Guest post: The source
Originally a comment by Dave Ricks on The one silver lining.
The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) takes credit for being the architect of model legislation used in Executive Order 14166 that Trump signed yesterday about the definition of ‘sex’ in the Federal government:
Independent Women is the architect of model legislation to define sex-based terms in law and code in order to stop bureaucrats and elitists on the federal and state level from redefining language to fit a false narrative and erase women. Gender ideologues have sacrificed women’s rights to single-sex spaces, opportunities, and privacy on the altar of a radical view of “inclusion.” Trump’s sex-definition executive order is a nationwide victory for women and girls.
Importantly, this executive order uses Independent Women’s definitions of ‘sex,’ ‘female,’ and ‘male’ as based on reproductive potential, rather than chromosomes, to ensure clarity and protection for all individuals.
Senior legal advisor for Independent Women, Beth Parlato said, “Over the past four years, gender ideology has infiltrated our schools, culture, policies and laws and has distorted our language with terms such as ‘pregnant person’ and forced use of opposite-sex pronouns. The lie that sex is fluid erases and endangers women. President Trump’s action today is a resounding victory for truth; that sex is binary, and women are biologically distinct from men. His repudiation of gender identity indoctrination brings back sanity and common sense.”
Carrie Lukas, president of Independent Women’s Forum, concluded: “I’m incredibly proud of the groundwork that the team at Independent Women laid for today’s victory. As we have long argued, the United States is a nation of laws, not men. To have a system of laws, words must have meaning. Today, President Trump stopped the Left’s attempts to erase the concept of women as a separate sex. On behalf of women and girls everywhere, thank you President Trump.”
Not any more…