spaces that are uniquely ours, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ), who is trying to get the resolution passed in the House. Despite leading Republicans on the Womens Bill of Rights, she has been endorsed by Arizona Right to Life and the Susan B. Anthony List because of her staunch opposition to reproductive freedom.

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The House version of the resolution has 11 co-sponsors and the Senate version was introduced by Sens. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MO), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), who just got booed last week for mocking transgender people at a commencement speech and then lied about what she said, getting booed even more.

The Republicans say that their resolution, called the Womens Bill of Rights, even though it does not include important rights women have fought for decades to obtain, like reproductive freedom, equal education, anti-discrimination protections, or the vote.

The resolution lists six points that it affirms. The first three are definitions. The fourth is about the right of cis women to not see trans women in certain spaces. And the last two are about the governments actions, not womens rights.

The resolutions first point says, for purposes of Federal law, a persons sex means his or her biological sex (either male or female) at birth, without saying exactly how that should be determined. While several physical aspects of peoples bodies are associated with gender, like chromosomes, genitalia, and hormone levels, they dont necessarily align and have often been used to tell some women especially women of color that theyre not really women.

The second and third points add more gendered terms and say that they too are defined according to biological sex. They do not mention any rights.

The resolution moves on to more substantive matters, saying that there are important reasons to distinguish between the sexes with respect to athletics, prisons, domestic violence shelters, restrooms, and other areas in its fourth point. Forcing trans women to be sheltered with cis men in many of those situations, though, has led to violence against trans women.

The fifth point gives the government the right to distinguish between the sexes, which isnt at all a right for women.

The sixth point is about data collection, saying that federal, state, and local governments are required to base such data on the biological sex of individuals at birth, which, depending on what the data is about, could lead to inaccuracies in order to advance the Republicans political agenda.

All told, the Womens Bill of Rights only protects one right for women: the right to be in a womens prison (or shelter, etc.) with trans men but without trans women.

Several weeks ago, a leaked Supreme court decision several weeks ago in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization which could overturn Roe v. Wade and end the federal right to an abortion in the U.S. made abortion one of the most talked about issues in the U.S., so its hard to see how Republicans could have simply forgotten to include it in their Womens Bill of Rights.

The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted by the U.N. that is often described as an international womens bill of rights. It includes 30 articles describing rights that member states agree to protect for women, ranging from taking measures to end human trafficking to citizenship rights to ensuring that women can freely choose a spouse.

While the U.S. signed the CEDAW, its the only country that signed it without implementing it. The Republicans backing the Womens Bill of Rights could have looked to that landmark treaty for guidance but apparently, their motives were not to actually improve womens lives.

The radical Left has launched an attack on biology because they want to put themselves above God and they want to brainwash our daughters with their woke-ism, said Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), another Congressmember leading the resolution.

The Republican resolution is another in a long line of cynical attempts by anti-LGBTQ extremists around the country to erase transgender and nonbinary people from our communities, said Olivia Hunt of the National Center for Transgender Equality. More than a century of science has shown us that biology is far more complicated than what the authors of this resolution describe, and that trans and nonbinary peoples genders are just as real and just as valid as everyone elses. Science simply doesnt support this attempt at making our existence a culture war.

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