House to Vote on The Equality Act: Take Action Now!

Write to your Representatives and ask them to vote NO next week on the Equality Act

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced on Tuesday that the House of Representatives is planning to vote next week on the Equality Act.

While the Equality Act is being sold on promising good things for women, and on ending unfair treatment of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people—which almost everyone agrees are worthy and important goals—it’s poisoned with the destruction of the law’s ability to allow any accommodations for women on the basis of sex. The bill would codify the regulatory changes President Biden laid forth in his Executive Order on gender identity his first day in office.

How women and girls would be harmed by the Equality Act

Under current civil rights law employers may hire and assign work on the basis of sex only when it’s a bona fide occupational qualification. These are some jobs and assignments this change will affect, taking away the right of Americans to insist that only someone of the same sex be able to:

• Perform security pat-downs or strip searches
• Handle intimate care for hospital and long-term care patients
• Perform intimate medical examinations
• Supervise drug tests
• Supervise children on overnight trips

The summary of the bill states, “The bill prohibits an individual from being denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual's gender identity.” This means that American women will no longer be able to expect any single-sex facilities when using or being required to stay in:

• Shared hospital rooms or wards
• Locker rooms and public or group showers
• Multi-stall bathrooms
• Jails, prisons, or juvenile detention facilities
• Homeless shelters, domestic violence, or rape crisis shelters 

This bill will also end sports programs and scholarships set aside for women and girls.

Take Action

Today we are asking you to write to your Representatives in the House and ask them to vote NO on the Equality Act. Although the bill is likely to pass in the House, it is important the representatives on both sides of the aisle hear from constituents expressing their outrage and disappointment over the loss of our single-sex accommodations. We must no longer be a silent majority, but a powerful force that our representatives cannot ignore if they wish to stay in office.

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