These photos are from Oklahoma City Pride 2025. This is how badly Pride has degenerated — it is nohing but fetishes on parade. NSFW.

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Action Alerts

From DIAG:

HR 2616 [Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act] passed the House on May 20, 2026, by a vote of 217-198. This critical bill requires public elementary and middle schools receiving federal funds to obtain parental consent before changing a student’s “gender markers,” pronouns, preferred names on school forms, or sex-based accommodations (e.g., bathrooms, locker rooms). It also prohibits federal funds from being used to teach gender ideology in K-12 schools.

This bill is a good start, but we know it doesn’t go far enough to protect our kids from the trans cult. Still, we need to contact the eight Democratic Representatives who supported the bill and the 11 Senators on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee who will hear the bill this week. DIAG has complete templates and contact info here.

Please act before the Committee hearing on June 3, 2026.

Also from DIAG:

Actions for Parents:

Protect your kids from gender nonsense in school

On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant interim ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta. The Court vacated the Ninth Circuit’s stay and reinstated the district court’s injunction for parent plaintiffs. The ruling holds that parents are likely to succeed on their constitutional claims. California schools generally cannot conceal a child’s social transition, preferred names, or pronouns from objecting parents, and must respect parental authority on these issues. This decision reinforces that parents — not schools or the state — have the fundamental right to direct their child’s upbringing and education.

DIAG has contact info and templates here.

Don’t forget top tell HUD to enforce women-only federally funded housing and social services.

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From National Center on Sexual Exploitation:

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Parents Over Platforms Act

A wolf in sheep’s clothing has snuck into Congress. And it’s ravenous. It seeks to devour all existing child protection laws by disguising itself as one.

This dangerous wolf is called The Parents Over Platforms Act (POPA, S. 4349/HR. 6333).

While POPA purports to be a bill that would advance child online safety, it is the exact opposite. A careful reading of the text shows that this bill was not written for families. It was written for Big Tech.

POPA does nothing but cement the status quo of Big Tech’s impunity. It even threatens to erase what progress has already been made on child online safety.

📝 Read this blog to learn more about POPA and the perils hiding within the text of the bill.

📣 ACTION: Urge Congress to Oppose the Parents Over Platforms Act!

PA Action Alerts

From a PA4SBR subscriber:

email senator Kim Ward... you have to go on her web site and put it in her “contact me” box there doesn’t seem to be a direct link... then someone in her district - please VOTE HER OUT! she is terrible for sexual violence victims! Below is a sample to email...

Dear Senator Ward,

Please pass HB462 and HB464 and SB494. Survivors around the state need you to be our voice and protect our rights and give us our day in court. Please open the look back window so we may pursue our day in court.

Also, as a Pennsylvanian, I am concerned for children, I ask that you raise the age of consent to 18 with SB494 because it is too low at 16, especially now that the age to marry is 18. Please close that gap and protect children from predators!

Respectfully submitted,

Governor Shapiro launches a State of the Woman 2026 Survey. Note the anti-woman language:

Purpose: Your input will inform Pennsylvania’s 2026 State of the Woman Report, which can serve as a guide to inform statewide priorities on women’s health, economic opportunity, and safety. This survey takes approximately 20 minutes. All responses are confidential and anonymous.

Survey respondents should identify as women. While we respect and value the opinions and experiences of those who support women, our goal is to gather feedback from Pennsylvania women specifically. [Emphasis added.]

So anyone can take the survey, making the data meaningless.

Please take the survey here.

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Greetings, PA Friends. I’m surfacing from my hole to announce that WDI would like to put on a casual, gender critical social in the state of Pennsylvania. Some of you might know that they aren’t doing a conference this year, so they are looking to mount some smaller events.

I’m looking at doing it either in Jenkintown, PA (near Philly) or more central Bethlehem, PA. I would be interesting in getting feedback as to which location is better. If we get a good turnout, WDI will invest in more such events.

The idea is that you come, we chat, a few people speak and we make space for those who are curious about all our issues but aren’t ready to go to a big, public event.

This would be a time to bring your friends and show them who we are.

Let me know your thoughts. If there’s good success on the eastern side of the state, we’ll try and put on one on the western side.

Sadly, many women who claim to be “feminists” attack us as well. [Source of picture forgotten.]

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Some interesting items, both good and bad, have found their way into Your Humble Author’s inbox recently. Some of them nauseated me, so of course I must share them with all y’all. The rest are very good, so of course I ask you to check them out yourself.

First, Planned Parenthood [PP] emailed this gem.

After celebrating the recent Commonwealth Court’s abortion decision, PP wrote this:

Gender-[A]ffirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT) is often only discussed in relation to transgender and gender-nonconforming patients, but in truth, the availability of hormone therapies benefits everyone.

In fact, one of the most common uses of gender-affirming hormone therapy is for patients experiencing perimenopause and menopause symptoms!

Most people will go through hormonal balance and production shifts through their lifetimes. Hormone therapy is a safe and easy treatment option, and our clinicians are available to answer any questions you might have about your unique needs. [Emphases in original]

Oy vey! Where do I even START to unpack all this bullshit??

First, “patients” don’t experience menopause. WOMEN, if they’re lucky to get old enough, experience menopause. Read this very carefully, PP: Only. Women. Experience. Menopause. Got it? No, of course you don’t.

Hormone replacement therapy [HRT] is NOT “gender affirming care [GAC.]” As its name indicates, HRT replaces two hormones (estrogen and progestin) that naturally decline during perimenopause. These declines can cause hot flashes and other uncomfortable (to put it mildly) menopausal symptoms. HRT can reduce the frequency and severity of these symptoms as well as help prevent osteoporosis and other serious diseases in menopausal women. Like any other medical treatment, HRT has both risks and benefits. It has nothing to do with “GAC.” Menopausal women don’t want or need “gender affirmation.” We are not rejecting our own bodies. We need symptom relief. That’s all. Stop trying to steal legitimate reproductive medicine for your ideology.

So let us think: what else would PP claim is “GAC?” They’ve previously claimed that breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer is “gender affirming.” No it isn’t! It’s replacing a body part lost to a life-threatening disease with a prosthesis. It’s not about a woman rejecting her sex. I suppose PP will claim that Pap smears, breast exams, etc., are also “GAC,” as are menstrual products, contraceptives… What isn’t “GAC?”

If a man gets a boob job, his medical insurance may pay for it because “GAC.” But if I get a boob job, my insurance won’t pay because that’s “cosmetic.” Well, isn’t the man’s boob job cosmetic too? He attempts to “pass” cosmetically as a woman… so… cosmetic. Medical insurance discriminates against women (quelle surprise) by denying payment for the same procedure performed in a man. The same is true for nose jobs, Botox, you name it. Medical insurance companies even refused to pay for post-mastectomy breast reconstruction, claiming it was “cosmetic.” A former coworker had to fight her insurance company to pay for her breast reduction surgery. Apparently all her severe shoulder and back pain were “cosmetic.” Anything to deny women medical treatment.

So yeah, Your Humble Author get royally pissed when gender nonsense tries to become respectable by sneaking into necessary medical treatment. PP must stop scaring women by saying bans on “GAC” threaten our medical care — they don’t.

Anyway, PP continues:

If you have a uterus and ovaries, menopause happens in the stage of life when reproductive hormone levels begin to decrease. Your ovaries get smaller and gradually stop making estrogen, as well as slow down making progesterone. Without these hormones, you stop getting your period and stop being able to get pregnant.

Your Humble Author shall refrain from commenting on the above, and skip merrily on to her next topic.

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Women’s Media Center (WMC) makes this absurd claim.

