Your Humble Author does not remember her source of this diagram, but similar ones are on many anti-violence websites.
First, Some Announcements
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. “Domestic violence” is a euphemism for male violence against women. We can’t offend the perps, can we? The PA State House recently adopted a resolution, HR 638, recognizing this month, and a second resolution, HR 645, is pending.
These are resolutions, not bodyguards, so they protect no woman (or man or child.) However, resolutions are useful for indicating how a chamber is thinking about an issue and in which direction they may vote on it.
WoLF has an article called "Why Doesn't She Leave?" Please read it.
October 16 is the annual Wear Purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Day. So please wear purple to show your support for women survivors of male violence.
If you or a woman you know lives in fear of her male abuser, go here for help or your local women’s shelter.
As Dear Readers probably know, PA’s midterm election is November 3, 2026. For other important election dates and deadlines, go PA voting and election information website.
PLEASE consider being a poll worker. PA desperately needs them. It’s a long day, but the work is not difficult. You will learn all about election laws and security while serving our Commonwealth. Find more info and apply here. Disclosure: Your Humble Author serves a a judge of elections in a local precinct.
Now, Our Feature Presentation
On September 28, 2026, PA Senate Bill 1293, a bill to protect women-only sports, has once again been reassigned to another committee. This time it’s the House Health Committee. Guess who’s responsible? SB 1293 passed the full Senate on April 22, 2026. On the bill’s webpage, you can trace its tortuous path through various House committees.
This is simply disgraceful. Dear Readers, write or call you PA state reps and demand they vote for this bill.
Subscriber and guest author Holly A Magalengo and subscriber Alexis Pasternak notified PA4SBR about a letter that a coalition of anti-woman groups sent to the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA.) Here is that letter:
When Dear Readers see a letter (or bill or memo or similar), ask yourselves these questions:
Who sent it? We can see that the usual suspects, ACLU, PP, Women’s Law Project (ugh!), etc., sent this letter to promote boys/men competing in girls’/women’s sports. “Corinne Goodwin” and “Dena Stanley” are both men; there may be other cosplayer signatories too.
Why did they send it? They repeat myths about male participation in women’s sports. They also cite laws and court decisions which they claim do not protect female athletes in our Commonwealth. Since Your Humble Author is not an attorney, nor does she play one on TV, she does not know if the laws and court decisions say what the authors claim they say. (They may be correct; after all, PA has three bills filed to protect the integrity of female sports.)
Why did they send it NOW? This letter clearly is a response to SCOTUS’s decisions in Hecox and BPJ. This anti-woman coalition seems to be reminding or warning PIAA that they will take legal action if PIAA does the right thing and protects girls’ sports. However, notice how similar this letter is to our own letter that we sent to all PA House members on July 29, 2026. The anti-woman letter even used organizations’ logos as ours did. Doubtless this anti-woman coalition saw our letter and copied the format from us. In addition, their letter probably reached House Democrats to reinforce who actually hold the purse strings. Anti-woman organizations give lots of money to the Democratic Party.
Action Alert
Dear Readers, please contact your PA legislators and all committee members and demand that they allow full House votes on all bills to protect women’s sports — SB 1293, SB 9, and HB 158. Each of these bills has travelled its own odyssey through various House committees, and we refuse to play these political games with girls’ and women’s fairness, dignity, safety, opportunities, scholarships, awards, and recognition. Dear Readers might also want to follow these anti-woman organizations as opposition research. You can learn much from doing this. Besides, our opposition does the same thing.
If any members of legal professions can look at the citations in the anti-woman letter, please let PA4SBR know if they are correct.
Today’s Lagniappe
