WOMEN SAY NO TO MEN IN FEMALE SPACES!

What spaces? It is more than bathrooms, changing rooms, and sports!

Did you know that there are thousands of men in Texas whose Texas ID and/or birth certificates have had the sex-identifier legally falsified to state they are female? What does this mean for women?

This means that there are no true female-only spaces for women. As long as sex can be falsified on state ID, birth certificates, and other identifying records males can access female-only spaces.

Call your Texas Legislators and ask them to support legislation that will end legal falsification of sex on birth certificates and Texas ID. Ask your Texas Representative and Texas Senator to support the following bills that address this issue: SB406, SB84, HB4001, HB2291, HB403, HB2549.

Click here to find out who represents you in the Texas House and the Texas Senate. You can click on the Texas House District Representative and Texas Senator for your Senate District and for their contact information.

Women Owned Business Certification

Women are losing opportunties to expand their business through Women Owned Business (WOB) Certification programs because men are able to use legally falsified documents like State ID or birth certificates to apply for WOB certification. WOB certification is intended to lift up women in male dominated industries. Men who have risen to the top levels of their fields are able to access WOB certification to secure opportunities for government work that was supposed to be set aside for women.

Prisons and County Jails

Men are being placed in female prisons and county jails.  The need to house women apart from men in the first place is to prioritize the safety and dignity of female inmates.  Instead, courts have sided with radical ideologists in favor of allowing some men to be placed in female prisons. Men have had their sex-identifier changed on their State ID or Birth Certificate or who have a court order stating they are transgender are being housed with women.  Women's needs need to remain the priority of female prisons and jails.  All inmates should be safe. Men who are deemed by the state to be at risk should be accomodated safely and humanely in male facilities. 

Women arrested in Texas cities risk being cavity searched by men whose documents have been legally falsified even though they have requested a female provide the search. Female corrections officers have to search males whose sex-identifiers have been legally falsified when the males ask for a female.  Both of these instances result in indignities against women.

Gyms and Changing Areas

Gyms rely on State ID to determine which facilities (male or female) a member should use. When men have ID or other documents that state they are female the integrity of the female-only spaces are at risk and so are women. Regardless of whether any particular man means to harm women or has a history of harming women, women have their own spaces for good reason. The great majority of crimes against women are committed by men. Women and business owners can’t tell the safe men from the unsafe men. Safety risks aside, it violates the dignity and privacy of women to allow men into female spaces. Women and girls have a right to female-only spaces. It isn’t unkind to demand female-only spaces be enforced.

Women’s Organizations

Women and girls need their organizations to support each other. Being female is unique and the challenges women and girls face are uniquely female. It is essential that organizations that provide support, fellowship, mentorship, and community building among women and girls remain for women and girls only. Falsification of sex on state issued documents allows males to penetrate women’s organizations. This is a violation of the right of women to associate with females only as they see appropriate.

Accuracy in Media & Government Data

  Legal falsification of sex on government issued ID and vital records creats a problem for accuracy in government data keeping and accuracy in media reporting.  For instance, crimes committed by men are being recorded and reported as committed by women. Many of these crimes are against women. We cannot begin to address violence against women if we cannot accurately state who is committing the offenses.  The government has an interest in disbursement and collection of accurate data as it relates to the sex of its citizens.

“Real women don’t need prostate checks.”

Tracy Shannon