WMC posted an article called Women-Only Spaces Are Not the Solution to Gender-Based [sic] Violence. Yes, the WOMEN’S Media Center:

Women-only [Uber and Lyft] drivers are just the latest example of a broader trend: creating gender-segregated [sic] spaces so women are safe. Around the world, we see women-only train compartments and buses, women-only taxi services, women-only gyms and co-working spaces, and even women-only nightlife venues — from a club in Bengaluru to women-only nights in London — designed to offer relief from harassment. These spaces respond to a real need. But they also signal a troubling compromise: Instead of making shared spaces safer, we are redesigning them to exclude risk by excluding men.

Oh my goodness, we can’t EVER exclude men! The horror! Those poor excluded men lose so many opportunities to harass women!

Author ElsaMarie D’Silva even compares women-only services to socio-religious restrictions on women’s rights, such as confinement to the home and bans on education. But these are not the same as women-only facilities. The latter are protection from male violence. They are voluntary, chosen by women. The former are oppression by male violence. They are mandatory, enforced by men and patriarchy. D’Silva misses this critical distinction entirely.

Soraya Chemaly calls this “the fallacy of symmetry.” Her article at the link is long and kinda woke-y, and I disagree with most of her views on gender ideology, but it’s worth reading for her analysis of sex-segregated services and facilities.

Nevertheless, D’Silva has a point. Women shouldn’t need sex-segregated transit, workplaces, and nightclubs. We shouldn’t need to alter our own behavior to be safe. Women shouldn’t need to be hypervigilant about our physical safety. Instead, men need to stop harassing and assaulting us. Men must treat us like actual human beings, not as objects for their abuse. But until they do, women must have women-only facilities.

And yes, all y’all expected this: excluding all men sets a precedent for excluding men who think they’re women, and that’s Simply The. Worst.

What a disgrace that the WOMEN’S Media Center doesn’t understand this.

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Now the good stuff!

An episode of Kara Dansky’s The TERF Report features Marie Hurabiell, a Democratic sex realist who’s running against the infamous misogynist Scott Wiener for Nancy Pelosi’s US House seat from California. Ms Hurabiell will not appear in mainstream media because they’ve cancelled her for knowing that men can’t be women and basing public policy on delusions is bad. If you know anyone in US Rep Pelosi’s California district, please encourage them to support Ms Hurabiell. Here is Ms Dansky’s interview with her.

Next week is National Women's Health Week!

Every May, beginning on Mother's Day, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office on Women's Health (OWH) leads National Women's Health Week (NWHW). This year, NWHW takes place from May 10-16. This observance highlights women's health conditions and priorities and encourages women of all ages to prioritize their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Yes — WOMEN’S health, not gender nonsense. For more information and resources, see the link above.

Women’s Declaration International [WDI] has launched a new database/website called Not Our Crimes. WDI keeps track of the numbers of men in women’s prisons as well as the crimes these men commit. Please visit the site, and if you have any information to include, contact WDI on their webform.

Finally, sex realists in Colorado have successfully placed three separate measures — protecting kids from sex trafficking, protecting kids from sex-rejecting procedures, and protecting women’s sports — on their state’s November 2026 ballot. If you know anyone is Colorado, please ask them to get involved with Protecting Kids Colorado. This group does excellent work!

Today’s lagniappe:

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Dear Readers, we have a national action alert.

The Trump Administration has proposed the repeal of the “Equal Access Rule,” which guarantees equal use of government-funded housing programs--including homeless and domestic violence shelters--regardless of a person’s sexual orientation, “gender identity,” or marital status. Again we have “gender identity” hijacking real civil rights movements.

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development [HUD] proposed the rule change to align with President Trump’s Executive Order on gender ideology. The proposed rule is FR-6518-P-01 Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions. You can read the entire proposal here.

This means that anyone using federally funded homeless or domestic violence shelters must use the services that match their biological sex. Men who think they’re women must use services/shelters for men because they’re men. No female impersonators could be housed in women’s shelters because they’re men. Women’s shelters and services would be safe and protected single-sex only, as they should be.

Already trantifa are howling that men who think they’re women are being banned from homeless shelters — OMG genocide! Of course, this is ridiculous. No one is being banned from homeless shelters. Everyone must use the shelter/service that matches their biological sex. Even the media are presenting this as a “trans rights” issue, not a women’s rights issue. Just search the internet.

HUD is soliciting comments on this proposal on Federal Register. The deadline is June 29, 2026. Please send your comments now before you forget. Be sure to include the phrase “FR-6518-P-01 Equal Access to Housing in HUD Programs Revisions” in your comments. This is the link to Federal Register for comments. Your comments, but not personally identifying information, will be part of the public record. However, you can remain anonymous or use a pseudonym and/or throwaway email address if you want.

Tell HUD that women and girls have a right to single-sex housing and services for their privacy, safety, and dignity.

Women in battered women’s and homeless shelters are especially vulnerable to male violence. Women and girls in shelters are escaping from male violence. How do we know that a man in a dress is NOT a predator? Already in the UK and Canada, female impersonators have assaulted women in battered women’s shelters. Here is a small sample from my saved links.

Woman suing rape charity over transgender row

Women deserve clarity on single-sex spaces

Women's shelters issue warning on violent trans sex offender

Trans woman [sic] crawled into bed with, assaulted female resident at women's shelter

Predator who claimed to be transgender declared dangerous offender

Forced to share a room with transgender woman [sic] in Toronto shelter, sex abuse victim files human rights complaint

Hospital told police patient was not raped because alleged attacker was transgender

Read about WoLF's lawsuit over men in women's prisons. Men in women’s prisons are raping (and sometimes impregnating) women inmates.

Of course, men in women’s shelters/facilities in the US are assaulting women as well. Just search the internet.

If you have used any federally funded housing or rape/DV services, please tell HUD about your experiences with women-only or with female impersonators.

If you can’t even locate women-only housing or services, tell HUD.

HUD needs to hear from all of us.

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Life interferes with many of our plans. Your Humble Author is behind on posts. She apologizes, and as always does her best to keep you Dear Readers informed.

As you may know, Democrats have used legislative maneuvering to reassign the four PA General Assembly bills to protect women’s athletics, HB 158, HB 1849, SB 1293, and SB 9, to other committees to prevent them from floor votes. All of these bills have passed our state Senate in bipartisan floor votes.

PA Democrats are hellbent on killing bills that protect the safety and integrity of women’s athletics. Despite 79% of Americans opposing men in women’s sports, Democrats have chosen this hill on which to die.

State Representative Barbara Gleim, R-199, a cosponsor of the two House bills, wrote this:

Last December, the House Education Committee again dodged a vote on the measures by re-referring both the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (House Bill 158) and the Dads Defending Daughters bill (House Bill 1849) to the House Judiciary Committee. My Women in Sports bill has been passed around for almost 360 days…an entire year.

Earlier this week, without notice and without identifying the names of the bills or allowing debate, majority House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee re-referred the bills to the House Health Committee, where the Senate’s Women in Sports bill (Senate Bill 9) was recently referred out of to the Children and Youth Committee. I encourage you to click here and watch the chaotic House Democrat majority leader of the Judiciary Committee silence the Republican chairman and other members of the committee.

In the most recent full Senate floor vote, four courageous Democrats voted for fairness and common sense. PLEASE thank them! They need to know that Pennsylvanians support them!

Senator Lisa Boscola, D-18

Senator Nick Miller, D-14

Senator Christine Tartaglione, D-2

Senator Marty Flynn, D-22

You can see the entire vote details here. If your senator voted YES, please thank her/him! If NO, then tell them you’re angry.

PA4SBR contributor Dr Beth Ann Rosica wrote this in her article for Broad+Liberty:

Fairness is in the eye of the beholder, or perhaps — in the case of protecting women and girls — the eye of the politician. Both the Pennsylvania Senate and House have introduced “fairness” bills; however, the real question is, “fairness for whom?”

