CWA Lauds IOC Decision to Ban Trans-Identifying Men From Women’s Sports

For Immediate Release: March 26, 2026 | Contact: [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America (CWA) celebrates the news that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has banned trans-identifying men from competing against biological women. “Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team […]
House Democrats Don’t Want Women’s History Museum to Feature Biological Women Only

For Immediate Release: March 19, 2026 | Contact: [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America (CWA) said that House Democrats should reconsider their opposition to building a Women’s History Museum that ensures only biological women are exhibited. Democrats on the House Administration Committee voted against this proposal yesterday. “Americans should not fund a museum that compromises on the definition of […]
Urgent Action Alert in California: Defend Girls’ Sports – Show Up, Pray, Call!

California is at a critical crossroads. For the first time in over a decade, lawmakers are set to publicly consider legislation that could restore fairness, safety, and privacy to girls’ sports in K–12 schools. Two crucial bills—AB 89 and AB 844—will be heard next week, and your voice has never been more needed. Here’s how […]
Stand for Girls Privacy and Parental Rights – April 10 – Attend Deerfield Board of Education Meeting!

If you are like me, you are deeply concerned by the recent events in Deerfield District 109. On March 13, a courageous mother, Nicole Georgas, addressed the school board, sharing her daughter’s experience of being urged to change clothes in the presence of a biological male student identifying as female. Watch the mother’s testimony here (starting at […]
Denny: The Clock is Ticking for the NCAA to Change its Trans Policy

As the National Collegiate Athletic Association convened in Nashville for its annual convention, CWA’s Doreen Denny was featured in Fox News observing that the meeting of NCAA colleges comes at a pivotal moment with a new Administration and a new court decision confronting the NCAA with demands for change to protect women’s sports. “It seems […]
Encourage Congress to Support H.R. 28 and S.9

In the fresh start of the 119th Congress, we’re back in the halls of D.C. urging Congress to restore Title IX protections by passing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. We need your help to encourage Congress to support H.R. 28 and S.9! H.R. 28 / S. 9 makes clear the Education […]
Protecting America’s Daughters: Title IX and the Fight for Fairness

CWA’s Senior Advisor, Doreen Denny, and Legislative Strategist, Macy Petty, spoke at the Pray Vote Stand Summit 2024 hosted by Family Research Council. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40Xw2ixAqcA
University of Wyoming YWA Chapter President Sends Letter to University Administration

The National Director for Young Women for America (YWA), Faith Ozenbaugh, and the University of Wyoming YWA Chapter Leader, Briana Harper, sent a letter to the university president and the athletic director on behalf of female student athletes. Download the letter here.
Wyoming Judge’s “Cop-out” Ruling Sets Women’s Rights Back Again

For Immediate Release August 31, 2023 Contact: CWA Communications [email protected] MEDIA ADVISORY: Wyoming Judge’s “Cop-out” Ruling Sets Women’s Rights Back Again Six Sorority Sisters Deserve a Safe Space Washington, D.C. – Today, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, strongly condemned the ruling of Federal District Court Judge Alan Johnson […]
Support the Women’s Bill of Rights

We live in a world where the God-designed distinctions between the sexes are undermined and under attack. To fight back, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) is supporting the Women’s Bill of Rights. The Women’s Bill of Rights resolution* is a definitive statement on the definition of sex and the legal protections women […]
Nance: Biden has just erased you

Penny Nance, Concerned Women for America’s CEO and President, responds to President Biden’s new Title IX regulations. “On this 50thanniversary of Title IX, when we are proud to celebrate the accomplishment of millions of women across the country, the Biden Administration outrageously offers new regulations that would redefine sex, equating gender identity with biological reality. […]
Olympics 2021: An Unfair Playing Field
For the first time ever, a transgender athlete has qualified for an Olympic team. Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand was selected for their national team on Monday and will compete in the “super-heavyweight” category in the weightlifting competition. Vice President of Government Relations for Concerned Women for America, Doreen Denny, had this to say: “This […]
I will not allow who I am to be erased. Will you?

By Keri Ann Thompson, CWA Staff I have several roles in my life that I cherish and would not want to change for any amount of money or treasure. They are: wife, mother, daughter, sister, godmother, and aunt. There is a feeling of belonging and identity that happens with those words. I am a wife. […]
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 – 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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]