House Votes on (In)Equality Act and Rejects Efforts to Save Women’s Sports
Last week, the House passed H.R. 5, the deceptively-named “Equality Act” by a vote of 236-173. By redefining the term sex to include “sexual orientation and gender identity” in civil rights law, this bill elevates “gender identity” over the protected class of sex as male and female, giving any person the right to claim “gender […]
Penny Nance Discusses the “Equality Act” on Tucker Carlson Tonight
Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) CEO & President Penny Nance joins Tucker Carlson on his Fox News Show, alongside feminist Natasha Chart of the Women’s Liberation Front to express their historic joint opposition to the so called Equality Act, which will have numerous detrimental effects for women.
House Vote Betrays Women
Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5, the So-Called “Equality Act.” Penny Nance, President and CEO of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, released the following statement: “Today the U.S. House of Representatives tragically failed to protect women and girls. Speaker Pelosi’s deceptively-named “Equality Act” gives any man civil rights protections to claim he is a woman, […]
Why the Equality Act Would Be ‘A Travesty for American Women’
Concerned Women for America LAC’s (CWALAC) Doreen Denny talks to CBN about the many dangers of the so-called Equality Act. For more information and to take action against this legislation, visit CWALAC’s Erasing Woman Page.
The Deceptively Named “Equality Act” is a Threat to Women
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) joined with Reps. Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Jody Hice (R-Georgia), Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Carol Miller (R-West Virginia) to speak out about the Equality Act’s harmful effects on women and girls. Alongside the lawmakers, representatives from CWALAC, Women’s Liberation Front, Alliance Defending Freedom, […]
Penny Nance – Inequality Act Press Conference
Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee’s (CWALAC) CEO & President Penny Nance joined with Reps. Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Jody Hice (R-Georgia), Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) and Carol Miller (R-West Virginia), alongside other organizations from the left and the right to speak out about the Equality Act’s harmful effects on women and girls. […]
Penny Nance on the Equality Act on Fox News
Concerned Women for America LAC CEO & President Penny Nance was featured on Fox News opposing the so-called Equality Act. National grassroots women’s organizations with contrasting views on many issues are joining hands to raise mutual concerns over this dangerous bill. Making “gender identity” a protected characteristic under federal law would erase the protected category […]
CWA’s Dr. Shea Garrison featured on ‘The Buck Sexton Show’
Concerned Women for America’s Vice President for International Affairs, Shea Garrison, discusses the Equality Act and the impact it would have on women and girls in this country. https://concernedwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SheaG-EA-BuckSextonRadio.mp3 Dr. Garrison was a guest on The Buck Sexton Show.
Women Across America Unite to Oppose Pelosi’s Threatening Equality Act
WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America LAC, Women’s Liberation Front, Independent Women’s Voice, Save Women’s Sports, Hands Across the Aisle Coalition for Women, and many more united in sending a clear message to Speaker Nancy Pelosi in opposition of the so-called “Equality Act,” which threatens protections and opportunities for women across America. May 14, […]
CWA’s Doreen Denny on the Ingraham Angle
Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) Senior Director of Government Relations Doreen Denny discusses the Equality Act’s unverifiable and unscientific attempt to redefine the word “sex,” effectively “erasing women.”
Real Clear Politics: Feminists, Conservatives Join Forces to Oppose ‘Equality Act’
Penny Nance, CWA’s CEO and President, co-authored a recent opinion piece with Natasha Chart, Board Chair of the Women’s Liberation Front, a group of self-described ‘radical feminists’. They write about their historic unity against the “Equality Act”: “In an era of increasing political divisiveness, what threat could possibly unite radical feminists and Christian women conservatives? Clearly this is a historic and momentous occasion when women on the […]
Listen to Dr. Shea Garrison, Vice President for International Affairs discuss The “Equality Act”
https://concernedwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/sgarrison-equalityactinterview.mp3 Dr. Shea Garrison, Vice President for International Affairs was featured on Truth for our Time Radio Show with Tamara Scott discussing the “Equality Act.” “Congress should only pass laws that protect and support women and girls but this law threatens the privacy and the safety and the gains we have made. The “Equality […]
The “Equality Act’s” Transactivist Agenda is a Direct Assault on Women
The American People Deserve Better On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee rejected conservative attempts to address unfairness and extremism in the “Equality Act”. Liberals proved they no longer stand for women. Women have fought long and hard to gain status. Now, males self-identifying as women are celebrated in sports competitions; they steal women-owned business grants, […]
Christian Conservative Women and Radical Feminists Agree: Women and Girls would be harmed by the Equality Act
Washington, D.C. — Today, the House Judiciary Committee will markup the Equality Act (HR 5), which would amend the Civil Rights Act redefining the meaning of “sex” as male and female to include the categories of sexual orientation and gender identity. Concerned Women for America’s Senior Director of Government Relations, Doreen Denny, issued the following statement: […]
US Equality Act: Gender Identity Impact Summary
Equality Act HR5 2019-Summary
CWA Equality Act Letter
CWA Equality Act Letter to Congress – April 30, 2019
Is It Fair Play? How Female Athletes Are Losing in the Age of Gender Identity
I’m the mother of two athletes, a son who currently plays college baseball and a daughter who was captain of her volleyball team and on elite club teams. Today, my daughter’s leadership, work ethic, and resiliency from sports is translating in her college endeavors, including Army ROTC. Doors of opportunity open for female athletes through […]
Congressional Hearings on the So-Called “Equality Act” Expose True Threats to Women and Girls
Congress is debating the “Equality Act,” a top-ten priority of Speaker Pelosi (D-California) and House Democrats. It would enshrine “gender identity” as a protected trait in federal civil rights law. This denies the biological, scientific fact that being male or female is inscribed in our DNA and determines our sex. Self-declared “gender identity” would be […]
Shame on Google for dissolving its AI council over African-American leader Kay Coles James
Women across the political perspective applauded recently when Kay Coles James, the first woman and the first African-American to lead the conservative and respected Heritage Foundation, was chosen to join Google’s new external advisory council to in part discuss the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our joy lasted barely a week when, in reaction to internal pressure from […]
Saving Money Shouldn’t Mean Hurting Grandma
Concerned Women for America (CWA) has always fought to protect life from its beginning at conception until natural death. A recent hospital stay and subsequent medical care for my 80-year-old mother has served as a wakeup call to the particular vulnerability of the elderly. With this top of mind while caring for her in Tennessee, […]