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Four brave Senate Democrats broke with their party to defend girls and women. Now House Democrats face a choice: follow their lead or continue putting progressive ideology ahead of fairness and common sense.

Please read Dr Rosica’s entire article at the link above.

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A final reminder that May 4, 2026, is THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN THE PRIMARY ELECTION.

Pennsylvania’s primary is May 19, 2026.

Pennsylvania’s general election is November 3, 2026.

PLEASE REGISTER TO VOTE if you have not already.

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PA Senate Bill 1293 has passed the Senate Education Committee on April 20, 2026, and will have a full Senate floor vote very soon.

An Act providing for sport activities in public institutions of higher education and public school entities to be expressly designated male, female or coed; and creating causes of action for harm suffered by designation.

Sponsored by Senator Judy Ward, R-30, and 18 Senate cosponsors, SB 1293 would keep men out of women’s sports. Senator Ward has frequently and strongly opposed allowing men to compete against women.

ACLU-PA has already emailed its members urging them to contact their PA state senators to oppose this bill. ACLU-PA boasts “100% success” in stopping bills like SB 1293. Our legislators must hear from us as well!!

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR PA STATE SENATOR AND URGE HER/HIM TO VOTE YES ON SB 1293!!

Find your PA state senator here.

Please contact your PA state senator TODAY!!

Thank you for supporting women, girls, and common sense in PA!

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Today, April 20, 2026, the PA Commonwealth Court struck down bans on public funding for abortion! (gift link)

Pennsylvania’s ban on public funding for abortion is unconstitutional, a divided Commonwealth Court ruled Monday.

In reaching that conclusion, the statewide court that oversees government-related matters recognized “a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy” in the Pennsylvania Constitution.

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In reaching that conclusion, the statewide court that oversees government-related matters recognized “a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy” in the Pennsylvania Constitution.

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Recognizing the right is necessary to restrict government “attempts to coerce reproductive choice,” Judge Matthew Wolf wrote, a Democrat, for the majority.

“Those choices are the People’s, not the government’s,” Wolf wrote.

Actually, Judge Matthew, those choices are WOMEN’S, not “the People’s.” (Yes, I know what he meant, but still!)

The ruling is the latest in a lawsuit filed in 2019 on behalf of seven abortion providers who argued the coverage restriction violates the Equal Rights Amendment because it excludes women and there is no comparable exclusion for men’s reproductive health. The limit on Medicaid funding amounts to an abortion restriction for poor women, attorneys for the providers told the court.

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“The fundamental right of a woman to decide whether to give birth is not subordinate to policy considerations favored by transient legislatures,” Donohue wrote on their behalf. “We conclude that the Pennsylvania Constitution secures the fundamental right to reproductive autonomy.” [Emphasis added.]

Judge Christine Donohue gets it right!

Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro declined to defend Our Fair Commonwealth’s ban on public funding for abortion. Instead, Republican PA Attorney General Dave Sunday defended it.

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More good news: Workplace relief is coming for [WOMEN] employees with period pain or hot flashes in Philly.

Perimenopause is the transitional period before menopause, marked by fluctuations in the hormones estrogen and progesterone. Menopause marks the end of the reproductive years, defined by not having a period for 12 consecutive months.

Good frickin’ grief! Why can’t this woman law professor, Ann Juliano, use the word WOMEN in her description of WOMEN’S bodies?? Whose “reproductive years,” Ann?

Experts in medicine and public health testified before Philadelphia City Council and described the physical and emotional symptoms women and girls may face during these life stages. These symptoms include abdominal or pelvic cramping, fatigue, mood changes, headaches, irregular menstrual cycles, hot flashes, sleep disturbances, and cognitive changes. [Emphasis added.]

There ya go, Professor. Was using “women and girls” so hard?

Now Our Fair Commonwealth needs to adopt these same nondiscrimination provisions for woman and girls statewide.

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On her Substack, Bridget Phetasy wrote A Love Letter to the Sane Women Holding It Down:

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while because, more often than not, I find myself doomscrolling, screaming “NOT ALL WOMEN!” It seems like most of the women represented in media are, for lack of a better word, insane. I blame the algorithms for elevating the craziest of us. So this is for you—the woman reading this who has been quietly holding it together while the world loses its collective mind. [Emphasis in the original.]

Do read Ms Phetasy’s entire post. It’s lovely. [h/t Kara Dansky]

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A subscriber sent this event to PA4SBR today:

Saturday is the big day for a gathering at the Harrisburg capital to encourage the passage of the statute of limitations look back window for those who were sexually exploited as children and the statute of limitations has expired. This is really really really important to all victims in Pa!

Please attend and please shared widely asap.

Sorry I just found out about it or I would have shared sooner!

Please attend if you can!

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Meanwhile, in Australia, Lesbian Action Group wins Federal Court appeal in bid to exclude transgender women MEN:

Justice [Mark] Moshinsky found exemptions to the Sex Discrimination Act could be allowed, even if they permitted conduct that would otherwise count as discrimination — contrary to what the tribunal ruled.

He found the tribunal was wrong to treat the mere fact that the exemption would involve discrimination against transgender women [sic] as automatically making it unlawful, since it was possible discrimination could result in a net positive outcome.

But Justice Moshinsky declined to make any ruling on whether that would be the case — finding only that the tribunal had erred in its legal reasoning and must reconsider the matter.

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He said the tribunal did not fully consider the LAG's arguments in relation to those human rights — having wrongly decided it wasn't bound to — and must do so when it remade its decision.

That’s right — the Australian Human Rights Commission failed to recognize that women have human rights.

The actual decision is here. Naturally, Australia’s alphabet-soup orgs are saying the decision is merely a technicality.

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Meanwhile, in the UK, one year has passed since their Supreme Court decided that men are not women. Has anything changed since then? Not much:

And yet, one year on, that clarity has not translated into action. Public bodies, regulators, employers and charities that were expected to review and update their policies continue to delay, avoid or outright resist change. Others are removing services for women and girls altogether.

Your Humble Author saw this very sad item on LinkedIn a few minutes ago:

The OP wrote this:

Because the focus here should not be on a little boy's exclusion from a girls’ organisation.

It should be on the welfare of a child expressing distress in such extreme terms - and what support is in place.

That is where the adult responsibility lies. Not with affirming a six-year-old child's gender identity.

Trans violence is out of control:

The first hints of the current wave of violence began last year. Following the landmark judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd vs The Scottish Ministers, in which the Supreme Court confirmed that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refers to biological sex, the women behind the campaign reported being inundated with death threats and misogynistic abuse. They also described the damage their views had caused to their employment and business interests.

So no, not much has changed in the UK in one year. But TERF Island is still far ahead of the USA. Misogyny and lies will take much longer to go away.

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Some good news: The Happiest Women in Their 70s Are Single.

Across their stories, there’s no regret or hint of “missing out.” Just single older ladies enjoying where they are—nothing like the caricatures of the bitter man-hater or the desperate, unlucky romantic we’re used to seeing.

Woo hoo!!

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Dear Readers, here are some important dates for Our Fair Commonwealth’s primary election.

• Primary election is May 19, 2026.

• Last day to register to vote in the primary is May 4, 2026.

• Last day to request a mail-in or absentee ballot is May 12, 2026.

For additional election information, go here.

PA needs poll workers!! Sign up here.

SpotlightPA has a series on the races in Our Commonwealth, beginning with the governor.

Your complete guide to Democrat Josh Shapiro

Your complete guide to Republican Stacy Garrity

In addition, in 2026 every member of Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives and half our state Senate will be on the ballot.

Pa. election 2026: A guide to vetting primary candidates

The 2026 primaries likely to shape the Pennsylvania House and Senate

VOTE!! If our votes don’t matter, then why are some politicians so eager to suppress them?

