CHEYENNE, WY — Independent Women yesterday sent a letter to the President of the Wyoming Senate, Ogden Driskill, urging him to bring House Bill 0032 up for consideration in the Wyoming Senate. If passed by the legislature and signed into law, HB0032, inspired by Independent Women’s Stand with Women legislation, would preserve the legal existence of women as distinct from men and help safeguard the existence of single-sex spaces. The letter was signed by a coalition of female athletes, sorority members, and ambassadors for Independent Women who want to maintain single-sex spaces in order to protect privacy, fairness, safety, and equal opportunity for women.
Members of the Wyoming Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority have already experienced the harms of males demanding access to female spaces as they were denied their right to single-sex sisterhood.
This letter amplifies the voices of over 280,000 women and girls in Wyoming who want this bill to have a debate in the senate. The letter states, in part that:
“If passed into law, this bill would help protect women’s hard earned rights and spaces. By defining common sex-based words—words like ‘woman’ and ‘female’ already used in 252 unique Wyoming statutes—this bill will help safeguard female opportunities and private spaces from attack by those who seek to manipulate the definition of words to achieve policies that lack public support.”
Previously, Independent Women Ambassadors and Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma plaintiffs Hannah Holtmeier, Maddie Ramar, and Allie Coghan joined Wyoming lawmakers for a press conference to champion HB0032 after they were forced to initiate a male into their all-female sorority at the University of Wyoming in 2022. Holtmeier went on to testify in support of the bill.
This bill also follows President Donald Trump’s Day-One Executive Order that restores biological reality and protects sex-based rights. Kansas, Tennessee, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Arkansas have already adopted legislation inspired by Independent Women’s sex-definition model, impacting the lives of over 14 million women and girls.
Until sex-based words are defined in statute, Wyoming women will continue to lose out to men. This legislation will ensure that women are not erased, as long as this bill receives the public hearing it deserves.
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