The 'Equality Act' Threatens Women's Equality | Opinion
four state championship events. But she walked away from those races without any gold medals to show for her hard-fought effort because the championship titles were taken by males competing in the female category. "It was really heartbreaking to lose those awards," Chelsea said, "and to know that, possibly, girls all across the country will lose out on awards like that."It shouldn't surprise us that some liberal feminists, such as tennis star and 18-time Women's Grand Slam winner Martina Navratilova, and feminist organizations like Women's Liberation Front (WoLF), oppose such anti-woman policies.
Broad support for female athletes is further reflected in polling from WoLF, which shows that fewer than 20 percent of Americans agree that males should be permitted to compete in the female category.However, the Equality Act doesn't only hurt female athletes.
It also endangers women in overnight shelters by forcing the shelters to admit males who identify as female. Such an incident occurred in Alaska, where the city of Anchorage tried to use a similar city ordinance to force Downtown Hope Center's women's overnight shelter to allow men who identify as women to sleep mere feet from vulnerable women, many of whom had recently survived trafficking, domestic violence, or other abuse by men.One homeless woman at the shelter testified in court that she would rather sleep in the Alaskan wilderness than sleep near a man. "If the Hope Center were forced to let any biological man into the women's shelter, I would leave even if it meant sleeping in the woods," she said. "I would be afraid that I was going to be raped again.