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PA4SBR hasn’t featured a lagniappe for a few posts, so here is one that is long overdue. Be sure to watch the brief video below the article.

Photos show the ‘Feline Oscars,’ an international feline beauty competition in Romania

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h/t LinkedIn

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PLEASE continue to request constituent meetings with US Senators Fetterman and McCormick and you US House rep during May 18-21, 2026. Background for these meetings is here and here.

Contact Senator Fetterman

Contact Senator McCormick

Find your US House rep

PA News

General Assembly

PA Rep Ismail Wade-Smith-El, D-49, introduced a Memo that states:

I plan to introduce the Protection of Minors from Conversion Therapy Act to address harms associated with conversion therapy by prohibiting a mental health professional from engaging in this archaic treatment with an individual under the age of 18.

In his Memo, Rep Wade-Smith-El claims “This therapy often consists of talk therapy, abusive physical treatments such as electric shock and induced vomiting, and emotionally abusive tactics.” Talk therapy is simply real psychotherapy. Apparently exploring why a minor questions or rejects her/his sex is unacceptable; only unconditional “affirmation” is what Rep Wade-Smith-El wants to mandate. The latter four practices are tortures only inflicted by religious fundamentalists. No ethical psychotherapist would ever do these things today, although they have in the past. Once again, TQ++++ are force-teaming themselves with actual LGB rights.

The timing of this Memo so soon after SCOTUS ruling on Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban is probably not a coincidence.

PA SB 9, the Save Women’s Sports Act, is now in the PA House Children & Youth Committee. On March 25, 2026:

The minority chair [Rep Katie Klunk, R-169] made a motion to consider SB 9. The majority chair ruled that the bill is not on the agenda. The minority chair made a motion to appeal the ruling of the chair.

Rep Klunk’s motion passed 14-8. Maybe now this bipartisan bill that already passed the PA Senate will finally make it to the PA House floor for a vote.

PA4SBR will continue to monitor Memoranda and legislation in the General Assembly.

General PA News

What the Supreme Court’s ruling on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban could mean for Pa. and N.J. (See Rep Wade-Smith-El’s Memo above.)

In Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration announced it was banning minor conversion therapy. Pennsylvania’s law was enacted by regulation, while the majority of other states with bans in place were put in place by legislation.

Westmoreland County LGBTQ+ proclamation request rejected again by commissioners

Pa. lawmakers announce caucus to fight human trafficking

Which Pa. counties had the most discrimination claim investigations? (May be paywalled)

Allegheny led all counties with 174 claims filed between July 2024 and June 2025. Philadelphia, Dauphin and Montgomery counties were second through fourth respectively.

Dauphin County, however, had the most claims filed per capita. Dauphin had 55.2 claims filed for every 10,000 residents in that county.

As domestic violence homicides rise in Philly, a police unit will expand to work with victims of abuse

Federal judge shuts door on Justice Department effort to wrest transgender care data from UPMC

“Its rhetoric regarding gender-­affirming care [sic] reflects callous indifference, if not abject cruelty,” Chief U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon of the Western District of Pennsylvania wrote of the Justice Department. “There is more than a ‘whiff’ of ill-intent. Arguably, it is closer to a stench.”

One of first female officials cites Steelers training camp incident in sweeping lawsuit against NFL

Education

New grants will let Pittsburgh universities increase sexual assault education, trainings

Focus groups to engage male students will also be a big part of Pitt’s grant. [FINALLY!]

Campbell said male-identifying students [???] often don’t feel comfortable in prevention spaces. The focus groups will help the office figure out how to get male students to feel “called in” to prevention work, rather than called out. [Let’s not hurt the poor fragile males!]

Berwick School District adopts trans name, bathroom policy

Pine-Richland school board takes steps to reverse controversial library policy

Pride flags at Upper Perkiomen Middle School have sparked debate about ‘political messaging’

Public schools should focus on education, “not personal beliefs, ideological messaging, or the promotion of sexual orientation,” the group said in a message circulated in March.

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Misc Trans News

‘Everyone’s wearing Barb this season’. How one Atlantic City woman’s costume jewelry collection wound up adorning Philly’s drag queens.

The day after Barb’s funeral in November 2024, Weinberger texted Jarbeaux, aka Rose Jarboe — the creator of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and one of Philadelphia’s leading nightlife performers.

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“Jewelry is armor, and queer and trans people need a lot of armor right now,” she said. “I don’t know what Barb was protecting with her mounds of things, but she had plenty of armor to share.”

Trans youth rally at Pa. Capitol: ‘The system will not save us’

Philadelphia opens new LGBTQ+ visitor center, one of few in country

Trans teens in Pittsburgh scramble to access care months after options were largely cut off

Drop-in center opens in Downtown to support trans Pittsburghers

On Smithfield Street in Downtown Tuesday evening, about 60 people gathered for the opening of the Stonewall Inn, a new drop-in center for transgender Pittsburghers that will offer laundry services, showers, free food and clothes and mental health services.

There’s nothing wrong with people helping people. Once again, however, the TQ+++ have appropriated an LGB icon…

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Not All Men — A Few of Many, Many Links

Man charged with groping woman wearing Easter Bunny costume at Pa. mall

Man ‘terrorized’ ex-girlfriend in Crafton, now headed to trial

Pa. amusement park hired man with sex assault history who befriended girl, raped her

Bucks County man accused of targeting women, underage girls in nationwide sextortion

Gettysburg ex-mayor’s arrest in child sex case hinders organizations he founded

Carr was the founding executive artistic director of the Gettysburg Community Theatre starting in 2009, as well as the co-founder of Gettysburg Pride in 2017.

And in both cases, the volunteers with the organizations have found that Carr’s role was not just central, but all-encompassing.

Lancaster County teens who created AI nude images of classmates will get probation, pay $12,000 in restitution

Family Court judge charged with assaulting his wife and daughter is suspended without pay

The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline on Thursday suspended a Philadelphia judge without pay after he was charged this week with repeatedly punching his wife, choking her, and assaulting his adult daughter.

The order follows a Wednesday petition in which the state’s Judicial Conduct Board asked that Common Pleas Court Judge Michael Fanning, 60, be removed from the bench until the criminal case against him is resolved.

The suspension is effective immediately.

DNA evidence links Harrisburg man to 3rd child rape

He’s been jailed since December 2024, when police charged him in connection with the abduction of a 12-year-old girl walking home from school who said he raped her at his uptown Harrisburg home. He didn’t know the girl, police said, and had been following her while wearing a mask and all-black clothing.

Finley was also charged on March 23 after police say he used a fake photo on Snapchat to lure a 13 or 14-year-old girl to his house, where he raped her, the affidavit said. She’s now 15.

Whitehall man pleads guilty to stalking 11 women online, in person

“Dadig has referenced strangling people with his bare hands, called himself ‘God’s assassin,’ stated that women who ‘(mess)’ with him are ‘going to (expletive) hell,’ and declared on his podcast that he is nice until he is pushed to the breaking point, at which point he will ‘stop at absolutely nothing to bury you into the (expletive) ground,’” according to the criminal complaint.

Ocean County College dean charged with sex assault of minor, prosecutors say

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h/t Rachel Wong, LinkedIn

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Your Humble Author is quite behind on posting. As always, she does her best.

FINALLY, the IOC banned men from women’s events!

Now IOC needs to revoke all the medals cheating men stole from women. Naturally, entitled men and their handmaids are furious at this “human rights violation.” According to them, women don’t have have human rights. Here is a selection of links on this topic.

Human rights experts raise concerns over Olympics transgender women [MALE] athlete ban

Advocacy groups get trans athlete bans on ballots in Maine, Colorado (gift link)

80 "human rights groups" oppose IOC's ban on men in women's events

The case for sex screening in sport (Yay Dr Emma Hilton!)

