On Thursday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a “Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.”

It occurred to me that there has never been a robust debate in the United States about the wisdom of according legal equality between biological males who identify as women and biological women.

Instead, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 declared in a 6-3 opinion that transgender workers are protected from discrimination in employment on the basis of “sex” under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Then, Pres. Joe Biden in 2021, on his first day in office, signed a broad executive order declaring trans women to be the legal equivalent of women in other spheres. His order filtered through federal agencies and took effect through varied regulations.

Today, biological men who merely say they identify as women are routinely admitted to women’s heretofore private spaces (ex. women’s prisons, restrooms, shelters) and entitled by “right” to participate on collegiate women’s sports teams. This has adverse implications for women but when women try to address these implicatons they are ignored, silenced or dismissed as TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) and transphobic.

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Respected, award-winning journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger were invited to testify at Thursday’s hearing about evidence gleaned from Twitter files that shows federal agencies exercised undue influence to suppress political arguments on social media in violation of the First Amendment. There also was discussion about limiting speech on COVID-19.

Needless to say, there was no mention of the systematic stifling of the First Amendment right of biological women to oppose legal equality between transgender women and biological women.

I’d like to encourage the Judiciary Committee to investigate this important woman’s issue.

I’ve been writing about the impact of trangender issues on biological women since at least 2016 when I observed that transgender workers were gaining more protection in the workplace than is accorded to older workers.

In 2022, I criticized federal court rulings upholding trans rights that had an adverse impact on women and warned that “women are losing the battle for equal rights.”

Last summer, I criticized the “wimpy women of the Ivy League” for tolerating the participation of a 6’ 4” transgender woman on female swimming teams.

More recently, I wrote about how Biden’s executive order accomplished what a left-wing politician in Scotland failed to accomplish due to overwhelming opposition.

My articles challenging legal equality between biological men who identify as women and biological women are routinely shadowbanned and suppressed on social media - both before and after Elon Musk purchased Twitter. I would have a much more popular blog if I wrote about recipes and childcare but my expertise is discrimination and, in this case, discrimination against biological women.

I recognize I’ve been fortunate too, perhaps because I am an attorney.

Canadian Feminist Meghan Murphy was kicked off Twitter in 2018 because she had the effrontery to say that men could not be women.

World reknown author J.K. Rowling has suffered a years of intense villification for insisting that women have a right to private spaces where they can be free from male violence.

To Judiciary Committe Members:

• Women’s rights are too important to be erased with the stroke of a pen without debate.

• Women cannot defend their rights if opinions contrary to the status quo are suppressed or erased on social media.

• Women have a right under the law to be free from sex discrimination, which far supercedes a trans athlete’s manufactured right to play on women’s sports teams.

• The Women’s Sports Foundation, Legal Momentum and the American Civil Liberties Union do not speak for women. They will not voluntarily disclose their funding and whether they are funded by trans-rights groups. Their pro-trans positions are demonstrably adverse to biological women, raising serious questions.

In short, I urge the Committee to investigate whether the Biden administration has attempted to silence women’s First Amendment right to speak about legal issues of great importance to women.