In order to anticipate how the proposed Equality Act (H.R. 5) would affect the nation, one need only observe how similar laws have affected citizens in individual states. In states that have included sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in anti-discrimination law, fundamental freedoms of women and girls, medical professionals, parents, business owners, and charities have all been violated.
School should have been the safest place for Pascha Thomas's 5-year-old daughter. That all changed when she was sexually assaulted. The worst part? School policy protected the assailant instead of the victim. Now politicians are hoping to replicate this policy nationwide.
How ironic that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced the Equality Act during Women’s History Month. The bill’s proponents insist it’s meant simply to protect the rights of the LGBT community. But by embracing the ideology of “gender identity,” it treats womanhood as a mutable feeling rather than an immutable fact. This, in the end, will only increase the very real dangers and disadvantages women face.
Parents are calling on the school board and superintendent of a notable school district to face consequences, alleging that school officials covered up the sexual assault of a teenage girl to avoid derailing the implementation of a transgender bathroom policy.
Parents are calling on the school board and superintendent of a notable school district to face consequences, alleging that school officials covered up the sexual assault of a teenage girl to avoid derailing the implementation of a transgender bathroom policy.