[2028] LA Olympics will be first to impose IOC's ban on trans [MALE] athletes from women's sports

The Olympics’ transgender [MALE] athlete ban is a legal and moral minefield (No, it’s not.)

King Charles' youth charity cancelled boxing course for disadvantaged girls instead of banning biological males after parents raised safety concerns

SCOTUS overturns “conversion therapy” ban

This is a victory for common sense and protecting kids. Now psychotherapists can actually do real psychotherapy instead of mandatory “affirmation” of confused kids.

US Supreme Court strikes down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

The Supreme Court repels ‘an egregious assault’ on the First Amendment (gift link)

Supreme Court rules against ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ minors

[American Psychological Association] concerned about far-reaching consequences from Supreme Court decision regarding therapy as ‘free speech’

Caring for Transgender Patients in a Shifting Landscape (Note that the topic is “Women and Gender.” Why not “Men and Gender?”)

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Meanwhile, here in PA

The PA House passed HB 1800, the Marriage Equality Act, which would repeal our Commonwealth’s law restricting legal marriage to one woman and one man. This is good news for Pennsylvanians!

Pennsylvania lawmakers pass marriage equality legislation

‘A fundamental right’: Pa. House again passes bill to end state’s unenforced gay marriage ban

The measure, which would strike the line in state law saying that marriage is “between one man and one woman,” passed on a 127-to-72 vote, with all but one Democrat voting for it, along with 26 Republicans.

Wednesday’s vote lost support over the same bill that passed in the House two years ago, 133-to-68, although the vote is consistent with polls showing a recent backlash to gay marriage among the GOP voter base. The previous bill was not taken up in the Republican-majority state Senate, and the current one is also a longshot.

The same day, PA House passes same-sex marriage bill, delays vote on Fairness Act amid heated debate

A bill, HB 300, [link added] aimed at banning discrimination against LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians, referred to as the “Fairness Act,” was pulled from a planned vote after supporters acknowledged it did not have the necessary backing to pass.

The same bill had passed the House 102-98 in 2023 during the previous session. The numerical makeup of Democrats and Republicans in the chamber has not changed in the period since.

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“It's going to create a very unfair circumstance for a lot of different people,” Kail said. “The term ‘public accommodation,’ which is in the bill, means that it will apply to sports. It could apply to bathrooms, locker rooms, all kinds of different things. The unintended consequences of this bill would, in fact, be devastating.”

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“I think the more Pennsylvania finds about this bill, the less that they'll like it. And maybe that's why it was pulled,” [Kail] said.

Yes, devastating for WOMEN. We would lose our rights to single-sex facilities, athletics, education, rape and domestic violence services, homeless shelters, and prisons.

It’s very interesting that the PA House passed a bill protecting same-sex marriage while the primary sponsor of the (Un)Fairness Act, Rep Malcolm Kenyatta, D-181, pulled his bill because the House would not pass it. (Rep Kenyatta also sponsored the Marriage Equality Act.) This might be a sign that many elected officials are more skeptical about “trans rights” claims and may be more amenable to LGB rights without the TQ+++. Will our legislators reject the forced-teaming of LGB with TQ+++? This could be a start in the right direction.

Also in Our Fair Commonwealth:

Record number of women serving in Pennsylvania House

PA women continue to make political herstory. Note that the author of this article, Rep Joanna McClinton, D-191, is the Speaker of the PA House. While she extols women’s political achievements, she apparently doesn’t know what a woman is. She is firmly on the trans train. SMH.

From an email from Governor Shapiro’s Office of Public Engagement:

During Women’s History Month, Governor Josh Shapiro and First Lady Lori Shapiro sat down with the Executive Director and 29 appointees to the Advisory Commission on Women to learn about women’s experiences and needs across the state and to share his budget priorities that will empower and support women.

To continue delivering real opportunity and freedom to every Pennsylvanian, Governor Shapiro’s Advisory Commission on Women launched a statewide public survey and listening tour to hear directly from the women of Pennsylvania. For more information visit here .

Please complete the survey if you have not done so. Of course, a survey from the Advisory Commission on Women includes men and men’s entitlement.

If you live in Allegheny County, US Rep Chris Deluzio, D-17, invites you to “talk about the cost of youth sports.” Maybe some Dear Readers can attend and tell US Rep Deluzio about the “high cost” to girls and women of cheating boys and men in our sports. RSVP here .

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Finally, our lagniappe

Here’s another musical prodigy, Alexandra Dovgan, AGE 11. Listen to her exquisite interpretation, flawless timing, and feel of the music. Ms Dovgan is now 18 and remains a world-class pianist. Think of all the girls throughout history, such as Maria Anna Mozart, who shared Ms Dovgan’s talent but were denied their opportunity to exercise it.

Alexandra Dovgan - Felix Mendelssohn, Concerto for Piano No.1 in G Minor, Op.25

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PLEASE ACT TODAY!!

LGB Courage Coalition just issued an urgent action alert.

Earlier this year, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons did something remarkable: they said no more gender surgeries on patients under 19. It was a turning point. Now Dr. Scot Glasberg — one of the surgeons who helped make that happen — is bringing the same resolution to New York’s state medical society, MSSNY, which represents 30,000 physicians.

The vote is this weekend.

Trantifa have already inundated MSSNY with opposing emails.

WE NEED TO TELL MSSNY ASAP TO VOTE YES ON DR GLASBERG’S RESOLUTION.

They are voting this weekend!

All we need to do is send a few simple emails TODAY.

• MemberResources@MSSNY.org — general contact/member resources inbox

• mssny@mssny.org — Capitol District HQ, governance and legislative affairs

• vcammiso@mssny.org — Valerie Cammiso, VP of Meeting Planning (directly oversees HOD logistics)

• jvecchione@mssny.org — Julie Vecchione, VP of Communications

Email: Hod@mssny.org [Be sure to capitalize the H.]

Subject: Please Support Evidence-Based Medicine — Vote YES on Dr. Glasberg’s Resolution

All we have to do is copy and paste LGBCC’s text:

Dear Members of the MSSNY House of Delegates,

I am writing to urge you to vote YES on Dr. Scot Glasberg’s resolution on gender surgeries for minors.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons already took this courageous step nationally. The UK, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark have all reviewed the evidence and done the same. New York’s physicians have the opportunity to stand with the evidence too.

Please do not let political pressure override medical judgment. You have more support than you know. Vote yes.

[Your name] [Your city/state]

Please share this action alert with everybody you know. We must tell MSSNY that trans agitators promote their ideology over science.

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h/t Why Evolution Is True

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A Clarification

Dear Readers, Your Humble Author apologizes for confusing many of you. In a previous post, she requested that you contact Senators Fetterman and McCormick and your US House member to schedule constituent meetings from May 18-21, 2026.

Some legislators will ONLY schedule meetings with their constituents. This is the reason we need you to contact your US House member. WoLF will have a few PA women in DC to attend the meetings you schedule. You don’t need to attend your meetings in-person. However, if you want to, you can participate via speakerphone; several PA women participated via mobile phone last year when we met with a sickeningly misogynist member of Senator Fetterman's staff. So PLEASE contact both PA US Senators and your US House Representative and schedule meetings from May 18-21 when WoLF will be in DC.

Then contact PA4SBR via Substack with the dates and times. Your Humble Author will email WoLF with your info. As always, you can remain anonymous. Please DO NOT post your meetings on social media. Trantifa will see them and frighten our Members of Congress to cancel them AND warn others to reject our requests. This is what happened last year.

Note that all Pennsylvanians are Senators Fetterman and McCormick’s constituents. Only your US House rep wants to know her/his constituency.

