PHOENIX, AZ — Today, Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) celebrates Kari Lake, U.S. Senate candidate for Arizona, for her Stand With Women Commitment and support of legislation that preserves women’s rights to equal opportunity, safety, and privacy — including single-sex spaces.
By signing IWV’s Stand With Women Commitment, Kari Lake promises “to uphold legislation that preserves female opportunities and private spaces.”
The Stand With Women Commitment is part of IWV’s Hope Agenda to offer solutions on some of the most important issues that women, as well as Independents, Hispanics, and younger Americans, care deeply about and want addressed.
The Biden-Harris administration’s new administrative rule, which took effect August 1, unilaterally redefines Title IX’s sex-based protections to apply to “gender identity.” The rules pressure schools to let males who identify as women take women’s scholarships and roster spots. Lake’s commitment to preserve uniform, biological definitions for sex-based words in federal law will preserve equal opportunity for women and girls in all aspects of education, including in sports.
“With her Stand With Women Commitment signing, Kari Lake is sending a clear message that she will prioritize women’s rights in Arizona, from preserving women’s sports to protecting single-sex spaces like locker rooms, dormitories, and domestic violence shelters. We need more female candidates like Lake who are unapologetic in their willingness to stand up for womanhood,” said Riley Gaines, IWV Ambassador and host of Outkick’s ‘Gaines For Girls’.
Words like ‘female’, ‘male’, ‘man’, and ‘woman’ are used thousands of times in state and federal law. Unelected judges and bureaucrats are unilaterally redefining sex-based terms and expanding the scope of sex discrimination laws already on the books. When these sex-based words don’t have uniform, biological definitions, women pay the price.
The Stand with Women Commitment lets constituents know who is pro-woman, pro-science, and will fight for policies that prevent sex discrimination and preserve women’s rights, safety, and opportunities.
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