Here is the contact info for PA:

Contact Senator Fetterman

Contact Senator McCormick

Find your US House rep

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Another Action Alert — Protect Detransitioners!

This alert comes to us from Do No Harm.

Recently, Do No Harm asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider new medical diagnosis codes, known as ICD-10 codes, related to gender transition and detransition.

Our proposed codes are urgently needed to ensure that detransitioners are fully visible to the healthcare system and can get the care they need. Additionally, these codes would improve research and medical care for those suffering from gender dysphoria.

Now, the CDC needs to hear from you!

The agency is accepting comments on our proposed codes up until April 17, 2026.

For more information and how to act, go here.

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PA HB 300

As many Dear Readers may know, on March 10, 2026, the PA House Judiciary Committee passed a series of pro-alphabet-soup and anti-women bills along party lines. You can read the all gory details here.

Many PA media are praising this as a win for the “LGBTQ community:”

A Pa. House committee advanced proposals to enshrine same-sex marriage and expand hate-crime penalties — but they’re unlikely to become state law

Pa. House panel advances package of bills to codify LGBTQ protections

Pa. Democrats try again to advance pro-LGBTQ bills, including protecting same-sex marriage

The only win for LGB Pennsylvanians was marriage equality (HB 1800.) Every other Pennsylvanian — ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND GIRLS, as usual — lost big time.

PA4SBR subscriber Emily Kreps has an excellent article analyzing the Judiciary Committee’s votes. Thank you, Emily!

Women are expected to simply accept this? And if we don’t?

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A woman who questions why a trans-identifying male is in her locker room could now be treated not as someone raising a legitimate concern, but as someone engaging in the moral equivalent of physical intimidation.

Taken together, these bills represent a sweeping ideological shift in Pennsylvania law; one that elevates subjective self-expression or identity over objective biological reality, and in doing so, places the burden squarely on women.

Women are being told to step aside in their own sports. To stay silent in their own spaces. To accept discomfort, risk, and expose themselves to males in the name of someone else’s identity.

And if they push back, women are told they are the problem. That is not equality. That is not fairness. That is not tolerance.

To deny women and girls’ rights more, the Judiciary Committee voted to re-re-re-refer SB 9, PA’s Protect Women’s Sports Act, to another House committee along party lines. The Democrats continue to employ procedural shenanigans to prevent an actual women’s-rights bill to come to a vote. Every Pennsylvanian should be outraged.

Here’s what’s gonna happen even more frequently without SB 9 and with HB 300 as law in PA:

Parents, athletes say silence surrounds boys in girls’ races

Lilyana Williams: A boy invaded our locker room. The adults chose silence.

Beth Ann Rosica: Despite federal order, Pennsylvania may continue to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports (Dr Rosica is a PA4SBR contributor.)

Gleim: House Democrats Choose Political Games Over Protecting Female Athletes

Bucks County runner lost to a trans athlete [a biological male] and sued. Here's what the court decided.

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro calls supporters of ban on transgender athletes ‘extremist legislators,’ declines to say if he’d veto

Transgender Coach At Pennsylvania High School Who Was Previously Accused Of Undressing In Front Of Teen Girls RESIGNS After Starring In Porn While Smoking Meth

Pennsylvania transgender runner to race in girls’ state finals despite Trump executive order

Courageously, one woman member of the House Judiciary Committee defied the misogynist Democrats. Rep Kate Klunk, R-169, defended the integrity of women-only sports. Watch her speech here. Thank you to a PA4SBR subscriber for sharing this link.

We need to thank Rep Klunk for her advocacy for women and girls’ sports! Please contact her here. Any Pennsylvanian can email her, not just her constituents.

As always, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR PA WOMEN, GIRLS, AND ALL KIDS!

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Source: WoLF Sisters in Action

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Here are more women to celebrate during Women’s History Month.

They are all Your Humble Author’s personal sheroes. Please learn about these amazing women!

March 9: Wilma Rudolph, who overcame childhood polio to become the first US woman to win three gold medals and set three world records at a single Olympics

March 10: Michelle Kwan, five-time world figure skating champion and the most decorated US figure skater in history

March 12: THE GODDESS Martina Navratilova!

March 13: Emmy Noether, the greatest mathematician of the 20th century and corrected Einstein (and has a Pennsylvania connection!)

March 14: Cecilia Payne, who revolutionized astronomy with the most significant PhD thesis in the history of her field

March 15: Marya Sklodowska Curie, the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences and the most significant PhD thesis in the history of chemistry

March 16: Lise Meitner, discoverer of nuclear fission who was denied a Nobel Prize because of her sex and ethnicity

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A poster for women’s suffrage, 1920. Library of Congress.

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First, THANK YOU to everyone who contacted the PA House Judiciary Committee to oppose HB 300. As you may know, this bill, The(Un)Fairness Act, passed the Committee on a party-line vote. Your Humble Author will post about this later. Late, but she does what she can.

WoLF is Returning to DC

Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF) will be lobbying Members of Congress (MoC) in our nation’s capital from May 18-21, 2026. We need your help scheduling meetings with PA Members of Congress. PLEASE contact Senators Fetterman and McCormick and your US House rep to request meetings with them during this time. Especially if you are not going to DC, we need you to call as a constituent to request a meeting. The more MoC hear from us, the more likely they are to schedule meetings. The entire US House is up for reelection this year, so that’s additional encouragement. Here is a sample script:

“Rep/Sen, My name is XX and I am your constituent in District YY (or give your address.) Some of your constituents will be in DC from May 18-21, 2026. We would like to meet with you to discuss women’s rights in this election year. (If applicable) We thank you for your votes supporting women’s rights on bill numbers ZZZ. We would like to further discuss women’s rights. Thank you.”

I suggest NOT saying you’re a sex-realist or affiliated with WoLF or any other organization. You are a concerned constituent for women’s rights in this election year for the House. However, do tell them that 3-5 constituents will be in DC to meet them as a group. Meetings with legislative aides are just as good as with the MoC.

Even if you know your US rep (and Senator Fetterman) are completely riding the trans train, contact them anyway. Our elected officials need to listen to their constituents or we will vote them out. Remind your US rep that s/he is up for reelection this year.

Please keep calling and using your MoC’s Contact Me website until you receive a reply. Dear Readers who get a meeting scheduled (YAY!!) can contact PA4SBR via Substack with the date and time. Any time between May 18-21 is fine.

Contact Senator Fetterman

Contact Senator McCormick

Find your US House rep

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Tell Senators McCormick and Fetterman to OPPOSE the “SAVE Act”

As some Dear Readers may know, the US Senate will vote on the “SAVE Act” (S.1383) this Wednesday, March 18, 2026. Your Humble Author urges you to contact our senators to OPPOSE this bill.

This is a sex-based rights issue because the SAVE Act targets married women. Repealing the Nineteenth Amendment is one of the goals listed in Project 2025. The “SAVE Act” is the first step.

If any eligible US voter wants to register for the first time, update their address, or change anything else about their registration, they must produce specific official documents proving that they are a US citizen. This narrow list of documents includes a valid (not expired) US passport or a certified copy of their birth certificate, all of which must match the voter’s legal name.

Approximately 69 million married American women voters have taken their spouses’ names. Contrary to popular belief, this is NOT legally required. It is only a custom. Married women (and men) who want to take their spouses’ names do NOT need to legally change their names; they can just begin using their spouses’ names. Many divorced women continue to use their spouses’ names even after their divorces are finalized. Married and divorced women, then, will not have birth certificates that match their married names, so they will be unable to vote or even register to vote. Official documents showing that a woman legally changed her name to match her original birth certificate are NOT acceptable for voting. So there!

If the SAVE Act passes, then the 69 million married American women who want to exercise our Constitutional right to vote will need to obtain the documents that are on that very narrow list. Married or not, men will not need to prove their citizenship to vote. ONLY MARRIED WOMEN will. This makes the SAVE Act a sex-based rights issue. It disenfranchises women specifically.

Moreover, passports and birth certificates cost time and money to procure. Not everybody has the money to get them; in fact, most Americans have never even applied for a passport let alone possess a valid one. Again, this is another obstacle to low-income married women to exercising our Constitutional right to vote.

Please contact Senators Fetterman and McCormick at the links above. Senator Fetterman has already changed his position in favor of the SAVE Act to opposing it after constituent feedback. We need to reinforce that feedback.

As always, thank you for all you do for women’s sex-based rights!

An anti-suffrage poster from 1920. Library of Congress.

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According to the Library of Congress:

Born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933[,] in Brooklyn, New York, Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States for 27 years. An exceptional student, Ginsburg graduated at the top of her class from Cornell University. From 1956-1958, Ginsburg was a student at Harvard Law School, where she was the first woman member and editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1958, Ginsburg moved to New York. She was admitted to Columbia Law School, where she graduated, tied for first in her class, in 1959. Ginsburg became the first woman tenured faculty member at Columbia Law School in 1972.

During the 1970s, Ginsburg was the founding director of the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Can you imagine what Notorious RBG would say to the ACLU today? She’d be enraged and horrified at what they’ve become and what they’ve done to her Women’s Rights Project.

Remember when the ACLU disgracefully removed all references to women in this RBG quote?

Justice Ginsburg, women need you here today. We will continue to fight until women’s sex-based rights are secure and we are full political, social, and economic equals with men.

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If you have not contacted your state rep, the sponsors, and the PA House Judiciary Committee to oppose PA HB 300, here's how. Do this NOW!

Happy International Women’s Day! The UN designated March 8 to be an annual celebration of women’s contributions to our world. Your Humble Author continues her salute to a few under-recognized women in this post in chronological order. All of these sheroes were medical and scientific pioneers. Millions of people worldwide are alive because of them.

March 4: Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, 1821-1910

Born in Britain, Dr Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman awarded an M.D. degree in the USA. Many nineteenth-century physicians, including a few women, practiced without a degree, but Elizabeth Blackwell wanted to attain full professional status. She was rejected by all the major medical schools in our nation because of her sex. Her application to Geneva Medical School (now Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York) was referred to the student body. They accepted with great hilarity, believing that it was a spoof perpetrated by a rival school. Working with quiet determination, Ms Blackwell turned aside the open hostility of her professors, students, and townspeople. She earned her medical degree in 1849.

Dr Blackwell completed her medical education in Europe, but faced additional difficulties in setting up her practice when she returned to New York. Barred from city hospitals, she founded her own infirmary. Eventually, she founded a Women’s Medical College to train other women physicians.

Dr Blackwell’s educational standards were higher than the all-male medical schools. Her courses emphasized the importance of proper sanitation and hygiene to prevent diseases. She later returned to Britain and spent the rest of her life there, working to expand medical opportunities for women as she had in the USA.

March 5: Virginia Apgar, MD, 1909-1974

Dr Virginia Apgar, brilliant physician and humanitarian, is best known for her development of the Apgar Score in 1952, a system to determine whether a newborn infant needs special attention to stay alive. In most births at the time, attention was focused on mothers, not the newborns, which resulted in high infant mortality. Dr Apgar’s simple test, performed in the very first minutes of a baby’s life, measures an infant’s pulse, skin color, activity, and respiration very quickly, enabling medical staff to intervene if the infant requires assistance to survive. This simple but brilliantly conceived examination has saved countless newborn lives all over the world.

One of the few women admitted to Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in the 1930s, Dr Apgar trained first in surgery, but shifted to anesthesiology, a new field that offered the opportunity to do groundbreaking work. She was soon named director of anesthesiology at Columbia, the first woman to head any department at the University. In 1949, after she built a major academic department in the discipline, she was named the first full professor of anesthesiology – the first woman to hold a full professorship in any discipline at Columbia University.

Dr Apgar shifted her career again in 1959 when she became a senior executive with the national foundation March of Dimes, and worked to generate public support and funds for research on birth defects. She was a spectacular fundraiser and public educator, greatly increasing both visibility and attention paid to birth defects.

In 1973, Dr Apgar became the first woman to receive the Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Medicine from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In 1994, Dr Apgar was pictured on a U.S. postage stamp as part of the Great Americans series.

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March 6: Gertrude Elion, 1918-1999

One of the USA’s most distinguished research scientists, Gertrude Elion’s Nobel Prize in 1988 capped a career devoted to combat some of the world’s most dangerous diseases. And she did not have a doctorate!

Ms Elion, working predominantly with George Hitchings, created drugs to combat leukemia, gout, malaria, herpes, and autoimmune disorders. She and Hitchings devised a system for designing drugs that led to the development of the AIDS drug AZT.

In the 1950s Ms Elion pioneered the development of two drugs that interfered with the reproduction of cancer cells to cause remission in childhood leukemia. In 1957 she created the first immunosuppressive agent, leading to successful organ transplants. In 1977, her work led to the development of the first drug used against viral herpes.

Gertrude Elion, who lost both her grandfather and mother to cancer, never lost sight of the humans whose lives her research affects. She said, “When you meet someone who has lived for 25 years with a kidney graft, there’s your reward.”

March 7: Flossie Wong-Stahl, PhD, 1947-2020

Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal was a world-renowned molecular biologist and virologist and one of the pioneers in research on HIV, the causative agent of AIDS. She and her team of scientists at the US National Cancer Institute were the first to molecularly clone HIV and to elucidate the complex structure of its genome. This accomplishment was instrumental in proving HIV to be the cause of AIDS, and in the subsequent development of diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for the disease. She and her team were also the first to show that HIV is highly heterogeneous in patient populations, forecasting the importance of combination (cocktail) therapy to combat AIDS.

Dr Wong-Staal obtained a bachelor’s degree in bacteriology in 1968 and a Ph.D. in molecular biology in1972 , both from UCLA. In 1973, she joined Dr. Robert Gallo’s laboratory at the National Cancer Institute as a Research Fellow. During that time, she became interested in the class of viruses called retroviruses, which were powerful tools in molecular biology. Furthermore, she was enamored of the idea that retroviruses could be potential pathogens in human disease. This notion, though initially not very popular among leading scientists, was later validated in the case of AIDS and certain human leukemias. Dr. Wong-Staal published more than 400 peer-reviewed academic papers on the subject of human retroviruses and AIDS. In 1990, based on the citation index of her published work, she was selected by the Institute for Scientific Information as the top woman scientist of the previous decade. She received numerous honors and awards, including membership in the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and the Academia Sinica of Taiwan.

In 1990, Dr Wong-Staal left her position as Section Chief at the National Cancer Institute and returned to California to assume the Riford Chair in AIDS Research and Professorship in the Departments of Biology and Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD.) Later, she became Director of the AIDS Research Institute and co-Director of the Center for AIDS Research at UCSD. In 2002, she left academia to direct research at biotechnology companies focused on applying novel approaches to target cancer and viral infections including HIV and hepatitis C virus. In addition to research in these various settings, she also enjoyed mentoring young scientists from all over the world, many of whom have become accomplished scientists in their own right.

March 8: International Women’s Day!

PA4SBR salutes all women and girls who are fighting to preserve our rights to fundamental fairness, safety, privacy, and dignity. You are all sheroes!

For more info on International Women’s Day and the UN Conference on the Status of Women, go here.

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Pennsylvania House Bill 300 is scheduled for a Judiciary Committee vote on March 10, 2026.

HB 300 is The Fairness Act, the state version of the federal Equality Act. Like its federal version, HB 300 would enshrine “gender identity” and “gender expression” in our state Constitution. Should this bill pass, women will be erased as a sex class.

PA4SBR urges you to contact your PA state rep and the House Judiciary Committee and tell them to OPPOSE HB 300.

Tell your rep that you support legal protection from discrimination for LGB Pennsylvanians. Tell your rep that you oppose the forced teaming of TQ+++. Emphasize that women and girls will be erased as a legally protected sex class should this bill pass. Women and girls’ rights are based on biological sex, NOT an amorphous and subjective “gender identity.” Share your experiences of males “identifying” into female facilities, athletics, rape/DV services, etc. Tell your rep how wrong allowing men into any women-only facility or services is. Tell her/him that the “Fairness Act” is UNFAIR to women.

If your rep is a cosponsor of HB 300, we ESPECIALLY need you to contact her/him. You can find your PA state rep here.

Please also contact all the members of the House Judiciary Committee. Its members are listed here.

Thank you for defending the sex-based rights of PA women and girls!

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h/t Subscriber EK

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International News, in No Particular Order

GOOD NEWS! EU opens up funding to guarantee abortion rights across bloc; Women from countries with near-total bans on terminations will be given help to access services elsewhere.

Brazilian Veterinary Student Faces Up to 10 Years in Prison for Social Media Comments on Gender Ideology . Unbelievable.

Meanwhile, in the UK:

• UK’s gender [sic] pay gap ‘won’t close for 30 years’ at current rates

• Progress on gender [sex] equality at top of UK’s biggest firms ‘achingly slow’

• NHS staff are told they can use 'Xey/Xem' pronouns at work in new guidance - and colleagues who get them wrong have to say sorry. No comment.

• Domestic abuse and indecent messages on the rise in Scotland

• Scottish government orders public inquiry into grooming gangs. It’s abut frickin’ time.

Uh, UK? You need to fix all your misogyny before you can achieve sex-based equality…

NZ’s Minister for Women says 'no' to the Women’s Suffrage flag; and 'yes' to Zonta who welcomes men who say they’re women. “NZ women are denied just one flag to fly at Parliament on Suffrage Day, whilst FIVE flags are flown on 17 May for gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex people.” New Zealand rivals Tranada for its institutionalized misogyny.

Meanwhile, New Zealand’s neighbor has its own fight for reality. ‘Chilling effect’: Lesbian group fights human rights commission to exclude trans women. “A Federal Court battle has begun over whether biological sex trumps gender identity, with lesbians claiming their rights have been ‘subordinated’ to transgender interests.” Notice how the media never say “women defend their right to free association and women-only socials.” It’s always “exclude TIMs.” SMH.

GI comes to Eastern Europe: Polish defence minister cancels “gender training” for soldiers after backlash.

Sierra Leone’s harsh new laws to protect women and girls are causing harm in the wrong places.

In the decades after Sierra Leone’s civil war (1991-2002), there was pressure on the west African country to demonstrate progress on gender [sic] equality. Laws were passed to fight domestic violence, rape and teen pregnancy. But drawing on colonial legal models, the reforms don’t always match social realities and in many cases are harming young people from poor communities. Punishment is being made more important than resolution or education.

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Here is the most appalling news from the EU

‘Trans Women’ Are Women, EU Parliament Says.

Men who identify as women should not only be included in all the EU’s feminist policies—the recognition of their ‘right’ to be treated as women should also be defended as a priority. That’s the recommendation from the European Parliament to the Council, approved this Thursday in the Strasbourg plenary.

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A proposed amendment stating that “only biological women [sic] can become pregnant” was rejected after 233 MEPs voted against it, with 200 for and 107 abstentions.

Sex, Law, and the EU’s 340–141 Vote; The European Parliament’s refusal to anchor pregnancy to biological sex signals a structural shift in how sex is treated in law.

The resolution does not amend treaties or compel immediate statutory change. But EU governance does not operate solely through hard law. Parliamentary resolutions shape Commission priorities and influence how equality frameworks are interpreted across member states.

Language adopted at this stage often migrates — from guidance, to funding priorities, to regulatory expectation.

This vote shifts the line between biology and law.

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The rejected pregnancy amendment is the fulcrum. Law depends on categories that can be administered. Reproductive health policy, medical research, crime data, sports eligibility, prison placement, and sex-segregated protections all require clarity about biological sex. In sport, those categories determine competitive fairness. In prisons and female-only shelters, they affect safety.

When legislators decline to state who can become pregnant, they are not merely broadening inclusion. They are signaling that biology itself is negotiable in statutory language.

So, according to the EU, a man who thinks he’s a woman always supersedes real women. Every. Single. Time. There can be no doubt that “trans rights” has always been a men’s rights movement. Watch the videos of women members of the European Parliament cheering their own subordination and erasure. Hello??!! Do you realize WTF you just did?? This is simply disgusting. I can’t even.

In another deeply disturbing development, UK First: Woman Gives Birth After Womb Transplant From Deceased Donor.

"This is a huge milestone, giving more hope to women who do not have a womb and are looking to start a family," says [transplant surgeon Isabel] Quiroga, who works at the Oxford Transplant Centre, part of the NHS Foundation Trust.

If uterus transplants were only used to help women without uteri (the article later says “people born without a womb”) this would probably be good news. However, we all know uterus transplants will not stop there. “People born without a womb” — IOW, MEN — will demand uteri. AGPs will lead the charge. So, as usual, improving women’s lives will take a back seat to fulfilling men’s delusions.

At least Britain left the EU (Brexit.) So we hope that TWAW doesn’t apply, especially with the recent UK Supreme Court landmark decision that TWANOTW. However, once the medical and surgical skill exists, it will spread all over the world, and in the EU men who think they’re women will have priority for a uterus transplant instead of actual women.

Today’s Much-Needed Palate Cleanser

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Today’s Women’s History Month honoree is western PA native Nellie Bly. From guides.loc.gov/nellie-bly:

"Nellie Bly" was the pseudonym used by Elizabeth Jane Cochran (1864-1922) during her pioneering career as an investigative reporter. Writing for the New York World, the daring Bly sought to expose the ills of society, going so far as having herself committed to an insane asylum to view first-hand the treatment of the mentally ill. She is perhaps best known for her reporting as she traveled around the globe to challenge the record of the fictional Phileas T. Fogg from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days—her journey lasted just over 72 days. In later years, Bly married millionaire manufacturer Robert Seaman. Taking over the Iron Clad Manufacturing Co. after his death, Elizabeth Cochran Seaman patented a steel barrel, viewed as the first practical 55-gallon oil drum. In 1998, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Readers can follow Bly’s journey around the world here. For more information about PA pioneering women journalists, read this article from the Heinz History Center.

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National News, in No Particular Order

Dear Readers may have heard about the kerfuffle in Kansas over drivers’ licenses. This only affects approximately 1800 Kansans. Of course, the MSM are entirely pro-trans.

Jesse Singal wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about youth “gender care.” Trans agitators didn’t like it. Leor Sapir did.

What The Dems Should Say On Trans Rights. Andrew Sullivan, a gay conservative, writes that Dems “can own the compassionate, sane center on this. Just drop the crazy.”

Inevitable: Medical groups sue over US FTC launching gender-affirming care probe.

Western WA state was a sanctuary for transing kids. Now not so much.

VA school board settles with two boys who complained about girls in their locker room.

Here’s an excellent article on why gay marriage isn’t a slippery slope to transmania.

Helen Joyce writes about no-debate dodos.

Why CA is a predators' paradise.

This is hilarious: The Woke Era. A Video Retrospective. Do watch the videos!

Not so hilarious: Use The Pronouns Or You'll Be Sorry. Also This Does Not Even Affect You, Why Do You Care?

Paxton sues Dallas doctor over ban on gender-affirming care.

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Today’s Lagniappe

h/t Bored Panda